Today i came across very inspiring story of Ben Saunders at TED. Ben basically like to ski. And he went to North pole skiing from Russia to Canada. That's it .. simple to hear.. but may be we need to read it again .. north pole and did i tell you this was solo adventure ? yes it was :) And that's the best part of this thing. There are so many things to admire at such an adventurous attempt starting from the place where where he went, climate conditions at that place, all the meticulous planning this Guy would have done to carry himself through this thing. And he was just 26 at that time. He shares his experiences at TED conference. Actually this is comparatively old story 2004 but i came across the TED video only today. (Well i read it exactly when i needed some inspiration .. ). A very interesting thought he shared which excited my a lot is :
When you are at north pole , the complete earth is below you (well almost we all know its bit tilted but that's not the point here you morons !!) and its rotating very fast .. all happening below your feet .. man hat would the thing to experience and imagine right when you are standing at north pole !!! Though we would not get the perception coz most of the times we would find it flat rather than a single point as north pole. Hence you need to carry some GPS device. One more joke was .. When he reached there and called three people his mom, girl friend , CEO of the sponsor company and all he could reach was 3 voicemail boxes !!! poor world PERIOD.
He also shares some insights into what sort of planning he had to go through it as he had to carry all food,clothes, camera,gps and other cool devices. He was blogging daily when he was on this cool adventure taking photos , videos all along the way .. I specificly loved this part also. Well even though these guys must be living every moment of their success ,they are bound to forget some things when they come back home and try to write it down.. So live blogging would make sure they can capture all the thoughts ... Well i must say he was not the first one to do so on north pole .. So yes guys before him must be more adventurous Its just that I came across this video. May be Ben also does not like this rank and hence wishes to make return trip to south pole all by himself and his skis without using any dog or snow vehicle ...
I do not know what he does for living .. but man i envy his life.. He has not much coding to do .. forget fixing bugs your as well as somebody else .. he travels the world .. plans executes .. next plan .. Also keep visiting great institutions as motivational speaker.What all do you want from the life ? The last thing Ben mentions in this presentation is when he was 13 years old he had got remarks in school progress report that he lacks impetance to achieve anything worthwhile.I love it when life tells us big jokes like this.
For more details don't waste your time reading about some body's blog who reads about other people but go to his site who actually did such thing !!
Thank you Ben for letting us know if you think you can , you really can. No matter what your school progress report said .. You can beat them all if you decide to do so ..And for not acually not believing in that stupid report.
Happy adventuring.
