Rachel welcomes Karen Darke back to The Wyrd World after her intrepid trip to the South Pole. We find out what it took to get her there. What physical trials she encountered from the prospect of being paralysed from the Chest down and the lasting effects it has left on her since her return?
The POLE OF POSSIBILITY (POP) is a World- First and Guinness World-record breaking journey to the South Pole in which the team will explore personal and planetary possibility around mindset, technology and sustainability.
Paralympian Karen Darke and team will cycle and ski across the Antarctic plateau using enabling technology to explore the value of nature. Karen, paralysed from the chest down will unravel the process and mindsets that have helped to navigate tough mental, emotional and physical challenges. The team will explore the power of nature and its critical role in keeping humans and the planet in balance and wellness.
The journey into the icy Antarctic wilds will be with film-maker Mike Webster who will record the expedition through a documentary film, and Professor Mike Christie of Aberystwyth University who will use the expedition as a research platform to demonstrate the impacts of climate change on the Antarctic continent and how this has wider impacts to people and nature across the world.
The Team’s vision is to ‘inspire through exploration’. Through this unique expedition, the POLE OF POSSIBILITY Team will demonstrate what is possible when we seek the growth in difficult challenges, and highlight how interactions with nature can keep ourselves and our planet in a state of health & and wellness.
WHY?
Their mission is to promote possibility thinking: with enabling technology, team and mindset, we can all make our world healthier, more sustainable and happy.
The team hope to encourage people to see the opportunities in adversity and diversity, to recognise the value of nature for physical and mental well-being, and to catalyse thinking on sustainable living.
At the age of 21, Karen had a life changing rock-climbing accident that left her paralysed from the chest down. Karen’s spirit of adventure and love for nature helped her overcome adversity to become a paralympic gold medallist and to also undertake numerous expeditions including hand-cycling across the Himalayas and to climb one of the World’s biggest rock walls ‘El Capitan’. The POLE OF POSSIBILITY will be Karen’s biggest adventure to date. Her paralysis not only create enormous physical challenges for travelling across the frozen Antarctic plateau, but the extreme cold will also have significant physiological impacts on Karen’s body.
The POLE OF POSSIBILITY will also be a World and Guinness Record:, a World First for a female to sit-ski to the South Pole and a World Record for the furthest distance ever taken to the Pole by sit-ski.
Catch up with Karen's preparation to Antartica episode: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0FfnLpvpfSFcWSqV3WIKFN?si=l8gShbusQpaRezjxAWuzoQ
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