Alicia Hempleman-Adams
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Alicia Nicole Hempleman-Adams Template:Postnominals (born 8 November 1989)[1] holds the record for the youngest person to have reached the North Pole when she was flown there to meet her father at the age of eight.[2] On 13 April 2005 she became the youngest person to traverse Baffin Island, aged 15.[3]
Hempleman-Adams took 10 days to walk and ski 200 miles across Baffin Island in north-east Canada. Hempleman-Adams and her three companions had to battle a wind chill factor of minus 30C, thin ice and open water along the trek.[4][5]
In February 2020 Hempleman-Adams set the World Female Altitude Record in an AX4 Class hot air balloon, at 4628m, and the British Female Duration Record at 1h 46min in the same flight.[6][7]
She attended Stonar School in Atworth, Wiltshire, and studied fashion at the University of Creative Arts (University of London) in Epsom. She works in logistics in the fashion industry.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Family
Hempleman-Adams is the daughter of British explorer David Hempleman-Adams.[7]
References
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- https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4n18gn0r28o
- https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/british-david-bath-somerset-bethlehem-b1153558.html
- https://www.fai.org/news/alicia-hempleman-adams-claims-two-world-records
- https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/susie-dent-king-helen-mirren-mbe-wales-b1199038.html
- https://www.nationalworld.com/news/uk/camilla-hempleman-adams-british-adventurer-apologises-after-claiming-solo-first-across-inuit-land-in-canadas-baffin-island-who-is-her-dad-5075702
- https://www.fai.org/news/alicia-hempleman-adams-reaches-altitude-4604m-hot-air-balloon
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/86884.stm
- https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1484553/15-year-old-daughter-of-Hempleman-Adams-follows-in-his-footsteps.html
- https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/david-canada-british-london-amelia-b1215558.html
- https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-somerset-63735021