Polar Explorers
FELICITY ASTON.
“A PERSUASIVE EXAMPLE OF HOW DETERMINATION, PLANNING AND SHEER HARD WORK CAN LEAD TO THE ACHIEVEMENT OF A COMMON GOAL. WE WERE LEFT IN AWE.”
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Felicity Aston is an Antarctic scientist and record- breaking polar explorer. She has over a decade of experience leading teams, completing expeditions in Siberia, Quebec, Iceland and the Canadian Arctic.
In 2009, Felicity led a diverse, multicultural team of women on the Kaspersky Lab Commonwealth Antarctic Expedition. Selecting, training and leading this group of ‘ordinary’ women for the 38-day, 900km journey to the South Pole required a keen understanding of team dynamics, motivation and high performance leadership. The aim of the expedition was to demonstrate the potential of greater inter-cultural understanding, raise awareness of the work and value of the modern Commonwealth and to highlight the achievements of women around the World.
KEY THEMES Leadership | Team Dynamics | Motivation
Previously, Felicity has led several other notable expeditions including the first British women’s crossing of Greenland, a 700km winter crossing of Lake Baikal in Siberia and an adventurous expedition in Iceland for young people with a brain injury. She was also part of the first, ever, all-female team to complete the Polar Challenge, a 360-mile endurance race to the magnetic north pole.
In November 2011, Felicity embarked on her first solo expedition to Antarctica. Two months later she became the first women in history to ski solo and unsupported across the Antarctic continent. Skiing during the Antarctic ‘summer’, her 1744 km, 59 day journey saw her enduring katabatic winds and temperatures down to minus 30 degrees centigrade.
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