Colin O'Brady prepares to fly back north after his Antarctic expedition, Jan. 3, 2019. H aving trekked hundreds of miles into Antarctica in late 2018, American Colin O’Brady reached a memorable landmark: the south pole. Professional triathlete-turned-adventurer Colin O’Brady captured the public’s imagination in 2018 when he skied solo across 932 miles of Antarctica in 54 days and beat a rival explorer to the prize he immodestly termed The Impossible First. Colin O’Brady, one of the two men racing to become the first person to trek across Antarctica unassisted, posted this photo on Instagram on the 50th day of his journey. He just finished paddling his way across what's known as the "Everest" of sailing — rowing with five other men across the unpredictable Drake Passage, from South America to Antarctica.Before that, he became the first person to traverse the southern continent alone and unaided in December 2018. After 15 days of pulling a nearly 400-pound sled across a treacherously windy Antarctica, Colin O'Brady was hungry, his willpower depleted. Colin O’Brady didn’t just cross that frozen continent in 2018, which is impressive enough. Colin O'Brady is a person who enjoys pushing the outer limits of what he thinks is possible. T he adventure community has rounded against the American endurance athlete and Instagrammer Colin O’Brady, accusing him of embellishing aspects of his solo crossing of Antarctica.. Photo Colin O'Brady Earlier today, American Colin O’Brady became the first person to complete a solo, unassisted, unsupported crossing of Antarctica. Endurance athlete Colin O’Brady spent 54 days on the ice of Antarctica, completing the first unsupported solo traverse of the continent on December 26.

Colin O’Brady, of Portland, finished the bone-chilling, 930-mile (1,500-kilometer) journey on Wednesday as friends, family and fans tracked the endurance athlete’s progress in real time online. He finished the 1,700km in just over 54 days, including a blazing 15 days to cover the last 600km from the South Pole to the beginning of the Ross Ice Shelf. Professional triathlete-turned-adventurer Colin O’Brady captured the public’s imagination in 2018 when he skied solo across 932 miles of Antarctica in 54 days and beat a rival explorer to the prize he immodestly termed The Impossible First.

Colin O’Brady, 33, has become the first person to ski alone and unaided across the Antarctic sub-ice landmass. Colin O’Brady is an endurance athlete who decided to cross Antarctica on his own, a feat never before accomplished.

Endurance athlete Colin O’Brady spent 54 days on the ice of Antarctica, completing the first unsupported solo traverse of the continent on December 26. A little more than a year later, his book of the same title is a New York Times bestseller. On December 26th, 2018, Colin O’Brady became the first person to traverse Antarctica solo, completely unsupported and unaided. Colin O'Brady criticized in National Geographic for exaggerating feats during Antarctic journey. With no resupplies, he had to … "I woke up during the night feeling overwhelmed and ganged-up on, my defenses down," O'Brady wrote in his new memoir about the expedition, "The Impossible First.".

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In this photo released by Colin O'Brady on December 14, 2018, shows adventurer Colin O'Brady posing for a photo at the Geographic South Pole sign in Antarctica. Colin O’Brady’s crossing of Antarctica required solving “the brutal math problem,” as he calls it, of surviving alone in one of the planet’s most remote and inhospitable places. Colin O’Brady covered the final 77.54 miles over 32 hours without sleep, a trek he described as an Antarctic ultramarathon, then called his family to tell them tearfully, “I did it!”. In this photo released by Colin O’Brady on December 14, 2018, shows adventurer Colin O’Brady posing for a photo at the Geographic South Pole sign in Antarctica.

COLIN O'BRADY… He crossed it alone, without help, without as much as a couple of huskies. The first successful expedition to …