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, and served as Chair of Conservation. When in office, she wrote the Conservation Column for The Explorers Log.  Ginny, became a member of Al Gore’s Climate Reality Project in its early years, and has given talks to thousands of adults and school children across the USA and in Mexico about climate change and about her own expeditions related to climate.

Those climate travels have been extensive, including a ski trek of the last degree to the North Pole from the Russian side of the Arctic Ocean, while pulling a sled of supplies over broken ocean ice. She and her two companions skied much further than the direct line distance to the Pole, due to unusual open water detours and the backward effect of ocean currents. Every night while sleeping, they lost precious miles on the drifting ice.

On one of her three forays to Antarctica, she camped in a single person tent atop 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 on-site shoots about the effects of climate change and the World Seed Bank.

For fun, she enjoys long distance hiking. She hiked across England with three friends in 17 days. She also has hiked north to south across Wales and on every continent.  Her passion is helping to leave a habitable earth for future generations. Home is in Vail, Colorado.

These are only a few highlights. You can learn more about her trips and expeditions, as well as about her new novel by checking in here and by reading her blog, which she will post weekly.  Please share this site with your friends, and enjoy reading A Tree for Antarctica!