Woman Skis Solo Across Antarctica

British adventurer Felicity Aston became the first woman to ski across Antarctica today, finishing a 59-day, 1,084-mile trek across the continent, the AP reports. She made the trip using only her own muscle power, something no person traveling alone has ever done—though a couple managed it once. She started out at the Leverett Glacier on Nov. 25, and wound up declaring success at the Hercules Inlet, where she huddled in a tent to avoid a bout of bad weather and await a plane that would return her to a base camp.

"It's all a little bit overwhelming. After days and days to get here, I seem to have arrived all in a rush. I don't really feel prepared for it," she said in a phone call broadcast online. "It feels amazing to be finished and yet overwhelmingly sad that it's over at the same time." (More Felicity Aston stories.)