Telegraph: 15-year-old daughter of Hempleman-Adams follows in his footsteps

From the February 28, 2005, Telegraph, Elizabeth Grice reported:

Much against her father's better judgment, the 15-year-old daughter of David Hempleman-Adams, the polar explorer and mountaineer, is about to set out on an expedition of her own – to the Arctic wilderness of Baffin Island.

Alicia Hempleman-Adams will be the youngest person to have attempted the magnificent traverse of jagged mountain peaks, steep fjords and glacial ice.

She is a slight girl, with long, thin legs and slender hands. Despite her avowed love of sport and the outdoor life, it is hard to imagine her shouldering a school rucksack without difficulty, let alone skiing and pulling a 60lb sledge 200 miles across remote and dangerous terrain in minus 30 degrees...

The Scotsman, at http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/scitech.cfm?id=320912005, has an article today that says Alicia starts her trek tomorrow.

And lest all the headlines and over-dramatic leads lead you into thinking otherwise, the girl is the youngest member of a team. She will not be alone. Her companions are experienced. She heard about someone backing out of a planned expedition, and volunteered to take that person's place. It's still a hazardous (and maybe somewhat crazy) undertaking, but she does have someone watching her back. For whatever reason, some reporters seem to be having fun burying that fact way, way down in their stories.