“Everybody thought I was a bit crazy,” said the Elstree mother-of-four, who has to date raised £86,000 for Kisharon from the challenge. “I still have to pinch myself to believe it really happened.”
Dr Jacobson has a background in long distance running. At the age of 19, she took part in the 56-mile Comrades Marathon in her native South Africa. She has since run marathons in London, New York, Paris and Prague and celebrated her 40th birthday by running along the Great Wall of China. But a back problem curtailed her running in subsequent years.
She flew to Chile last month, from where she and 49 other participants travelled on to the Union Glacier in Antarctica.
“We were at the mercy of the environment, braving temperatures ranging from a ‘pleasant’ minus 15 to minus 35 degrees Celsius and running against 30 knot winds,” she said.
