Ann Daniels | |
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 Daniels at the North Pole in 2002 | |
| Born | 1964 |
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| Known for | Polar exploration |
Ann Daniels (born 1964 or 1965[1]) is a British polar explorer and motivational speaker. She and her team-mate Caroline Hamilton were the first women to reach both the North Pole and South Pole as part of all-women teams, in 2002.
Daniels was born Bradford, England, and grew up there, with four older brothers.[1] Her father was an insurance salesman, her mother a secretary.[1] She worked for NatWest, achieving promotion to assistant bank manager,[1] a post which she gave up in 1994, when her triplets were born.[1]
She first reached the North Pole on in the 1997 McVities Penguin Polar Relay,[2] and has been there at least six times in all.[1]
Her first attempt to reach the North Pole solo, walking from Russia, was called off in 2005.[3]
She appeared as a castaway on the BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs on 21 January 2007,[4] and was awarded an honorary DUniv degree Staffordshire University in the same year.[2]
She led Catlin Arctic Survey expeditions in 2009, 2010 and 2011, with Pen Hadow.
She is the mother of four children, three of them (two girls and a boy) triplets from her first marriage, plus a daughter from a second partner.[1]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d e f g Williams, Sally (14 February 2009). "Poles apart: How does a mother cope with leaving her children behind for an arctic expedition?". The Guardian. Retrieved 20 August 2014.
- ^ a b "Ann Daniels". Staffordshire University. Retrieved 20 August 2014.
- ^ "Adventurer mum Ann Daniels from Whimple, aims for North Pole solo record". Western Morning News. 23 January 2012. Archived from the original on 21 August 2014. Retrieved 20 August 2014.
- ^ "Desert Island Discs - Castaway : Ann Daniels". BBC Online. BBC. Retrieved 18 August 2014.
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