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Caroline Hamilton – Motivational Speaker and Polar Explorer Caroline Hamilton is a recordbreaking polar explorer and a successful businesswoman. She shares her experiences and insights into human potential in speeches that are moving, humorous and inspirational. Caroline was an investment banker for eight years. She is a Cambridge blue and is now a director of a private company called Screen Partners where she acts as a risk manager and advisor to insurance companies financing the international film and television industry. To the North Pole In June 2002, after 81 days and over 500 miles hauling sledges through appalling polar conditions, Caroline Hamilton and her team-mate, Ann Daniels, reached the North Pole. In so doing, they set two world records: - Caroline and Ann are the first female British explorers to have trekked to the geographic North and South Poles as part of all-women expeditions. - Caroline and Ann are the first female explorers in history to have trekked to both geographic Poles as part of all-women expeditions. Caroline had led two previous expeditions, but the journey to the North Pole proved her most demanding yet. Together with Ann and Pom Oliver, she set off to become part of the first all-women team to reach the North Pole unsupported. However, from the start, conditions turned against them and they battled for weeks through fields of giant ice boulders, enduring exceptionally low temperatures of minus 45-50° Celsius. Their equipment froze solid and, worst of all, three major storms with winds of 90 mph confined them to their tent for days at a time. At one point, unable to put up their tent, the women were trapped under a tarpaulin on the open ice for 50 hours without food or heat, as they were buried alive under drifting snow. The team survived, but not unscathed. Caroline’s frostbite was so severe that she could not use her hands for two weeks, while Pom’s toes became so infected that, after 47 days of excruciating pain, she had to be airlifted out. Caroline and Ann were devastated but carried on. In a race against time, they managed to cover the last 330 miles in 30 days. As the weather improved, the ice began to melt and break up around them. Caroline and Ann fell through the ice many times and, with sections of the route cut off, they were forced to swim with their sledges through stretches of sub-zero sea water. Finally, after giving their all, they reached the North Pole on June 2nd 2002, the day of the Queen’s Golden Jubilee. Talks Swimming to the North Pole Spectacular images and stories from Caroline Hamilton about the first all-women team to walk to both the South and North Poles. Hauling sledges more than her own bodyweight, she travelled 500 miles to the North Pole in 2002 and 700 miles to the South Pole in 2000. Caroline shares her experiences and insights into human potential in a talk that is moving, humorous and inspirational.