The Impossible First: An Explorer's Race Across Antarctica, Young Readers Edition

ISBN-10: 153446199X
ISBN-13: 9781534461994
Author: O'Brady, Colin
Interest Level: 5-12
Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Publication Date: September 2021

Copyright: 2020

Page Count: 304

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Interest Level

Grades 5-12

Reading Level

Guided Reading: Z
Lexile: 1130L
Accelerated Reader Level: 7.2
Accelerated Reader Points: 16.0

BISAC Subjects

JUVENILE NONFICTION / Sports & Recreation / Extreme Sports

JUVENILE NONFICTION / Adventure & Adventurers

Description
In this biography, Colin O'Brady vividly recounts his fifty-four-day, unsupported, record-shattering solo crossing of Antarctica using every ounce of his strength, years of training, and sheer force of will. Prior to December 2018, no individual had ever crossed the unforgiving ice of Antarctica alone, unaided and unsupported. Only one day into what would be a 932-mile journey, O'Brady judged what he was trying to do was impossible. Alone with his thoughts, O'Brady traveled back in his memory to the events that led him to this pivotal moment. For a while, it had seemed that nothing would stop him: He'd climbed every high mountain peak, bagged every endurance challenge (the Seven Summits, including Everest...record sprints to both Poles...the highest peaks in all fifty US states)-all after recovering from a freak burning accident that doctors said would end his athletic career. But the prize that had eluded him was success on this moment forbidding continent of all. Impossible First is a raw, thought-provoking adventure memoir, one th
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