Colin O'Brady

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Most of those people have done so in five years or 10 years, trained for an expedition, rested between, planned the next one.

And I built it to do it all consecutively throughout.

So generally, Everest expedition will last about two months.

In my case, I was coming straight off the North Pole.

So what's crazy is the North Pole is at sea level.

It's literally ice floating around in the middle of the ocean.

And I had to go straight from there to Everest.

And because I was at sea level, I was not acclimatized at all.

So flying to Everest, but I was late and delayed because the sea ice was cracking in the North Pole.

Literally, you can fall through the cracks into the frozen ocean.

It's a crazy place.

There's polar bear.

I mean, it's one of the wildest landscapes ever in the middle of floating ocean.

You're at the North Pole and the ice is floating around you.

You're actually moving away from the pole and you're having to walk back because it's just a GPS point in the middle of the ocean, basically.

But to fly from there all the way to Everest, I only had three weeks rather than two months to climb it.

And that in itself was just an epic battle.

And this came because of the weather windows on that project towards the end of my project.

So Everest was the eighth of the last nine expeditions.

But what happened up there is I made it into the death zone, which is above 26,000 feet.

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