BKS Webinar: Rosie Stancer – The Aralkum Expedition

On February 12th explorer Rosie Stancer will present an illustrated webinar on her expedition across a Kazakhstan desert – the Aralkum. BKS Education Group Chairmnan - David Hardy, will act as a moderator.

Rosie has been an accomplished explorer since 1996, since which she has embarked on a series of major polar and ice expeditions. She has achieved several world records  including a speed-breaking record ski-ing solo and unsupported to the geographic South Pole, sledge-hauling over the frozen Siberian Lake Baikal from west to south,and north and east. She currently still holds the record for ski-ing farthest as a lone woman to the North Pole.

In 2021 she turned to the deserts, and the Aralkum. Supported by the British Kazakh Society Rosie and her colleague Pom Oliver trekked across the Aralkum desert – the seabed once occupied by the Aral Sea.  One of the planet’s youngest deserts, it…