Ann Daniels | |
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 Daniels at the North Pole in 2002 | |
| Born | 1964 Bradford, England |
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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]
