Ep. 615: Skiing Across Antarctica & Polar Exploration - Felicity Aston
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2020
⏱️ 54 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.
Her website: www.felicityaston.co.uk
Her Twitter: @felicity_aston
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| 0:00.0 | ASP listeners, you can get 50% off your first order of CS Instant Coffee by using the code |
| 0:07.7 | adventure. Check them out. They've been a supporter of the show for a while, so it would really |
| 0:12.2 | mean a lot if you went and supported them. Thank you. Being in the tent was when my |
| 0:17.5 | aloneness was most apparent and when I had to be really careful about letting that |
| 0:24.0 | emotion in because when you're on the move when you're on your skis when you're it's very |
| 0:29.8 | easy to pretend that there's a team behind you this is the adventure sports podcast where we hear stories of adventure from every corner of the planet. |
| 0:40.9 | We interview all sorts of folks who are using their sport to explore the world around them |
| 0:45.2 | and give you the inspiration you need to get out there and have some fun. Hey, everybody. |
| 1:01.2 | Got a lot of good feedback from Monday's episode being a live interview. |
| 1:05.5 | That was just, you know, it just adds a whole new dynamic. |
| 1:08.0 | You're face-to-face. |
| 1:09.6 | You get to just connect a lot easier. |
| 1:12.5 | Uh, obviously the audio is a lot cleaner and that was just a lot of fun. I'm going to try to do that |
| 1:17.6 | more and more now. I have a setup that we can, uh, do interviews remotely. So I'll try to add those in |
| 1:24.7 | anytime I can. And that was just fantastic. I can't believe it took us five years to do what, |
| 1:29.8 | but now it was great. |
| 1:32.0 | But today's episode is going a ways back |
| 1:34.8 | about a year and a half to episode 408 |
| 1:37.0 | with Polar Explorer Felicity Aston. |
| 1:39.8 | And in 2012, she became the first woman to ski alone |
| 1:43.1 | across Antarctica, a journey of 184 miles, |
| 1:46.5 | took about 59 days, and it garnered a Guinness World Record. She's a fellow of both the Royal |
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