First woman to ski to the South Pole

Shirley Metz and Victoria "Tori" Murden (both USA) were the first women to reach the South Pole overland. They did so with nine other team members of the South Pole International Overland Expedition using skis and with the support of snowmobiles and resupplies. They departed from Hercules Inlet off the Ronne Ice Shelf on 27 November 1988 and reached the South Pole on 17 January 1989.

The expedition was the first privately funded ski expedition to the South Pole.

Murden also became the first woman to row an ocean solo when she crossed the Atlantic from Tenerife in Spain's Canary Islands to the Caribbean islands of Guadeloupe in 1999.