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. Her first language was Inuktun, the local dialect of Greenlandic. At the age of four Herbert accompanied her parents on a journey that took them through winter blizzards in a caravan to spend time with the Sami of Lapland. She has continued to travel extensively ever since.

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 Independent, The Sunday Times, The Daily Telegraph, Geographical and Traveller magazines.

Herbert's first book, The Explorer's Daughter, was published by Penguin Books in 2005, and was chosen as 'Book of the Week' by BBC Radio 4. She is currently working on her second book.

Herbert has appeared on several radio and television programmes, and presented a short documentary film about climate change for BBC Four in 2006. She has had solo exhibitions of her photography in the UK and Europe.

Herbert is Founder and Managing Director of Polarworld, an independent publishing company that specialises in producing books about the Polar Regions. Books published to date include The Polar World by Sir Wally Herbert, North-East Greenland - The Trapper Era by Peter Schmidt Mikkelsen and Face to Face: Polar Portraits by Dr Huw Lewis-Jones in association with the Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge.

Herbert is a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a member of The Explorers Club, New York.

Television

• Northern Melt - From the Frontline of Global Warming - short film — BBC Four

Radio

• Book of the Week, BBC Radio 4 (read by Emilia Fox)
• With Clive Anderson — Justice system in Greenland, BBC Radio 4
• Everywoman, BBC World Service
• Sandi Toksvig Show, LBC
• Vanessa Feltz Show, BBC London
• Excess Baggage, BBC Radio 4
• Piecing together the Ice Museum, BBC Radio 3
• Tubridy Show, RTÉ