The first women at the South Pole were Pam Young, Jean Pearson, Lois Jones, Eileen McSaveney, Kay Lindsay and Terry Tickhill in November 1969.
The six women named above were flown in by the USA Navy. The first women to reach the Pole overland was Victoria E. Murden and Shirley Metz. (January 17, 1989).
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Maxime Edgard Chaya was the first Arab to reach the North Pole on April 25, 2009. He has also reached the South pole and the summit of Mount Everest, and also the Seven Summits.Elham Al Qasimi became the first Arab woman to reach the North pole on April 23, 2010.
he dicovered that he was not first to reach the south pole.
This question can be answered in two ways. In 1954, Louise Boyd privately chartered a DC-4 and crew to fly her over the North Pole. Which made her the first woman to be flown over a pole. Or In 1971, Sheilia Scott flew her single-engined Piper Comanche registered G-ATOY and named Myth Too, single handedly over the North Pole, Making her the first woman to fly over the North Pole.
On the 4th of January 1958 the New Zealand component of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition reached the South Pole. They were led by Edmund Hillary and became the first party to reach the South Pole overland since Robert Falcon Scott's ill-fated expedition.
James Cook never saw the South Pole. Pack ice and the fact that his sails kept freezing up stopped him from even reaching the Antarctic continent, let alone the theoretical point known as the South Pole. Cook was the first European to cross the Antarctic Circle, but he did not reach the South pole.