Helen Thayer

Helen Thayer (née "Nicholson;" born 12 November 1937) is a New Zealand-born explorer who now lives in the United States.
At 50, she became the first woman to travel solo to the magnetic North Pole, pulling her own sled without resupply. She travelled on foot, with no outside help.
Thayer is the author of ' and "Trekking the Gobi: Desert of Dreams and Despair."
She has received the Northwest Explorer's Club's Vancouver Award, and the Robert Henning Award from the Alaskan Geographic Alliance for exploration and education.
Awards.
Thayer was honored by the White House and the National Geographic Society, and named "One of the Great Explorers of the 20th Century" by National Geographic and NPR. She was also inducted into the Snohomish County, Washington Sports Hall of Fame.