Ann Daniels

Ann Daniels (born 1964 or 1965 ) is a British polar explorer and motivational speaker. She and her team-mate Caroline Hamilton were the first women to reach both the North Pole and South Pole as part of all-women teams, in 2002.

Daniels was born Bradford, England, and grew up there, with four older brothers. and has been there at least six times in all.

She appeared as a castaway on the BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs on 21 January 2007, and was awarded an honorary DUniv degree Staffordshire University in the same year.

She led Catlin Arctic Survey expeditions in 2009, 2010 and 2011, with Pen Hadow.

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.