Colin O'Brady

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The School of Greatness · 54 Days Alone in Antarctica, Pulling 375 Pounds | Colin O’Brady · 3 Jul 2026 podcast

Yeah.

So the average temperature in Antarctica is about minus 25, minus 30, and that's with no wind.

Antarctica is the windiest and coldest continent in the world, and so often days would be 50, 60 mile per hour wind gusts, and you'd literally have, gosh, I don't know, minus 80 degrees wind chill.

The easiest way for me to describe

I know you're from Ohio, so I know you know a little bit about cold weather and whatnot, but what I will say is this.

I couldn't experience that cold until I realized I took a cup of boiling water from my tent and I would throw it in the air and it would immediately turn into ice.

That's how cold that is.

So then for me, that's like, sometimes it's hard to put a perspective where it's like, yeah, it was cold.

Wow, that's real cold.

No, like it's so cold that boiling water could turn into ice in a second.

No.

No, so there's sort of an adage in the world of polar exploration, which is, if you sweat, you die.

Potentially a little hyperbolic, but to be honest, it's pretty true in that if you're pulling a 375-pound sled, it's amazing.

You can stay pretty warm while you're moving, but you stop for five seconds, 10 seconds to get a swig of water to eat a little bit of food, and you can immediately go hypothermic.

It's a matter of what I say is staying comfortably cool.

So it's moving at a pace that, you know, keeps you warm enough, but also being aware enough of your body temperature that you're not sweating.

But when I would stop, I would eat food every, you know, kind of a steady flow of food in these column bars that were self-created for this project.

I would, you know, eat very frequently.

But even in those little like 30-second breaks, I'd put on a huge puffy jacket.

Like, immediately.

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