Bernice Notenboom

Bernice Notenboom (born 1 June 1962, in Rotterdam) is a Dutch journalist and film producer, described in several sources as a "professional adventuress" on account of her well publicised expeditions to some of the most environmentally stressed corners of our planet.

In January 2008 she hit the headlines in the Netherlands as the first Dutch woman to travel to the South Pole on skis, an enterprise which involved a ski-trek of several hundred kilometers (>500 miles).

As a child she fell in love with the mountains during annual family holidays in the Swiss Alps from which, as she later confessed to an interviewer, she always returned to the flatness of her homeland "with ... a heavy heart".

[10] Working in a seasonal business and being her own boss meant she was able to make plenty of time for "expeditions" to wild places, mostly involving mountains.

[3][11] During her time in Utah, Bernice Notenboom also acquired a husband: their union broke up in response to her energetic pursuit of her adventurous expeditions ("... spannende expedities"), however.

[13]) The Mount Everest expedition provided a basis for her film "Himalaya Alert", directed by Mark Verkerk, which draws attention to the so-called Asian brown cloud phenomenon, was transmitted by the Buddhist Broadcasting Foundation ("Boeddhistische Omroep Stichting" / BOS).

The series addressed the issue of ecosystem collapses being triggered by temperature increases of just a few degrees: it was broadcast on mainstream television channels in a number of European countries and in North America.

[20] The film was shewn during the London meeting of the International Maritime Organization to influence the decision to reduce the sulphur percentages in shipping fuel.