BVA member and extreme adventure athlete Lonnie Bedwell has conquered still more superhuman, near-impossible feats in his quest, among other things, to climb the highest peaks on all seven of the world’s continents.

Flying onto the ice-covered continent of Antarctica on November 27 from Punta Arenas, Chile, he and his Sightless Summits companion, Bryan Hill, headed to the Ellsworth Mountains to climb Mount Vinson, the continent’s highest peak. That climb occurred December 3.

After additional preparations and conditioning, they flew on December 9 to the last latitude degree in the world. They disembarked on the polar plateau nearly 70 miles from the actual South Pole and set off skiing while pulling a heavy sled. The expedition would take six days as they reached their South Pole destination on December 15. Lonnie flew home from South America in time for the holidays, arriving in Dugger, Indiana, on December 22!

Read a preview of Lonnie’s adventure that includes a video interview, accompanied also by updates from Antarctica, courtesy of WTWO-TV and mywabashvalley.com, based in Terre Haute, Indiana.