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VENTURE Lessons from the Edge Freeze frame: Colin O’Brady in Antarctica in 2018 “Just getting to the start line would take 18 months of perseverance” MASTER Achieving the impossible The only barrier to breaking records, says Colin O’Brady, is your own self-doubt Impossible is a provocative word. For a select few, just thinking it makes them want to prove the opposite. US adventurer Colin O’Brady has taken this to the nth level: in the past five years, he has broken records for the fastest completion of the Seven Summits and the Explorer’s Grand Slam (climbing each continent’s highest peak and visiting both Poles), and in 2018 he was first to cross Antarctica unaided. Last December, he completed ‘The Impossible Row’ along Drake’s Passage between Antarctica and South America. “We’ve all heard the internal voice that states, ‘That’s not possible,’” O’Brady says. “But you can reprogramme your mind.” Never give up “In my book The Impossible First, I wanted to share what it was like to try to raise $500K. Just getting to the start line would take 18 months of perseverance. When we tried to secure funding, people were like, ‘Who are you? Why O’Brady chases that ‘Impossible First’ should we get behind this?’ Determination to get it done started long before I took my first step on any challenge.” Stoicism is key “During the Seven Summits, we were on Everest and got hammered by a storm at Camp Four in the Death Zone. My guide, Pasang Bhote, remained calm and shrugged, ‘Sometimes the weather is bad. This is just the way it is. It will pass and we can try again.’ That was amazing role modelling. The weather cleared a few days later.” Be adaptable “During my 50 Highest Points challenge [scaling the highest peak in each of the US states], Humphreys Peak in Arizona had a drought, which risked forest fires, so we switched to Mount Whitney in California. But then lightning started a fire, so that was closed, too. Then it began to rain in Arizona, so we shot back there. It’s better to plan for things not going right than be disappointed when they don’t.” Break down the task “I hadn’t prepared for the possibility that after one mile in Antarctica I’d be crying, with tears freezing on my face, thinking, ‘I can’t pull my sled any further.’ At that moment, my wife Jenna said, ‘This is an almost 1,000-mile journey. We knew it was going to be hard. Can you make it to the first waypoint?’ Setting those incremental goals was crucial.” Ignore the naysayers “Before The Impossible Row, ocean rowers commented that I hadn’t rowed before, and said, ‘There’s a reason this is a world first: Drake’s Passage is really dangerous. We had to go, ‘Shut up, outside world!’ We had to trust each other as a team.” The Impossible First is out now, published by Scribner; colinobrady.com COLIN O’BRADY HOWARD CALVERT 78 THE RED BULLETIN
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