Brilliant talk on Antarctica
December 19 update
Wendy Searle has been forced to end her challenge to break the female South Pole world speed record, solo, unsupported and unassisted. Read more here.
credit Richard Grassie
Penallt resident Wendy Searle can often be seen pulling a large tyre around the village and, as of last Thursday evening at Pelham Hall, we now know why! A nicely packed bar area heard her talk of her experiences leading up to a successful solo and unsupported ski trek to the South Pole in 2020 and of her plans to repeat this later this year, but this time in an attempt on the women’s record for this coldest of challenges.
The BBC website recently promoted this new challenge thus:
“Wendy Searle, 44, from Penallt, Monmouthshire, completed the 715-mile (1,150km) trek in 2019-2020, and hopes to do it in record time this year.
"I want to try and go a little bit faster and really put out there that I'm aiming for the record," she said. It's going to be a massive challenge, that's for sure."
Wendy wanted to give the talk in order to raise money for charity and a collection afterwards raised £330 to be split evenly between the Youth Adventure Trust and the Penallt Babington Educational Trust.
Wendy’s current starting date is December 5th this year and you will be able to follow Wendy’s progress via her expedition webpage, due to be launched on November 10th via the Shackleton website.
