Skiing Solo Across Antarctica with Felicity Aston

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🗓️ 14 January 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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On January 23, 2012, Felicity Aston made history as the first woman to ski solo across Antarctica. Her remarkable journey and extensive career as a Polar Explorer and Climate Researcher have taken her to some of the most remote and challenging environments on Earth.

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0:00.0	Antarctica is one of the most spell-bindingly beautiful places that you'll ever have the good fortune to see.
0:11.9	People think of it as being this sort of desolate white place, but it's a place of light and of colour because you have a light being reflected in every tiny crystal of snow and ice that there is.
0:33.1	On January 23rd, 2012, Felicity Aston became the first woman to ski solo across Antarctica,
0:41.2	earning her a place in the Guinness Book of World Records.
0:44.4	Over the course of her career, Felicity's work as a polar explorer and climate researcher
0:48.9	has taken her to some of the most remote parts of the earth.
0:52.7	She led the first British woman's crossing of Greenland
0:55.3	and has guided multiple record-setting ski expeditions
0:58.6	on both the north and south poles.
1:01.1	For Felicity, ice and snow make an adventure even more exciting.
1:05.5	Plus, she enjoys not having to deal with bugs or humidity.
1:09.2	Felicity loves the cold,
1:10.9	which is partly why she has chosen to create a wildlife
1:13.7	and live on a remote island off the coast of Iceland.
1:17.8	I'm Shelby Stanger, and this is Wild Ideas Worth Living,
1:21.3	an REI Co-op Studios production presented by Capital One
1:24.9	and the REI Co-Op Mastercard.
1:35.1	Thank you. presented by Capital One and the REI Co-op MasterCard. Felicity Ashton, welcome to Wild Ideas Worth Living.
1:38.4	So excited to have you on.
1:40.2	Before we start, I'm just curious, where in the world you are right now.
1:44.1	I live right up in the world you are right now?
1:52.1	I live right up in the northwest of Iceland, but I actually live on a small island just off the coast of Iceland.
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