the most dangerous ocean crossing in the
world is from South America to
Antarctica 600 miles of the most
treacherous and unpredictable waters on
the planet Drake Passage six elite
athletes are attempting to survive
arctic cold temperatures winds storms
and 40-foot swells in a rowboat
fly birds there's one after the big
debate is over trash for big see girls
that bed Jamie ten bucks this house the
bird man himself live on the mood is
good yeah we're feeling strong the back
combined with beautiful weather and calm
water morales super high right now just
hold on lives but really really cool
experience
John and I right now are musing about
how the video diaries is about
cabin-like different from the video
diaries in the in the stern Gavin Fionna
I suspect is self recording lectures on
mysticism or perhaps they're just
creeping up on the and we have a a
joined great white cruise ship coming up
on us
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so the guys are water quite excited I
have to say out of all think of a life
that becomes and one of the top three
experiences synchronization liner
looking a little worried about taking
what the hell are these guys up saying
we have a to a single point since we
left all these Tories are like like two
started crying because I was just like
so emotional artistic it's really nice
to have some support out here when we're
all by ourselves and I think it all
gives the guys an extra bump to kind of
keep comfort on the oars and making
forward progress it's it's it's a cool
experience to see that big ship
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I think if anyone from me I dedicate
this row across the dig passage to talk
to have the courage to take on what I
might otherwise think is not possible
I was as far from an athlete as you
could imagine when I was a teenager in
North Dakota when I was in high school I
was really overweight my friends used to
tease me and after a while the teasing
got to me so I started jogging by the
time I left for college I was determined
that I was gonna show my high-school
buddies who could make it as a varsity
athlete growing and fencing were the
only two sports that took walkins
by the time I was a senior I was
fortunate enough not only to make the
varsity boat of the Yale lightweight
crew but also to be wrong alongside
seven other very talented individuals
and together we won the Division one
national championship my senior year
since yeah I rowed in Taiwan and China
and international competitions and
shortly after graduating competed in the
Henley Regatta in England over the
course of four years of rowing I learned
to trust myself and that gave way to a
passion for discovering what else I
could take on so because I was afraid of
fights after college I started climbing
mountains 7,800 feet looking at the
summit of Mount McKinley looking at over
mount Foraker looking at Mount Hunter
now when you summit baby I was very
proud to be right around the one hundred
and fiftieth person to ever climb the
tallest mountain on every continent as
much as it is a feat of endurance and
logistics the Stars after lime because
you can't control the weather you can't
control a freak accident
I was tragically involved in the
avalanche on Mount Everest base camp
that killed somewhere near 30 people in
2015
luckily my camp my team and I weren't
hurt at all and in fact were able to
help with the rescue in the aftermath
work as a management consultant based
out of Minneapolis it's a fluid job that
allows me to travel a lot it gives me
flexibility to be able to train for and
go on expeditions like this I love
pushing my physical limits I love being
outdoors in natural environments
disconnected from the grid and really
seeing what humans are capable of
there's a reason nobody's ever rode
across the Drake before it's wild I mean
it's where the entire force of the
Atlantic and Pacific Oceans converge I
think of it as we prepare for everything
we can and then we deal with adversity
as we encounter it
we officially crossed into Antarctic
waters across the 60th degree latitude
the Whalers surfers the Roaring Forties
as a hustler law they used to say the
Furious 50s personal gods and 60s they
just described as a screeling 60s
the 60s is surprisingly the first
conditions you have almost the war in
the mid-atlantic we have two shifts
happening where Jim and the music that
was really nice just feeling great
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