In the summer of 2018, Clarissa Black and her hiking partner, Leigh Swansborough, became the first women to walk to the Arctic Ocean. Here are some of the news storys that covered their journey.
"In its calmer moments, Bennett Lake, located in the southwest corner of Canada’s Yukon Territory, is a placid pool of aquamarine. When one of the area’s notorious storms blows in, however, its waters roil with a certain violence."
" When travellers Clarissa Black and Leigh Swansborough , met Inuvik's Olav Falsnes on the Dempster Highway, they had already experienced the kindness of Northerners - but not in the way they were about to."
"Two hikers on an epic adventure, across the Yukon to the Arctic Ocean have finally made it."
"Two adventurers first had their gear stolen, then their custom-built cart never arrived."
"Australian adventurer Leigh Swansborough said she had just told someone in Whitehorse on Thursday that "the only thing that the Yukon could steal from me was my heart. She was wrong."