I tackled freezing -40F temperatures and risked polar bear attacks to set a WORLD RECORD on an all-female ski expedition above the magnetic North Pole [Video]

12:55 EDT 03 Aug 2024, updated 12:55 EDT 03 Aug 2024

Never before had I experienced such cold. 

A brutal iciness which stung as soon as it hit, leaving my hair white and static, my eyelashes frosted and my hands burning in pain. 

I have spent time in some cold places from the wilds of Iceland in the depths of winter to the North Col of Everest during a white out but none of these spots were a patch on Canada‘s far north, where I had ventured to take part in an all-female ski expedition focused on climate change. 

The four of us, led by polar explorer Felicity Aston MBE, had been told that the weather in Canada’s Nunavut region had been exceptionally cold this spring and we were certainly experiencing its brutality as we ventured out onto the frozen sea ice with our 80kg sleds in tow.

With 40mph winds whipping around us, the temperature plummeted to around …