On many other boating trips, when her son and daughter were very young, she covered distances almost as long, with both of them. In a small open boat, equipped with a Yamaha 100hp outboard engine, she traveled 4,000km, through storms and drifting ice, from Nuuk to Siorapaluk, the world’s northernmost Inuit village, and back, with her young son onboard. A nurse, a single Inuit mother, and a polar explorer, she redefined the meaning of exploration.Ī single Inuit mother, Pia Larsen, a nurse in Nuuk, is Greenland’s lone contemporary female polar explorer.
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