A Better Journey in Life
A 76-year-old lung cancer survivor from Harlem, Barbara Hillary, is setting out on a last degree North Pole expedition next month (where one flies in and skies the last degree of latitude, or 60 nautical miles).
"My father died when I was one. I was raised by a Black woman in Harlem who had no resources except a determination to not let anything stop her from being a role model of a value system that held high respect for one’s parents and other adults. When I reflect, these where hard times, yet we never felt poor. I believe mental poverty is a self affected condition that feeds upon it self. If I have emerged as person of some merit then I am indebted to my mother who paved a very rough road to enable me to have a better journey in life."
— Filed under Other expeditions