Wendy Malan

Wendy trained as a classical ballet dancer and teacher at the University of Cape Town. After dancing professionally for ten years, she lectured at the same university before setting out on her own. She has run her own successful exercise studio and produced and choreographed several ballets for the Cape Youth Ballet. Together with her oceanographer husband she has taken part in research cruises off the West Coast of Southern Africa. Her first visit to the Antarctic was in 2003, aboard the SA Agulhas, supervising a group of scholars who accompanied the vessel on a relief cruise to Queen Maud Land. She has worked on small expedition cruise ships all over the world, at first as a zodiac driver and then as Assistant Expedition Leader or Assistant Cruise Director.