Ann Bancroft

I have a whole, you know, pocket full of dreams I want to achieve. I don't know in which order they're going to fall. ”

A life lesson for me is, how do you muster the courage to take on a new risk? Whether it's starting up a business or taking on a new project or expedition. I think the risks that we take are all relative to the risk-taker. ”

Film critics said I gave a voice to the fear we all have: that we'll reach a certain point in our lives, look around and realize that all the things we said we'd do and become will never come to be - and that we're ordinary. ”

Skydiving is something I've never done! And I am very excited to take the leap with a community of like-minded courageous women. ”

Everyone in my family is a risk taker in his or her own way. ”

This journey is not over. Our education initiatives have so much momentum, and we're committed to sharing even more stories from the Arctic when we return. ”

I have an opportunity now with some of the projects I've done, i.e. the North Pole and the South Pole, to speak to a larger audience and talk about things that have nothing to do with physical education or special ed. ”

Water links us all as human beings. Everyone needs water, and we all have challenges about it, no matter where we live. Yet even in the U.S., people aren't aware of problems facing water. ”

My first expedition was at about the age of eight. ”