After sailing from Montevideo, Uruguay on 12 December 1991, they eventually were able to establish a five-hut base named Blaenga (Norwegian for "blue field) at 77.5°S-34.2°W beginning on 2 January 1992.
[3][4] A further expedition in late December 1993 set out with, among other aims, the intention of finding Amundsen’s tent at the South Pole, and to retrieve it for display at the 1994 Winter Olympic Games in Norway.
Monica was not on that traverse—she may have already been at the South Pole or en route from Punta Arenas via Patriot Hills Base Camp by Adventure Network International (ANI) (now Antarctic Logistics & Expeditions).
Isaksen, who had sustained concussion and bruising after falling into a crevasse, was flown to McMurdo with the rescue team, and thence to Christchurch, NZ for medical treatment by the National Science Foundation.
[5][6][7][8][9] She later worked in northern Norway and on Svalbard, and in January 2004 she became general secretary of Redningsselskapet (Norsk Selskab til Skibbrudnes Redning – the Norwegian Society for Rescue at Sea), a post she held until November 2005.