Czech woman conquers North Pole

Miluše Netolická has become the first Czech woman to conquer the North Pole. The 34-year old CEO of a Prague-based developer’s corporation was part of a small expedition which reached the North Pole on Wednesday night. A blizzard and freezing temperatures of minus forty degrees Celsius have prevented them from setting out on their return journey. A helicopter is expected to pick them up and take them to the Russian Polar station Barneo as soon as weather conditions allow. The first Czech man to conquer the North Pole was Miroslav Jakeš, who reached it in 1993; he is planning to return there for the sixth time.