VJ Michaux

V.J. Michaux, known to friends and family as ‘Ginny,’ is an author, speaker, explorer, and expert on climate change. She is a member of the Explorers Club. While serving as Chair of Conservation, she wrote the Conservation Column for the Explorers LOG. Ginny, has been a member of Al Gore’s Climate Reality Project since its early years, and has given talks to thousands of adults and school children in the USA and Mexico about climate and about her own expeditions.

Those far-flung travels have been extensive, including a ski trek for the last degree to the North Pole from the Russian side of the Arctic Ocean, while pulling a sled of supplies across broken ocean ice. She and her two companions skied much further than the direct distance to the Pole, because of unusual open water detours and the ocean currents pushing the ice south. It was early spring, and every sunlit night while sleeping, they lost precious miles on the drifting ice.

Her imagining of a future earth was honed by all of her experiences.

On one of her three forays to Antarctica, she camped in a single person tent on the interior ice cap for two weeks and skied a total of 60 miles to various sites while looking for fossils and visiting remote research camps, including the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. Ginny also accompanied Scott Pelley and the “CBS’s 60 Minutes” camera crew to Patagonia, Antarctica, and Svalbard for shoots about effects of climate change and the World Seed Bank.

For fun, she loves long distance hiking. She has walked across England in 17 days, as well as across Wales and on every continent, and completed the “100 kilometer in under 24 hours” hike on the C and O from DC to Harper’s Ferry. Her passion is leaving a habitable earth for future generations. Home is in Vail, Colorado.

These are only a few highlights. You can find out more about her experiences, expeditions, the writing of her new novel, A Tree for Antarctica and follow her blog on her website: www.VJMichaux.com.