When I was 16, my greatest accomplishment was learning to drive and fix an askew ponytail at the same time. When 16-year-old Jade Hameister reached the South Pole after lugging around a 220-pound sled on skis for 37 days, she became not only the youngest person to ski from the Antarctic coast to the Pole without support, but the youngest person to complete a challenge called the “polar hat trick.”