An Ottawa woman who escaped serious injury after falling into an icy crevasse in Antarctica is continuing on her solo trek to the South Pole.

Meagan McGrath, shown during a successful climb to the summit of Mount Everest in 2007, has resumed her solo journey to the South Pole. (Science North/Sudbury Star/Canadian Press)

Meagan McGrath set out Monday from Patriot Hills, a commercially owned base camp in the continent, to resume her ambitious journey, which was put on hold for four days after her fall.

McGrath was attempting to ski or walk solo the 1,100-kilometre distance from Hercules Point on Antarctica's coast to the South Pole.

But On Dec 3, just two days into her expedition, McGrath fell down a crevasse, and remained there for eight hours until a rescue crew from Patriot Hills pulled her out of fissure.

McGrath sustained only bruised ribs in the ordeal, but took a couple of days to think about whether she was mentally and physically fit to continue.

"The decision [to continue] was made very soundly. I didn't call the outside world very much because I wanted to focus on what was the right thing to do, safety-wise," McGrath said in a Sunday statement.

"I'm very sure about this decision. I'm very comfortable with it."

She expects the trip to take 40 days.

McGrath, an aerospace engineer with the Canadian military, has successfully taken on a number of other challenging expeditions, including a climb to the summit of Mount Everest and a trek to the North Pole.