Wilderness Awards 2008
Felicity AstonFelicity Aston joined the British Antarctic Survey as a Meteorologist in 2000 and spent three years at Rothera Research Station on the Antarctic Peninsula. Since returning from the Antarctic, Felicity has worked for the British Schools Exploring Society, competed in the Polar Challenge as part of the first all-female team to complete the Arctic endurance race, led an adventurous expedition to Iceland for a group of young people who had suffered an ABI (Acquired Brain Injury), led the first British all-female team to cross the Greenland ice-sheet and skied a frozen river in north-eastern Siberia to investigate the story of a Victorian nurse who journeyed to the region in the 1890's. In the UK, she is also an established travel writer. Felicity was our 2008 Wilderness Award winner.
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