An Antarctic Explorer’s Mental Journey

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An Antarctic Explorer’s Mental Journey
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After 53 days trying to cross the Antarctic alone, Colin O’Brady was emaciated and losing touch with reality. But then he asked himself, “What if I don’t stop?”

Fifty-three days into his solo trek across Antarctica and 77 miles from his goal, Colin O’Brady was exhausted and starving. Running out of food, he had stretched out his daily rations to keep himself alive. “My ribs were sticking out, my hips were sticking out,” he recalls.

“I had frostbite on my hands and cheeks.” It was Christmas Day 2018, and he could barely summon the energy to pack his bags onto the sled he pulled behind him. But then he started and, step by step, something in him shifted: “My mind came alive. I said to myself, ‘What if I don’t stop? What if I just keep going?’”

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