Alicia Hempleman-Adams

Alicia Hempleman Adams is the teenage daughter of British explorer David Hempleman-Adams. She is aiming to emulate fer father's success by becoming the youngest person to trek to the North Pole. At the age of eight she was the youngest person to reach it when she was flown there to meet her father. Her PE teacher Jo Simmonds from Stonar School in Wiltshire will join her on the trek.

Alicia Hempleman-Adams took 10 days to walk and ski 150 miles across Baffin Island in north-east Canada. Alicia and her three companions had to battle a wind chill factor of minus 40C, thin ice and open water along the trek. But this will not necessarily mean the start of a career in exploration, she said. "I want to try other things first."

Alicia went on to attend Prior Park College in Bath.

She now lives with her fiance Ben Talbot, frontman in UK rock band The Scene.