A Bradford mother-of-triplets who is taking part in a trek to the South Pole has signed a five-figure book deal with other team members to write about the expedition.

Ann Daniels, 33, leaves in six months for the trip with a team of women attempting to conquer the 700 miles to the pole in time to celebrate the Millennium on December 31.

The six women have signed a book deal with Virgin and have used their advance fee towards the cost of the expedition.

Now Ann is also hoping to write her own book about the experience.

"It's great news and something that will record our expedition forever," said Ann, whose triplets are five-years-old.

"One of the team has volunteered to write the words although we'll all be helping and taking photographs along the way.

"I'm also hoping to write my own book about the whole experience but my main priority now is concentrating on the expedition.

"We're getting used to all the publicity. The BBC are hopefully going to do a documentary about the trip and we'll be having a live satellite link-up on New Year's Eve.

"The training is going well but it's getting close now and I have been panicking a bit thinking about it.

"It's going to be gruelling. We'll be walking in freezing conditions and pulling sledges that are double our own body weight.

"We've been training in Norway and Prague and this month we're training with the Navy in the Lake District who are teaching us abseiling techniques.

"The triplets don't really understand the enormity of it but they're getting very excited about the whole thing."

Ann, who is from Allerton but now works for the Ministry of Defence in Somerset, is hoping to move back to the area when she returns from the pole.

"I'm thinking seriously about moving back to Yorkshire as my parents are still in Allerton," she said.

"But the trip is coming up with so many opportunities, I just have to see what happens when we get back."

Ann was part of a 20-strong relay team who successfully made it to the North Pole in 1997 but almost lost her life after falling through the ice.

Now the women are hoping to become the first all-female team to walk to both the North and South Poles.

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