Record-setting skier shares her journey to inspire exceptional performance
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As the first woman to traverse across Antarctica on skis, Felicity Aston joined the ranks of those who've overcome the seemingly impossible. In 2012, the skier braved challenging conditions to ski 1084 miles alone.
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In 2022, Felicity Ashton is leading a North Pole expedition to obtain crucial research about sea ice. Her experience in brutal conditions is a testament to human spirit, which survives challenges with proper preparation and training.
With a storybook career, the explorer has overcome great feats. Spending 59 days crossing the Antartica alone, Felicity learned the demands of challenging environments and the importance of risk management. She also led the first team of women across Greenland’s icesheet and the most diverse group of women to the South Pole.
Felicity is a change maker, encouraging others to explore natural worlds and boldly traverse challenging climates. Those who join the expeditions, experience rich achievements, mental resilience, and personal confidence.
Her keynote addresses inspire audiences with exciting information about adventure and endurance. Sharing some of her most challenges moments, Felicity provides practical tools for enhancing teamwork in complex organizational structures.
Featured in stories by well-known news organizations, such as Vanity Fair and Marie Claire, Felicity leverages media exposure to create awareness about the importance of climate science and diversity in exploration. Her books about exciting explorations open the door for anyone to understand the Artic region and its impact on earth’s changing climate.
See keynotes with Felicity Aston MBEIn 2012 Felicity Aston became the first and only woman in the world to ski alone across Antarctica. She spent 59 days skiing more than 1700km/1084miles completely by herself. Felicity shares the experience of this journey to provide a deeper understanding of the effect of stress on both mind and body, using this insight to reveal how we can develop greater inner strength and mental toughness.
Enhancing emotional and intellectual resilience can boost confidence, performance and achievement. The physical challenges of Felicity’s record-setting journey are astonishing but it is the psychological journey she shares that is most memorable.
In 2018 Polar Explorer Felicity Aston, transformed a disparate group of 10 women from across Europe and the Middle East into a unified high performance team capable of skiing to the North Pole – despite many of the members having no previous cold-weather or expedition experience.
The journey involved traversing the constantly shifting sea ice of the frozen Arctic Ocean, a high-stakes environment that demands adaptive leadership, resilient risk management and efficient decision-making. This is a story that explores what it takes to stand on the top of the world in an environment in which the only certainty is change.
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