back to Awards & NomineesThe Inspiration Awards - Caroline Hamilton

Caroline Hamilton is a record-breaking polar explorer. She is part of the first all-women team to ski to both the North and South Poles. Hauling sledges more than her own bodyweight, she has travelled over 1500 miles through the Arctic and Antarctic.

Caroline had led two previous expeditions but the journey to the North Pole in 2002 proved her most demanding yet.

For 81 days she and her team-mates survived appalling polar conditions, where even their equipment froze solid. They battled for weeks through fields of giant ice boulders, enduring exceptionally low temperatures of minus 45-50° Celsius.