The 21-year-old Norwegian Karen Kyllesø has reached the South Pole after 54 days and 1,130 kilometers alone on skis. She is thus the youngest to date to achieve this and beats the performance of 27-year-old Matthieu Tordeur.
Her achievement is confirmed by Norwegian media by father Håkon Kyllesø and mentor Lars Ebbesen. Norway's Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre is lyrical and describes the whole thing as a national feat. He says he is deeply impressed.
She follows in the footsteps of the greatest polar explorers and writes history, he says to VG.
21 years ago, roughly when Karen Kyllesø was born, Norwegian Liv Arnesen became the first woman to make a solo trip to the South Pole.
Karen is very experienced, says Arnesen to VG about her younger polar explorer colleague who gained attention already at the age of 15 when she skied across Greenland.
In the end (read: of the stretch), the weather has been very bad, but she is smart and has done it wisely, says Arnesen.
