Absolutely wild claim considering the centuries (millennia?) of indigenous migration in the area…
Yeah, I fully agree with them here, it is increadibly insulting.
She could simply have celebrated the achievement of having done the solo trek at all, or she could have bragged a bit more while still being somewhat respectful by saying that she was the first British woman to do the solo trek, that would still acknowledge the Inuit population and their achievements as well.
But no, she just had to be the FIRST EVER woman to do this in all of history.
Hey now she may not even be the first British woman, what with hundreds of years of British colonial history in the region. Also the Norse Greenlander colony was documented in the Sagas as having Celts pissing about during some of the early Vinland expeditions and those became so common later on that they stopped being recorded because it was basically a grocery run.
Agree great an achievement now tainted by a narcissistic claim. I notice her insta comments are turned off so I guess she has had some backlash. She should have been respectful of the locals and who else has done this.
Kabloona said she’s tired of seeing people heading to the North with a colonial attitude about exploring the region — and wants an apology from Hempleman-Adams.
“We go and do the things that you’re calling exploring and adventuring … and [for us] it’s just regular life,” she said.
Fucking right. That’s so insulting.
TL;DR: it’s a traverse of Baffin Island in the same way going from Liverpool to Hull would be a traverse of Great Britain
She’s obviously not the first one to do it
It’s a very unimpressive achievement, being a 97km hike. Rated 3/4 in difficulty by commercial standards, meaning moderate for experienced hikers.
