Amelia Hempleman-Adams, a 16-year-old schoolgirl whose father was the first Briton to reach the South Pole alone and unsupported, on Friday became the youngest person to ski to the bottom of the world. She joined her adventurer dad David Hempleman-Adams on the two-week, 97-mile (156-kilometre) trek to the South Pole from explorer Ernest Shackleton's Farthest South Point, where he had to turn back in 1907.
The nine-strong party completed the journey at 0130 GMT Friday after a final 14-mile push. "I'm really proud to have actually made it and just really happy," Amelia Hempleman-Adams told AFP by satellite phone from the South Pole. "It's really exciting to be able to achieve something like this. "It hasn't quite sunk in yet that we've actually made it because it's been such a tough journey, but I'm sure it will in the next few days. She made the 1,100-kilometre (680-mile) kite-assisted trip as part of an unsupported expedition led by her mother.