Dixie Dansercoer

Who is Dixie Dansercoer?

Dixie Dansercoer is an explorer, endurance athlete and photographer.

As a student, he spent a year in Moscow, Idaho, United States with AFS Intercultural Programs in 1980.

He has held records or won prizes for high altitude mountain biking, windsurfing, ultramarathon running and expedition film-making. In 1997-8, he made a record-breaking crossing of Antarctica with Alain Hubert.

In 2006, the European Space Agency commissioned Hubert and him to measure snow cover in the Arctic so that they could calibrate measurements taken with the CryoSat 2 satellite. The two left Arctic Cape, Siberia on 1 March 2007. They reached the North Pole after 55 days and Greenland in another 51 days, the first time anyone had walked from Siberia to Greenland.