Ep. 551: Skiing Self-Supported to the South Pole with Your Husband - Chris Fagan
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 29 July 2019
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
When Chris and Marty Fagan go on an adventure, they go big! From bike tours through Africa to racing sailboats in Alaska, the couple is a dynamic duo of adventurous spirit.
Over the winter of 2013/2014, that spirit culminated in a 48-day ski expedition to the South Pole. Upon completion, they became the first American married couple (and second married couple in history) to complete a full unsupported, unguided, unassisted ski from the Antarctic coast to the South Pole. In fact, they're two of just over 100 people in all of history to have traveled to the South Pole in that way.
Chris is an amazing storyteller, and I hope you enjoy this conversation about two parents risking it all for a chance at an extraordinary adventure.
Chris' book about the trip, The Expedition: Two Parents Risk Life and Family in an Extraordinary Quest to the South Pole, comes out September 3, 2019. You can find it here:
www.amazon.com/Expedition-Parents-Family-Extraordinary-Quest/dp/1631525921
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| 0:00.0 | In an environment like that, you cannot make a mistake. |
| 0:04.0 | There was no room to lose an item of gear. |
| 0:07.3 | You know, every day putting your tent up was like this meticulous, you know, |
| 0:11.7 | surgery almost to make sure that you clip everything in so it can't get blown away and you stake it properly, etc. |
| 0:21.5 | This is the Adventure Sports Podcast. |
| 0:24.2 | Trying to help you find adventure every day in any stage of life. |
| 0:27.8 | You're going to hear from explorers, adventures, business owners, |
| 0:32.1 | and anyone living their life a little more out of the box than usual. |
| 0:43.4 | Okay. A little more out of the box than usual. Hey folks, I got family here this week, so I can't spend a whole lot of time talking to the |
| 0:48.7 | intro. |
| 0:49.1 | I'm sure you're excited about that. |
| 0:51.1 | Funny enough, today's episode features a lot of discussion about family dynamics around |
| 0:55.8 | adventure with Chris Fagan and her husband, Marty, who decided to basically ski almost 600 miles |
| 1:02.6 | to the South Pole and talked about logistically how they figured it out with having a 12-year-old |
| 1:07.8 | son with friends and family. Crazy, crazy. Absolutely crazy. But as you'll |
| 1:12.7 | hear, they are not one-timer adventurers. They are serial, lifelong adventures, have done some |
| 1:18.7 | incredible things. In their book, Expedition, I'm sorry, the expedition is coming out. Two |
| 1:24.7 | Parents risk life and family in an extraordinary quest to the South Pole. It's coming out soon. Please check it out. Two parents risk life and family in an extraordinary quest to the South Pole. |
| 1:28.5 | It's coming out soon. Please check it out. Everything you need to know is in the show notes for where to |
| 1:33.7 | find the book, how to buy it. Today's episode is brought to us by Athletic Brewing, the makers of |
| 1:38.7 | non-alcoholic craft beer. After any adventure, I love to celebrate with a beer, but, you know, |
| 1:44.0 | not everyone wants the effect of alcohol. Some of us just love the taste of craft beer. After any adventure, I love to celebrate with a beer, but, you know, not everyone wants the effect of alcohol. Some of us just love the taste of craft beer. Check out athletic brewing. As well as CS Instant Coffee, I wake up every morning. The only thing in my life that's consistent is coffee. And that doesn't matter if I'm in the backcountry or in my kitchen. I want coffee. And so if I go to the backcountry, I take CS Instant with me to make it easy, convenient, |
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