K A T H I N K A

She’s always been an outdoorsy girl. Started running sled dogs at 11. While other kids were busy with dance classes or piano lessons, she was out yelling “gee” and “haw” into the wind.

By 18, she had moved to Alaska, where she spent five years mushing dogs and working as a deckhand on commercial fishing boats. (Pro tip: nothing teaches you about character like untangling fishing lines in sideways snow-)

Eventually, (her mother’s words ;-), she returned home to Norway and had two amazing daughters while she still kept living a life full of adventure — just with small hiking boots tagging along in her wake.

Now they’re grown up and off chasing their own dreams: the oldest, Amalie, is a musical theatre star-in-the-making, while the youngest, Emma, is aiming to be a polar explorer. And lucky Kathinka—she gets to come along for the ride!

This winter, Emma and Kathinka are teaming up for the ultimate mother-daughter bonding trip: a 70-day ski-and-kite expedition in Antarctica. It’ll be cold, it’ll long, and mind out words—it’s exactly as epic as it sounds.

Here’s what she is dead set on having learned from all these years out in the wild: ‘always find the fun, celebrate the weird little wins (like dry socks!), and don’t forget to laugh—even when your eyelashes are frozen together.’