Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.

This plane lands me out on the edge of the Antarctic continent takes off.

I'm all alone out there, right?

Like I'm, I've dropped off alone.

And, well, actually, you had mentioned before there was another guy out there,

which is important to mention at this point because another British explorer,

one of the, actually the most experienced in the world in terms of amount of miles traversed in Antarctica and various other projects, he also decides that he wants to try to be the first.

So not only am I now racing history, but this guy's a British Navy SEAL equivalent, you know, Special Forces guy, his name's Lou Rudd, and he's like a badass, and he wants to do this as well. It was his friend who died three years ago, he's doing that to honor him, and I got a lot of respect for all. I mean, there's a camaraderie as well, of course. And we both know what we're going through, but we also both clearly want to be first.

And he's looking at me like, who's this, you know, bit younger guy who doesn't have the real experience in Antarctica? Who does he think he is? And I'm kind of like trying to be like confident in my plan. And so plane drops us off, we're at a mile apart from each other, equidistant from the first waypoint, the first like GPS marker on the map. And I get out there and I've got this video of me being like, it's a blue sky day. It's great. After all year of planning, it's finally time for me to like try to cross Antarctica. I'm taking the first step and I bend down and to pull the strap on my sled to tighten it for the first time and ping the strap breaks. Literally the strap breaks. Like it's minus 25 and the plastic can't handle it breaks. So right out of the gate I'm like, wow, this is going to be a long journey. It's before the first step. So then I strap into my sled and the sled's the heaviest on the first day, 375 pounds to start was about the maximum I thought I could pull. so I put as much food as I could, even though I knew I was going to burn 10,000 calories per day, and I factored I could carry about 7,000 calories. So I was going to lose weight every single day straight from the get-go, even eating 7,000 calories. That's how intense and cold it is. And so I start pulling my sled, and you asked me before about sweat. About one hour in,

I'm sweating. And I'm like, wait, this sled's so heavy, but I can't not pull it without

sweating. And so I start sweating. Then I realize I actually don't think I can pull the sled

and I start crying. I literally start crying. But what happens when you cry when it's minus 25

degrees out? It freezes to your face.

So I have frozen tears to my face and I'm one hour, two hours into this journey.

And so I do the only thing I can think of is I call home to Jenna.

Wow.

And so I pick up the phone and I go, hey babe, yeah, we may have named our project the right thing.

It appears to be impossible because we had called it the impossible first.

And she's like, uh, uh-oh, and so she tries to, you know, she's like, okay, well, and meanwhile,

I'm seeing Lou disappear on the horizon with this beautiful, ski stroke like totally knows what he's doing

like strong and steady out there and like at this one I can't even think about the fact that

there's a race in place I mean I'm just trying to like get through the first day and so she says

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