// People have been trekking to the South Pole for over 100 years, so how come it's taken this long for a woman of colour to do so? //
I don’t know, but the South Pole is just ‘there’ isn’t it.. Nobody is stopping anybody going there if they have the motivation.
She isn’t the first woman of colour to go there but she was the first to make a solo trek, of which the first woman (of no colour) to do that was in 1994. I just can’t imagine that there was some massive racial inequality in solo skiing that has somehow recently been sorted out.