When facing your next big challenge, one of the most important things to prepare is your mindset. While having all the right equipment and technical knowledge is essential, it is your mental health that’s going to help you make decisions in the moment. Felicity Aston MBE is an author, speaker, expedition leader and former Antarctic scientist whose learned the mental preparation necessary for surviving and thriving in the most extreme conditions. With this skill, she became th

Felicity's Polar career began in the year 2000, when she travelled to Antarctica for the first time with the British Antarctic Survey as a Meteorologist. Aged just 23 she spent a continuous period of two and a half years (including two consecutive winters) at Rothera Research Station on the Antarctic Peninsula to monitor climate and ozone. Felicity went on to organise and lead numerous expeditions to remote places around the world, but particularly to the Polar Regions. Her e

A massive thank you to Rachel Goddard for writing this blog piece about Felicity Aston. Felicity is a polar explorer, a scientist, a Guinness world record holder, received the Queen’s polar medal and has an MBE. But as amazing as these achievements are, that’s not why I am so inspired listening to Felicity Aston. She was one of the first female explorers I found out about, following her journey across Antarctica in 2011 and hearing her talk in 2013 and now with this podcast e

British polar explorer Felicity Aston MBE became the first woman in 2012 to ski alone across Antarctica. It was a journey of 1744km that took 59 days to complete and which gave her a place in the book of Guinness World Records. During this podcast Felicity shares her experiences of how she prepared both mentally and physically for this journey. Felicity also talks about the following: -What first got Felicity interested in polar exploration -How she coped with preparing for h