Man Breaks Record, Treks Across The Antarctica Without Assistance
In an odd but joyous affair,
a man, Colin O’Brady has completed a solo trek across the Antarctica.
The Ameriacan adventurer
completed this feat without any assistance whatsoever and the trek took him all
of 54 days to complete. He walked across nearly 1,000-mile (1,600-kilometer)
crossing of the frozen continent from north to south.
His voyage was tracked by
GPS, and live updates of the trip were provided daily on his website
colinobrady.com.
At the end of his journey,
Colin took to his Instagram to share the news. He wrote, “I accomplished my
goal: to become the first person in history to traverse the continent of
Antarctica coast to coast solo, unsupported and unaided.”
“While the last 32 hours
were some of the most challenging hours of my life, they have quite honestly
been some of the best moments I have ever experienced,” he wrote.
“I was locked in a deep flow
state the entire time, equally focused on the end goal, while allowing my mind
to recount the profound lessons of this journey. I’m delirious writing this as
I haven’t slept yet.”
O’Brady and Rudd set off on
cross-country skis dragging sleds called pulks which weighed nearly 400 pounds
(180 kilograms). O’Brady reached the South Pole on December 12, the 40th day of
his journey. He got to the finish
point on the Ross Ice Shelf on the Pacific Ocean on Wednesday after covering a
total of 921 miles
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