In from the cold: Obiter is regularly inundated with tales of lawyers' derring-do, but few really stand out. An exception can definitely be made for Nottingham solicitor Carolyn Kirkham, who has made a successful trek to the South Pole. A two-year qualified assistant solicitor at Nottingham firm Berryman, Ms Kirkham was part of a team of six that started out from where explorer Ernest Shackleton turned back in 1907.
Four of the team reached the pole, pulling their eight-stone sledges 112 miles in eight days. The temperature reached as low as minus 41 degrees Centigrade.
'We were exhausted when we finished, but it was incredible to be amongst the 200 people or so who have ever made the journey to the South Pole,' our legal heroine reports. 'It was an experience I'll remember for the rest of my life.'
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