American crosses Antarctica on foot and alone for the first time in its history | Look how cool it is

It took 54 days in North America to travel 1,600 kilometers. The adventurer had the position set by a GPS and could be checked daily on his website, colinobrady.com.

O 'Brady left on November 3 with the British Army Louis Rudd, 49, of the Antarctic Union Glacier. The two men quarreled to see who could accomplish the tour de force to cross on foot, alone and without help, the cold continent.

In 1996-97, a Norwegian explorer, Borge Ousland, crossed for the first time Antarctica, but received the help of others and was propelled with sails along its crossing. O & # 39; Brady and Rudd, on the other hand, used only sleds, called pulks, which weigh 180 kilos.

O & # 39; Brady arrived at the South Pole on December 12th. And Wednesday (26), he reached the finish line on the pack ice of Ross, in the Pacific Ocean, after traveling 1,482 km. Rudd is back, one or two days away from his rival.

O & # 39; Brady traveled the last 125 kilometers in 32 hours after having decided, while having breakfast, to take the last step at a time.

"During boiling water to prepare my breakfast, a seemingly impossible question was asked in my head," writes O. Brady on Instagram.

"While building ties, the impossible plan became a consolidated goal," he said.

The New York Times describes O 'Brady's effort as one of the "most remarkable achievements of polar history" at the apogee of the "South Pole Race" of the Norwegian Roald Amundsen and the Englishman Robert Falcon Scott in 1911.