Ann Daniels (born 1964 or 1965) is a British

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and motivational speaker. She and her team-mate Caroline Hamilton were the first women to reach both the

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and

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as part of all-women teams, in 2002. Daniels was born

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, England, and grew up there, with four older brothers. Her father was an insurance salesman, her mother a secretary. She worked for

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, achieving promotion to assistant bank manager, a post which she gave up in 1994, when her triplets were born. She first reached the North Pole on in the 1997 McVities Penguin Polar Relay, and has been there at least six times in all. Her first attempt to reach the North Pole solo, walking from Russia, was called off in 2005. She appeared as a castaway on the

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programme ''

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'' on 21 January 2007, and was awarded an honorary DUniv degree

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in the same year. She led Catlin Arctic Survey expeditions in 2009, 2010 and 2011, with

Pen Hadow Rupert Nigel Pendrill Hadow, known as Pen Hadow (born 26 February 1962), is a British Arctic region explorer, advocate, adventurer and guide. He is the only person to have trekked solo, and without resupply by third parties, from Canada to the ...

. 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.

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* Year of birth uncertain People from Bradford English polar explorers Living people 1964 births {{UK-explorer-stub