Ep. 408: Polar Exploration With Renowned Adventurer Felicity Aston
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 580 Ratings
🗓️ 13 August 2018
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Felicity Aston MBE is a British Polar Explorer, author, speaker and expedition leader. In 2012, she became the first woman to ski alone across Antarctica, a journey of 1084 miles that took 59 days to complete. That expedition garnered her a Guinness World Record. She has also been elected Fellow of both the Royal Geographical Society in London and The Explorers Club in New York.
Her love for polar exploration began at the age of 23 at Rothera Research Station on the Antarctic Peninsula, where she monitored the climate as a meteorologist.
Her expeditions have taken her to places like Greenland, where she became the first British woman to cross the giant landmass, both the North and South Pole, and to leading numerous record-breaking adventures all over the world, involving all women teams.
Her story is truly inspirational and her achievements are downright amazing. Enjoy!
Her website: www.felicityaston.co.uk
Her Twitter: twitter.com/felicity_aston
Her Facebook: www.facebook.com/felicity.aston.5
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| 0:00.0 | Those women were the first women from their country to ski to the South Pole when we reached there, and two of them were the first person from their country to ski to the South Pole. |
| 0:21.6 | You're listening to the Adventure Sports podcast brought to you by 180 Tech. |
| 0:26.0 | We talk with adventurers from around the globe to bring you the inspiration and motivation |
| 0:29.8 | you need to get started in the outdoors or to keep you moving if you're already there. |
| 0:37.2 | Hello, friends, Kurt here. |
| 0:38.7 | Today I have Felicity Aston with me, and Felicity has quite the amazing resume for polar |
| 0:46.2 | exploration. |
| 0:48.0 | Back in 2000 to 2003, she was the senior meteorologist in Antarctica, and that introduced her to what the Arctic and Antarctic living was like. |
| 1:00.7 | In 2005, she did the race across Arctic Canada called the Polar Challenge. |
| 1:06.2 | In 2006, she crossed the Greenland ice sheet. |
| 1:10.0 | In 2012, she became the first person to ski across Antarctica, and I'm excited to spend quite a bit of time talking about that. |
| 1:19.6 | And more recently, she made it to the North Pole just this last April. In addition to that, she has crossed Lake Bakacca. She has completed the Marathon to Saab. |
| 1:31.5 | Wow, what a list of achievements. Welcome to the program, Felicity. Thanks very much. |
| 1:37.8 | You bet. I'm just blown away by all of these major expeditions, and I'm going to start just right there. So, Felicity, |
| 1:46.3 | how is it possible for one person to have done so many major expeditions? Yeah, I've always been |
| 1:54.0 | in a bit of a hurry, hungry for new experiences, I guess. And so, you know, when you finish one big expedition, you know, it's taken up so much of |
| 2:05.1 | your life and absorbed so much of your time and attention and energy that, you know, |
| 2:09.6 | once it's done, I guess you're looking for something else to fill that hole. |
| 2:13.5 | And so it's very easy to sort of skip from one to the other. |
| 2:19.0 | And yeah, and great fun along the way. |
| 2:22.4 | And you spend so much time in the Arctic or the Antarctic. |
| 2:27.8 | Why? |
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