Midwinter Lecture "The Beauty and Challenges of Working in Antarctica"

Kimber spent 15 seasons working in Antarctica.  There’s a saying on that continent: “You go to Antarctica the first time for the experience. The second time for the money.  And the third time because you don’t fit in anywhere else anymore.”  I don’t think that is exactly right, but there are nuggets of truth there.  I found my tribe there – the curious, the travelers, the nerds, the out-of-the-box thinkers.  I found the corporate mentality that reaches its ugly tentacles to the bottom of the world.  I mainly found pretty typical jobs in a very exotic location.  Come enjoy my tales of the good, the bad, and the mundane from my experience working on “The Ice.” Kimber grew up as a timid, young Goshen girl with no vision of living anything but the very ordinary type of Midwestern life. Yet spent her early 20s nannying in Manhattan, in her twenties working in Portland, Oregon, her early 30s guiding various outdoor jobs including snorkeling in Alaska, kayaking. And white water rafting.  And for 15 seasons, she worked in Antarctica.