Ep. 989: First Women to Solo Ski Across Antarctica - Revisited - Felicity Aston
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 580 Ratings
🗓️ 14 December 2023
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Originally aired Aug 13, 2018
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.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, folks, welcome to the Adventure Sports podcast. |
| 0:23.4 | This episode is going back to 2018, by the way. |
| 0:26.6 | I'm your host, Mason. |
| 0:28.1 | Today I'm not hosted, though. |
| 0:29.6 | This is right before I became a host back to 2018. |
| 0:33.5 | Felicity Aston is a all-timer, huge adventure name all throughout the UK. |
| 0:39.9 | Very well known has done tons of adventures, written almost half a dozen books now. |
| 0:45.8 | Frankly, we need to have her back on to talk about some of her adventures since becoming the first woman to ski alone across Antarctica. |
| 0:53.0 | A journey of a thousand miles. |
| 0:55.2 | Took almost 60 days to complete. That is nuts. And she got a Guinness World Record. So tons of stuff. |
| 1:01.1 | Royal Geographic Society, the Explorers Club, she is a rock star. And if you haven't listened to Monday's |
| 1:07.3 | episode with Greg Morrissey, which is a brand new episode, please do that, all about |
| 1:11.4 | investing into the next generation of adventurers also, you know, working with the Explorers |
| 1:16.8 | Club a lot. If you haven't noticed our episodes are getting dangerously close to a thousand episodes. |
| 1:24.1 | And you might be thinking, you know, what do we have in store for a thousand? Well, we do have something planned. We're going to have an amazing guess. We're going to have some |
| 1:30.9 | extra stuff. We're going to have some announcements. But ahead of that, we also have some really big |
| 1:35.6 | goals for 2024. I want to greatly increase our listenership, but I'm going to need your help to do that. |
| 1:41.1 | We have been played and shared with literally millions of people |
| 1:44.7 | over the last thousand episodes. And I think we're only laying the foundation for what we're getting |
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| 2:01.5 | stories from years ago I still talk about that I love because I think if people listen to it, |
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