Victor Vescovo
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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It wasn't like, oh, I'm going to go do this thing.
I just loved climbing.
And I kept climbing higher and higher.
And eventually I was able to climb Everest.
And I said, well, that was pretty cool.
Wow, the poles sound pretty interesting.
And by the way, the North Pole is a lot harder than the South Pole.
Well, it moves.
You're on ice flows.
So on one day of our expedition to ski to the North Pole, we woke up, we skied like 12 hours that day.
We were exhausted and it was negative 40.
It's just hellish up there.
You know, polar bears are running around.
Who's we?
Myself and two other people, including maybe the world's best Arctic explorer, Eric Larson.
He was our guide and one other individual and the three of us with one tent pulling all of our supplies over ice flows in the ice.
It was...
It was kind of epic.
And yeah, we plowed forward all day for like 12 hours, went to sleep, woke up, right back to the same place where we started.
Because we had drifted while we slept.