Tori James

Tori James (born 1981)[1] was the first Welsh woman to climb Mount Everest,[2] at the age of 25, making her the youngest British woman ever to complete the ascent.[3]

Career

James is a published author,[4] a motivational speaker and consultant[5] delivering leadership training and team and youth development projects. She lives in Cardiff.[6]

In June 2014 James was part of the Beeline Britain team who became the first to travel in a straight line from Land’s End to John O’Groats in aid of BLESMA (the British Limbless Ex-Servicemen’s Association).[1][7]

James carries out motivational training for corporate and charitable organisations in sectors including aviation, entrepreneurship and sport.[6] She is an ambassador for the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award in Wales, Girl Guiding UK and the Visit Wales Year of Adventure 2016.[6]

Works

  • Peak Performance. Accent Press. 2013. ISBN 9781908917553.[4]
gollark: I mean, all recent Intel CPUs have the Intel Management Engine, i.e. a mini-CPU with full access to everything running unfathomable code.
gollark: At some point you probably have to decide that some issues aren't really realistic or useful to consider, such as "what if there are significant backdoors in every consumer x86 CPU".
gollark: Presumably most of the data on the actual network links is encrypted. If you control the hardware you can read the keys out of memory or something (or the decrypted data, I suppose), but it's at least significantly harder and probably more detectable than copying cleartext traffic.
gollark: Well, yes, but people really like blindly unverifiably trusting if it's convenient.
gollark: Or you can actually offer something much nicer and better in some way, a "killer app" for decentralized stuff, but if you do that and it's not intrinsically tied to the decentralized thing the big platforms will just copy it.

References

  1. "Colin Jackson's Raise Your Game - Tori James". BBC Wales.
  2. Morgan, Sion (31 January 2013). "Everest: How Tori James defied death to stand where no Welsh woman had stood before". Wales Online. Retrieved 8 December 2016.
  3. "Meet the London Business School Everest team". London Business School student views. 28 May 2008. Retrieved 11 December 2016.
  4. Owens, David (November 9, 2012). "Welsh adventurer Tori James on conquering Everest and North Pole". Wales Online. Retrieved December 11, 2016.
  5. "Podcast Interview Series: Tori James". British Exploring Society. November 30, 2015. Retrieved December 11, 2016.
  6. Davies, Ruth (6 February 2016). "Pembrokeshire adventurer Tori James in running for top award". Western Telegraph. Retrieved December 11, 2016.
  7. "Tori James » About". www.torijames.com. Retrieved 2016-12-08.

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