Monica Kristensen Solås

Monica Kristensen Solås, born June 30, 1950 (1950-06-30) (age 61), is a Norwegian glaciologist, meteorologist, polar explorer and crime novelist. She was born in Torsby, Sweden, of Swedish/Norwegian parents, and moved as a child to Kongsvinger in Norway.^[1]

She is a physics graduate of the University of Tromsø, and has taken part in many expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctic. In 1986–1987 she was leader of an expedition to follow Roald Amundsen’s route to the South Pole, but was forced to turn back at 86 degrees south. A further expedition in 1993 set out with, among other aims, the intention of finding Amundsen’s tent at the South Pole, but was abandoned when expedition member Jostein Helgestad was killed in a fall into a crevasse.^[2]

She later worked in northern Norway and on Svalbard, and in January 2004 she became general secretary of Redningsselskapet (Norsk Selskab til Skibbrudnes Redning – the Norwegian Society for Rescue at Sea), a post she held until November 2005.^[1]

Solås is the author of many books, including Mot 90 Grader Syd (Towards 90 Degrees South) (1987).^[3]

References

1. ^ ^{a b} "Monica Kristensen Solås". Norsk Polarhistorie. http://www.polarhistorie.no/personer/Kristensen%20Solas. Retrieved 2009-06-08. 
2. ^ "Pole death". The Independent. December 1993. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/pole-death-1469724.html. Retrieved 2009-06-08. 
3. ^ Kristensen, Monica (1987). Mot 90 Grader Syd. Grøndahl. ISBN 9788250408913. 

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