First Woman (UK) to ski to the Magnetic North Pole
December 2010, Badbury Clump, Oxfordshire
b.1966, Edinburgh
A polar adventurer and athlete, Stockdale became the first British woman to ski to the magnetic North Pole in 1996 when she was 29 years old. The trek rook 30 days in -40 degrees centigrade temperatures. James Clark Ross was the first person to locate the magnetic North Pole in 1831. Only a handful of women have ever made it there.