Photo from Bancroft Arneson Expedition. Used with permission. Each woman will pull her own sled. Ann and Liv will be pulling their sleds while on cross-country skis. When the wind is just right, they will use specially designed parasails to pull them across the snow and ice.
Parasails are similar to parachutes only they are elliptical or oval-shaped instead of round.
These specially designed parasails will be used to pull them across the ice while they are on cross-country skis without pulling them up into the air. Due to the severe weather conditions, Ann and Liv have only about 100 days of good weather to cover over 2400 miles on skis pulling sleds weighing about 250 pounds. So they have to travel a long way every day. Their main goal is to cross Antarctica safely and successfully. The expedition will begin sometime in November 2000 and will finish in February of 2001.