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  • 5/2/2025
Ice Maiden charts the uncompromising determination of Australian Lisa Blair, who became the first woman in history to sa | dG1fVm1kS19mU1ZDbzA
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00:00Instead of potentially dying that night, because my boat's hold and it's sinking below me,
00:12I might die in the next five minutes.
00:17My name's Lisa.
00:20I aim to be the first female to sail non-stop, solo and unassisted around Antarctica.
00:25I think if anyone knew how tough it would be, he probably wouldn't do it.
00:31She's taking that massive yacht, handling it on her own.
00:35I really thought she was crazy.
00:41Any adventurer who heads up solo in a small yacht has a chance of losing their lives.
00:48My heart stopped for a second.
00:50One thing may go wrong, and then three things go wrong.
00:55Three in the morning, I get this phone call.
01:07There's a situation, the mask came down.
01:13Potentially the boat could sink.
01:14I realised the only way I could save the boat was to climb outside the safety rail.
01:24But to go out there meant that I had such a huge chance of not coming back.
01:30I thought, well, this is where she's got to give up, this is where she's got to stop.
01:38But it didn't happen.
01:40There was plenty of people telling her, you're not going to make it.
01:45I'm looking at one hell of a storm in the most dangerous isolated place in the world.
01:50See you next time.
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