Ann Daniels

Ann Daniels (born 1964 or 1965[1]) is a British polar explorer and motivational speaker.[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.
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