The third volume of the collected works of Vasily Peskov, a famous journalist of Komsomolskaya Pravda, writer and TV presenter, includes not only his stories about nature, but also reports about the first cosmonauts of our country. And among them is about the world’s first female cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova.  Here you will read the beginning of a fascinating story from Vasily Mikhailovich’s business trip to Antarctica, then few reporters could have been on such a trip to the South Pole of the planet.