BIOGRAPHY

Tori James likes a challenge. An adventurer and thrill-seeker with a fascination for snow and ice, she became the youngest ever British female (at twenty five) to climb Mount Everest. She also led the first ever all-female team to complete The Polar Challenge, a gruelling three hundred mile race to the Magnetic North Pole. Not only did they finish the race in sixth position out of sixteen teams, beating all-male teams along the way, but they also raced through polar bear territory, across constantly shifting sea ice and survived storms with temperatures of minus forty degrees.

Tori attributes her resilience to harsh, unwelcoming environments to growing up in Wales. She helped-out on her parents' farm in Pembrokeshire whatever the weather, carting buckets of milk or hefting straw bales. Her first brush with adventure was when she was still at school. Tori achieved Gold in the Duke of Edinburgh's Award Scheme and that led to her first expedition, to a glacier in Iceland.

With a degree in geography under her belt, Tori joined the British Schools Exploring Society. There, she inspired hundreds of youngsters to take up the challenge of science work on expeditions to the most remote and unique locations on the planet.

While training for the Everest attempt, Tori and her all-female team travelled to Tibet to climb the twenty seven thousand feet of Cho Oyu. She was the only member to successfully reach the summit, making her 'the highest Welsh woman in history'.

Tori has made regular television appearances and the BBC documentary 'On Top of the World' used footage that she shot and directed whilst climbing Everest. Her presentations focus on 'success' and her accounts of having achieved three record-breaking expeditions by the age of twenty five inspire and motivate audiences.

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