Tina Sjögren
Tina Sjögren is the first woman to have completed the Three Poles Challenge − climbing Mount Everest and going to the North and South poles − in 2002.
She was borne in Prague, Czechoslovakia, on 26 May 1959, and left the country 9 years old as a political refugee. She ended up in Sweden, where she married the Swede Tom Sjögren in 1983. The couple emigrated to New York City in 1996.
In 1999, Tina and Tom Sjögren (known as T&T) climbed Mount Everest, and then broke the record of high altitude broadcasting.
In November 2002, they were the first to broadcast live pictures and sounds from the Antarctic ice cap. On February 2, 2002, they reached the South Pole after 63 days of skiing. On 29 May 2002, just four months after having returned from Antarctica, they reached the North Pole completely autonomously at record speed (118 days), and also transmitted the first ever live broadcast of satellite images and sounds from the Arctic pack ice.
Sources
- There Was A ‘Glass’ Before Google Came Along, And It Was Used In Antarctica In 2001, on Techcrunch
- Here's An Early Version Of Google Glass From 2001 Using Windows 98, on Business Insider
- Taking Technology to Extremes, on New York Times
- U.S. gains two new adventurers at naturalization ceremony in Oakland, on Mercury News
- How Humans Will Evolve on Multigenerational Space Exploration Missions, on Scientific American
- 2013 International Space Development Conference in San Diego (featured speakers)
- Upload Every Mountain, on Wired Mag
- Married Couple Conquers All "Three" Poles, on National Geographic News
- Sjogren Tom & Tina, on ExploraPoles
