Uploaded a few podcasts from my interview with Mark Pollock (pictured), who went blind ten years ago, and started a career as an adventurer/professional speaker, taking on some of the world’s most incredible challenges.

He’s run the North Pole marathon, the Everest Base Camp Marathon, and plenty more besides, including New Zealand’s gruelling Coast-to-Coast race. But being blind, his appreciation of the mountaintop is slightly different from yours or mine. In the first podcast here, he talks about what’s going through his mind when others are taking in the view from the top.

[audio:http://expad.ie/audio/Pollock2.mp3|titles=Blind Perspective]

His next challenge is the Amundsen Omega 3 South Pole Race – more than a month of sub-zero slog to the south pole, the first time since the original race people have taken on each other, as well as the elements, en route to the pole. In podcast two, Mark opens up about the question of what it’s going to be like, and whether or not he can actually finish the race, and become the first blind person to do so.

[audio:http://expad.ie/audio/Pollock4.mp3|titles=Is It Possible?]

And to wrap it up, he gives us a brief description of what it is that drives him to do the things he does. Enjoy!

[audio:http://expad.ie/audio/Pollock3.mp3|titles=Possibility of failure]

Mark’s website, where you can buy space on his South Pole flag.