Alison Levine

Alison Levine

Polar Explorer; Mountaineer; Bestselling Author

Alison Levine has climbed the highest peak on every continent, served as the team captain of the first American Women’s Everest Expedition and skied across the Arctic Circle to the geographic North Pole. In January 2008, she made history as the first American to follow a remote route across west Antarctica for 600 miles to the South Pole. Her success in extreme environments is noteworthy given she had three heart surgeries and suffers from a neurological disease that causes the arteries that feed her fingers and toes to collapse in cold weather, leaving her at extreme risk for frostbite.

Levine spent four years as an adjunct professor at the United States Military Academy at West Point, where she focused on leading teams in extreme environments. She is the author of the New York Times bestseller “On the Edge.”