Adventure lover Kirsty in daring voyage to Antarct

H UGE swathes of crunch and crack as boat battles through frozen Antarctic was

The small crew onboard i stantly combating strong w and biting sub-zero tem tures, but the eerie silence b them a strange calm.

Those were the condi faced by Dundee architect K Maguire as she took part i adventure of a lifetime.

And despite the thre blizzards, fatal plunges crevices and being strand glaciers, the 42-year-old every minute of the trip.

She had the opportuni meet wildlife up close whales diving under their and penguins and seals also m ing their presence felt.

And she also had the thrill of following in the footsteps of some of Dundee’s forefathers and their whaling and sailing voyages.

Kirsty, who runs her own ecoarchitect’s firm at Meadow Mill, has previously embarked on other adventures to Greenland and northern Norway, where there was a constant threat from polar bears. came up when a lot of my contracts came to an end.

“So, I just thought if I don’t do it now then I might not get the chance for a while. It’s a busy architect’s practice, but this was a window of opportunity.

“At first I sailed to northern Norway with some friends and started last June around Svalbard.

“The journey also took in going over the Arctic Circle and after adventure tookk a bbizarre, but fortunate twist when she was at the end of her journey at Ushuaia – the southernmost tip of Argentina nicknamed “The End of the World”.

She said: “I got a message from a guy who organises trips like mine who said there was one