Tori Murden Biography - Early Challenges, Relentless Competitor, A Second Attempt, An Unprecedented Achievement, Chronology, Awards And Accomplishments - CONTACT INFORMATION
american woman transatlantic
1963-
American transatlantic rower
Tori Murden's list of firsts is remarkably disparate, involving unprecedented accomplishments in transatlantic rowing, mountain climbing and cross country skiing. In 1988, she became the first woman and first American to reach the top of Antarctica's Lewis Nunatuk Summit. The following year, she became the first woman and first American to ski to the geographic South Pole. A decade later, in an astonishing three-month quest, she became the first woman and first American to row across the Atlantic Ocean singlehandedly. "It is my own particular flaw," Murden once said, "that I am best able to find what it means to be a human being when I'm off alone in some hostile place."
CONTACT INFORMATION
Email: tori@adept.net.
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Murden's family moved thirteen times when she was a child. The youngest of three children, she was regularly drawn into fistfights in defense of her mentally handicapped brother, Lamar. "The things that happened to me were nothing compared to the things that happened to Lamar," Murden told Women's Sports & Fitness magazine. "I learned how invisible a perso…
In 1989, Murden took off three months from her divinity studies at Harvard to join the International South Pole Overland Expedition. She was its youngest member. As part of a nine-member team, she skied cross-country 750 miles in fifty days to the geographic South Pole—the first woman and first American to do so. A couple years later, Murden trained intensely to earn a spot on the 1992 U.S.…
Sector Sport Watches, an Italian company, was sponsoring French rower Peggy Bouchet's solo attempt to cross the Atlantic in early 1998 when they contacted Murden. Bouchet was traveling westward from the Canaries; Sector wanted to back Murden in an attempt to cross the North Atlantic from west to east—a much longer, more dangerous route. "Eager to crack the U.S. market, Sector …
Bouchet also had failed in her attempted crossing, so the elusive record was still to be claimed. On September 13, 1999, a year after she eluded death in the North Atlantic, Murden set out again. This time, however, she would travel the safer east-to-west route from the Canary Islands to the West Indies. For two months, her odyssey went smoothly. By mid-November, she was 430 miles from Guadeloupe,…
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over 4 years ago
Tori came and spoke to the faculty and staff at my college today and she did finish her book. It's called "A Pearl in the Storm". It's not available until April but you can pre-order it on Amazon.
over 4 years ago
Im part of the team that braught the American Pearl home from Miami. It was a great honor to have been just a small part of the experience of Tori and Pearl. Her husband is a great person as well.I would like to know if Tori ever finised her book.And if so what the name of it is. Thank you
Mary Cornett Cox