Sitting on the porch of her vintage farmhouse that overlooks the St. Croix River, Ann Bancroft appeared more homebody than polar explorer the other day. Now 57 — fully 27 years after she became ...

Polar explorer Ann Bancroft will head to India next fall for a 1,600-mile, 60-day expedition on and along the Ganges River, to draw attention to the global water crisis. Until then, she’ll be ...

LITTLETON – Ann B. (Power) Bancroft, 71, of Littleton, died Wednesday, Oct. 2, at Emerson Hospital in Concord after a brief illness. She was the wife of Benjamin O. Bancroft, who died in 1990.

The Ann Bancroft Foundation, whose mission is to support girls to “live their dreams,” will host a full day of programming intended for middle and high school girls. Speakers include Bancroft ...

Polar explorer Ann Bancroft hikes around her Sunfish Lake community on Wednesday, April 8, 2020. Bancroft, the first woman to reach both the North Pole and the South Pole, recommends getting ...

Create an account or log in to save stories. Seven continents in ten years, that's explorer and educator Ann Bancroft's plan. She and her team of international women are working on events across ...

Arctic explorer and Minnesota native Ann Bancroft will present "Unleashing the Power of Your Dreams" during a Forum of Executive Women program 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. March 9 at the Holiday Inn ...

GOLDEN VALLEY, Minn. - Minnesota explorer Ann Bancroft is in the middle of her latest adventure; but unlike her past trips to the North and South Pole, this trip has a focus that everyone can ...

Arctic explorer and author Ann Bancroft is joined by MPR News reporter Catharine Richert in the woods near Bancroft's home not far from Stillwater, Minn. on Feb. 2. They used shorter, wider skis ...

And they did." Horscroft, 15, organized this soccer clinic — a project toward earning her Girl Scouts Gold Award — with the help of a grant from the Ann Bancroft Foundation. The foundation ...