John Beatty red tent  Felicity Aston reaches the South Pole!
Rebecca Varley  Felicity Aston reaches the South Pole  On 20th
December Polar explorer Felicity Aston finally reached the South
Pole after 30 days skiing across the frozen wilderness of
Antarctica - completely on her own.  Felicity arrived at the
South Pole station at 4.00pm local time, arriving in such bad
weather that she couldn’t even see the building which is home to
around 250 people over the Antarctic summer months.  Reaching
the pole is, for most polar expeditions, the ultimate goal. But
for Felicity, who is attempting to become the first woman in
history to ski solo right the way across Antarctica, the South
Pole is not even the half-way point of her journey!  Listen to
Felicity’s South Pole phonecast  Traversing across the coldest,
driest and windiest continent on Earth - an environment so
hostile and remote that it has no permanent residents - is a
huge feat of physical and mental endurance.  Felicity is
attempting her global first during