Brave, Bold & Very Cold

Multi-record-breaking adaptive adventurer Darren Edwards is attempting a new world record by completing the longest sit-ski expedition in the history of polar exploration.

Paralysed from the chest down and operating at the absolute limit of what is possible for someone with a high-level Spinal Cord Injury (SCI), Darren’s epic attempt to reach the South Pole will see him sit-ski 222 kilometres in just 20 days in -30-degree temperatures during December.

Currently, the furthest distance travelled by a sit-ski to reach the South Pole is 111 kilometres.

Starting at 88° South and ending at 90° South, the Geographical South Pole, Darren will be supported by a team of adventurers made up of British Explorer Lucy Shepherd, Chief Scout Dwayne Fields and award-winning film maker Matthew Biggar.

Skiing through the day and camping at night, the team will be unsupported, facing the risk of extreme temperatures, altitude sickness, exhaustion, and adverse environmental conditions including sastrugi, high winds, snowstorms, and crevasses.

Darren’s mission is not only to break records but to break down barriers, challenge perceptions of disability and empower others to redefine the impossible in their own lives.

Darren hopes to raise £100,000 for the charity ‘Wings for Life’ which seeks to find a cure for Spinal Cord Injury, and funds research and clinical trials globally.

A former mountaineer and Army Reservist, Darren was left permanently paralysed from the chest down in a near-fatal climbing accident in 2016.

Since then, he has kayaked the length of Britain, run seven marathons across seven continents in seven days, skied across the largest icecap in Europe and rowed the English Channel.

To find out more and to donate visit https://www.justgiving.com/page/redefiningimpossible