Colin O'Brady

Colin O'Brady is an American professional endurance athlete, motivational speaker and adventurer, born on 16 March 1985 in Olympia, Washington and raised in Portland, Oregon. A youth soccer player and Oregon state swimming champion, he swam breaststroke for Yale and graduated in 2006. After a severe burn injury in Thailand in 2008 he rebuilt his fitness through triathlon, represented the United States on the ITU Triathlon World Cup circuit and finished his triathlon career at Ironman Japan in August 2015. He then turned to mountaineering and polar expeditions: in 2016 he set the record for the Explorers Grand Slam, which combines the highest mountain on each of the seven continents with expeditions to both poles, and in 2018 he set a speed record for the 50 US high points in 21 days. On 26 December 2018 he completed a solo crossing of the Antarctic land mass, using the South Pole Traverse road for the final 366 miles.