In fact the route, though brutally long and probably insane for a man to try alone, roughly traced the skinny neck of the great penninsula, the dividing line between East and West Antarctica. Some years before O'Brady started his intense training and nutritional planning for the event -- -- veteran Antarctic explorer Louis Rudd and his colleague Henry Worsely attempted a similar feat together. Both Rudd and O'Brady set out on November 3rd, but Rudd was edged out at the continent's shoreline by O'Brady, who decided to make his last push of some 80 miles in a mammoth 32-hour marathon on skis. O'Brady came in on Boxing Day, and waited on the ice for Rudd, who, after battling high winds in the Transarctic Mountains, arrived two days later. Rudd estimates that he lost something like 35 pounds, or about 20 per cent of his body weight, over his 56-day ordeal.

Source: Forbes January 01, 2019 03:45 UTC