FlyZolo Update - Day 43
Switch on your sound and listen to Zara talking over the radios...

Zara has arrived in #Nome, #Alaska and is now almost half-way! Unfortunately it was not possible to cross the #BeringStraits anymore. Because of the weather delays and technical issues, it took her longer to get there and now her visa for Russia has expired. So, it is again wait and see. 🙃😔✈

Thank you Dumitru Marian for making this stunning video of Zara's flight to #Anchorage taking her past the Dora Keen Mountain Range.

Dora Keen was the first woman to mountaineer in Alaska in 1911 and pioneered some of Alaska's toughest mountain routes. Born in 1871 in Philadelphia, she had already impressed the climbing world long before this. Among the world’s first female climbers, she had summited peaks in Ecuador, Norway, and Canada’s Selkirks. In 1909 and 1910, in her late thirties, she spent two months in the high Alps, climbing Mount Blanc, the Matterhorn, and eight others. She wrote about her climbs in popular magazines such as Harpers and the Saturday Evening Post.

Just like Dora Keen, Zara is trying to break through the clouds by doing something that is not only incredibly difficult, but in doing so is also #closingthegap between men and women.

Thank you Alaska Airmen's Association for all your help!

#Stemgirls #femaleengineers #breakingthroughtheclouds #CloseTheDreamGap #seeitbeit #SeeItBeItStemIt #aviatrix #femalepilot

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