At 23, Felicity left the UK to spend three years living and working in the Antarctic as a meteorologist with the British Antarctic Survey.

At 27, she was part of the first all-female team to complete the Polar challenge, a 360-mile endurance race across the Canadian Arctic.

A year later, Felicity led the first British women's crossing of the Greenland ice-sheet.

At 31, she led an all-women expedition team,on a 562-mile Antarctic ski trek to the South Pole. They arrived 38 days after they began their adventure to mark the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Commonwealth.

Becoming the first women’s team to ski to the pole, the Commonwealth Women’s Antarctic Expedition skied six to 10 hours a day, trekked an average of 15 miles a day, each hauling a 176lb sled of provisions and shelter to reach the United States-operated Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station science base.

Felicity said. “I’m incredibly proud of the team and I think ... if we can do this then you can do anything that you like to and that’s the message that we really want to send to everyone”.

 

FELICITY ASTON

At 23, Felicity left the UK to spend three years living and working in the Antarctic as a meteorologist with the British Antarctic Survey.

At 27, she was part of the first all-female team to complete the Polar challenge, a 360-mile endurance race across the Canadian Arctic.

A year later, Felicity led the first British women's crossing of the Greenland ice-sheet.