Background
The daughter of polar explorer, Sir Wally Herbert, Herbert spent the first few years of her life living on a remote island in the Arctic with the Polar Inuit of Northwest Greenland.
Photographer television presenter
The daughter of polar explorer, Sir Wally Herbert, Herbert spent the first few years of her life living on a remote island in the Arctic with the Polar Inuit of Northwest Greenland.
After leaving school she studied Media & Design in Portsmouth, then went on to work as a fashion stylist for Japanese rock bands before becoming a travel writer and photographer for newspapers and magazines such as The Guardian, The Independent, The Sunday Times, The Daily Telegraph, Geographical and Traveller.
Her first language was Inuktun, the local dialect of Greenlandic. She has continued to travel extensively ever since. She has twice been a judge for the Guardian"s annual travel writing competition.
Herbert"s first book, The Explorer"s Daughter, was published by Penguin Books in 2005, and was chosen as "Book of the Week" by British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4 and translated into several languages.
Herbert has appeared on several radio and television programmes, and presented a short documentary film about climate change for British Broadcasting Corporation Four in 2006. She has had solo exhibitions of her photography in the United Kingdom and Europe, and has given lectures at the Royal Geographical Society, the National Maritime Museum, the Scott Polar Research Institute, The Explorer"s Club among many others
Books published to date include The Polar World by Sir Wally Herbert, Face to Face: Polar Portraits by Doctor Huw Lewis-Jones in association with the Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, Letters From Everest by George Lowe and Life on the Lincolnshire by Cristian Barnett. Radio Book of the Week, British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4 (read by Emilia Fox) With Clive Anderson – Justice system in Greenland, British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4 Everywoman, British Broadcasting Corporation World Service Sandi Toksvig Show, LBC Vanessa Feltz Show, British Broadcasting Corporation London Excess Baggage, British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4 Piecing together the Ice Museum, British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 3 Tubridy Show, RTÉ.
Herbert is a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a member of The Explorers Club, New New York