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Tori James is a professional adventurer, author and keynote speaker.

Tori is the first Welsh woman to climb Mount Everest. She was a member of the first all-female team to ski to the Magnetic North Pole in a 360-mile polar challenge. Tori holds the record for the longest open sea kayak in UK waters which she set with the Beeline Britain team.

Over the last 20 years, working in collaboration with high profile sponsors, Tori has undertaken some of the world’s most extreme endurance challenges, setting many records and achieving what most people would consider impossible. From surviving the death zone on Mount Everest to racing across frozen sea ice in the Arctic, she is not one for a quiet life.

Tori is a sought-after motivational speaker, both onstage and online, with over 500 keynote talks delivered in her career to date. She engages audiences around the world with her inspirational talks and enables people to challenge and learn about themselves in her adventure-inspired training sessions.

Tori is the President of Girlguiding Cymru, a Fellow of British Exploring and an ambassador for the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award in Wales. She lives in Wales and combines her outdoor adventuring, speaking career and training work with being a mum.