In 1997, a group of twenty women set out to become the world’s first all female expedition to the North Pole. Sue and Victoria were surprised to find themselves amongst them.

En route to the most isolated and forbidding regions of the globe and facing the bitterest hardships, both were seeking a new beginning. For Sue these were the first steps following treatment for breast cancer. For Victoria, abandoning the security of her career was the sole way to test her self-belief.