Challenge Balloon race and in doing so set a new duration record for the race. They are the only British team to win both the Gordon Bennett Balloon Race and Americas Challenge. Personal and family life Hempleman-Adams has worked in the chemical manufacturing business. He joined his father's company, Robnor (later Robnorganic Systems), later becoming managing director. The company was sold to Mason Corporation in 1995. Subsequently, he was non-executive chairman of Global Resins. He was a non-executive director of XP Power, a PLC Company based in Singapore which manufactures in the US, Europe, China and Vietnam. He is chairman of Hempleman Investment Company, a commercial property company. He lives in Wiltshire with his partner Dr Ros Smith and has three daughters, Alicia, Camilla and Amelia, from his previous marriage. In February 2020 his eldest daughter, Alicia Hempleman-Adams, set the World Female Altitude Record in an AX4 Class hot air balloon, at 4628m, and the British Female Duration Record at 1h 46min in the same flight. Aged 8, she became the youngest person to stand at the North Pole and in April 2005, aged 15, she became the youngest person to traverse Baffin Island. In April 2008 his middle daughter, Camilla, at the age of 15, became the youngest person to ski the last degree to the North Pole. In December 2011 his youngest daughter, Amelia, at the age of 16 became the youngest person to ski to the South Pole having completed Shackleton's last 98 nautical miles. In 2021 she competed at the Henley Royal Regatta. Social and charitable work He retired as a Trustee of St John Ambulance in 2021 having been involved with the charity for 26 years and having held senior since 1999. In 2002 he raised money to buy ambulances for St John through a series of lectures. In 2019 he sailed from Plymouth, U.K., to New York, to promote the work of St John and to encourage young people to try something new. He retired as a Trustee of the Duke of Edinburgh's Award in 2017 having been a Trustee for 10 years. He is a Trustee of The Royal Aero Club Trust. In 1992 Hempleman-Adams co-founded The Mitchemp Trust, a registered youth development charity working with vulnerable young people aged 11 to 14 years old from across Wiltshire and the UK who are suffering the effects of poverty and rural isolation. The Mitchemp