BARBARA IN THE PRESS
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Good Day NY, FoxTV- March 23, 2011 .. Her most recent trip was to the South Pole in January. She flew to Chile and then to the South Pole, accompanied by a doctor. She stayed in the base camp for one week with a team of guides. She took day trips from base camp. She slept in a tent. Temperatures at night were 25 degrees below zero .. |
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New York Post- March 21, 2011 .. Hillary noted that the landscape was a wonder of huge white mountains and shifting blue-gray shadows that responded to the sun circling the sky -- and her excitement at being there made it hard to heed the advice of the expedition's doctor, who warned her about the thin air at 9,300 feet above sea level .. |
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NY1- March 17, 2011 .. Barbara Hillary is a woman on the move. After trekking to both
ends of the earth, the 79-year-old explorer and resident of Rockaway,
Queens. Hillary is shaping up for her next adventure and has no plans
to slow down. |
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Good Morning America- 11/4/10 Barbara talks with GMA about early cancer screening and her upcoming Spouth Pole expedition to set a world record as the first African-American woman to reach both Poles |
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Outdoor Afro Podcast Interview 5/18/09 |
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Black woman reaches North Pole- CNN Interview
5/18/09 |
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I Know a Woman Like That
screens at Phoenix Film Festival 4/4/09 |
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I Know a Woman Like That- Interview with Elaine Madsen Athlete Barbara Hillary's interview is a telling moment in the new feature length documentary "I Know a Woman Like That" being produced by Oscar Nominee Virginia Madsen's Title IX Productions. Scheduled for theatrical release later this year, it is being directed by Emmy Award winner Elaine Madsen. The documentary celebrates women in the upper decades of their lives who did not settle for society's idea of what life should be-- ever. While hey did not have the advantage of a social revolution to give them the ghost of a level playing field when they chose to spend their skills in the world, like Barbara Hillary, they did it anyway. |
| 'Fear makes
you more careful'- CNN.com Interview |
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Interview: Pioneering Black Woman Proves Dreams Have
No Expiry Date |
| On Top of the World Barbara Hillary, a retired nurse from New York City, believes that life has many chapters and the trick is to know what ta take with yo ufrom one chapter to the next. At age 75, Hillary has lived many chapters in her own life, including her nursing career, her work as a commuity activist, her years as a cancer survivor, and, most recently, as the first African-American woman and one of the oldest people ever to travel to the North Pole. Click here for more |
| The Arctic's Grande Dame Barbara Hillary is a lot of things - and now she can add to the list first African-American woman to reach the North Pole. Here she talks to Women's Adventure about her mother's influence, a woman's right to adventure, and that epic trip. |
| Lessons from the North Pole On Nov. 27th, former nurse educator and Arctic adventurer Barbara Hillary, MPS, accepted the “Spirit of America” award at the National Recreation Vehicle Trade show in Louisville, Ky. Click here for more |
| Barbara Hillary: An Interview by Growing Bolder Barbara Hillary is a 75-year-old cancer
survivor who recently became the first black woman to reach the North
Pole. The Harlem native says when she learned a black man had reached
the top of the world but a woman hadn't, she decided to change that fact.
She talked to Growing Bolder about her inspiring journey and her life
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True Northby Lauren Collins March 26, 2007 The American explorer Robert Peary reached the North Pole on April 6, 1909. With him were four Eskimos— Oatah, Egingwah, Seegloo, and Ookeah—and Matthew Henson, an African-American guide. To Barbara Hillary, Henson is both a hero and a goad. Hillary is seventy-five, and a resident of Arverne, Queens. On April 20th, she will disembark from the Borneo ice camp, towing a fifty-pound sled and the wish to become the first African-American woman on record to set foot on the top of the world... Click here for more |
75-year-old cancer survivor skis to North PoleBy MEGHAN BARR Barbara Hillary, 75, didn't know how to ski when she decided to ski to the North Pole. She took skiing lessons and hired a personal trainer, who determined she was fit for the trip. NEW YORK -- The bone-numbing trek to the North Pole is riddled with enough perils to make a seasoned explorer quake: Frostbite threatens, polar bears loom and the ice is constantly shifting beneath frozen feet...More-> |
Black woman, 75, skis to North Pole and marks a firstBy ROSE RUSSELL SAY the health-care worker you met recently is about to retire. "Have a nice life," you might tell him or her, thinking travel or some other hobby will fill the time until the inevitable...More-> |
Cancer survivor, 75, skis to North PoleNEW YORK (AP) — The bone-numbing trek to the North Pole is riddled with enough perils to make a seasoned explorer quake: Frostbite threatens, polar bears loom and the ice is constantly shifting beneath frozen feet...More-> |
Northern Outfitters75 year old Barbara Hillary well prepared for her trip to the North Pole “Welcome to the world of the High Arctic, The North
Pole and ‘Adventure by Hollywood.” That's the way Barbara
Hillary begins the amazing story of her Arctic experience, as she tells
it in her own exuberant style. |
The Doctor Weighs InBarbara Hillary- – a new kind of oldster There is a great story in the SF Chronicle about a woman named Barbara Hillary. The headline of the Chronicle proclaims “Black woman reaches goal- – North Pole.” But to me the real story here is that Hillary is a 75 year old lung cancer survivor who hired a personal trainer and learned to ski so that she could go to the North Pole. When I was a kid I thought being 65 meant getting a Barcalounger and watching the soaps. Now, grammas and grampas are engaging in adventures previously thought to be the purview of the young and crazy....More-> |
Barbara Hillary- Triumph at the
top of the world
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| Arverne woman, 75, in historic Pole feat One Hillary's ascent has already landed her in Capitol Hill, and another's will get her there soon..... More-> |
| Northern Exposure Barbara Hillary, 75, finds some obstacles in her path to become the first African-American woman to reach the North Pole. More-> |