good afternoon
you imagine what it would be like to survive
in Antarctica a month and a half
absolutely alone without cameras and without
helicopters pulling food without
photographers without partners without
absolutely nothing
I come to share with you how I
I face adversity how to manage
the uncertainty and how he achieved something
seemingly impossible welcome
inside video please or the
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behind the
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let’s start strong
I’m going to tell you a secret, I started juan
without fear
You should call me Juan with fear not
is that do not be afraid is that you have
I learned to live with it I had
the fortune of pedaling through the Amazon
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canadian siberia atacama antarctica
I have been able to coexist with loneliness
with fear and turn it into the one that
has been involved because if I had not had
fear I would not be talking to you now
you photography this the past
2016 of atacama for me uncertainty
is to come out with 25 liters of water in the
tow and know that in five days
I have to get to the next well
because if not live on this way of
life is not free
this photograph is taken in bergen
in Norway where I spent five months at
year working 15 16 17 hours a day
no rest day to be able to continue
doing the expeditions to be able
keep fulfilling my dreams
for me it is very important to do what
I really like my last goal
is to live on expeditions
I dream of pedaling in many places
around the planet he had a vision
after pedaling in Siberia in the
Lake Baikal ice cream
I had the vision to try to be the
first person to reach the south pole in
bicycle was something that took a lot
time thinking 10 12 years but only
there had been an attempt the year
previous before it was the
antarctica a shy attempt by part
of an American who immediately withdrew
preparing the expedition cost me more
two and a half years old there were many
questions to answer
you do something for the first time there are many
unknowns
what kind of bike and I’m going to take that
sled and food
what will happen when the snow
soften and can not roll on the bike
what will happen with my hands
how I’m going to sleep is not the same as
do it with skis and there were people who
has reached the south pole with skis and
has a lot of information
I was twice in Greenland, I was
several several months in Scandinavia in
winter trying to answer all
those issues I even had to
I had to learn to ski become
literally a polar explorer and for
me and especially in the world of
exploration is important that you do
but it is also important how
you do
I’m going to give you an example a bit
utopian but it illustrates it perfectly
if there was an elevator to go up
everest a lot of people would go up but not
it would have the same meaning as the one
climbs up a difficult path
Well, what I’m looking for is linked to the
exploration that sports challenge of
climb a difficult road is why
so I dreamed of going to the south pole
with total autonomy in fact there was
two other expeditions trying to be
the first
they carry support one of them wore
support cars and the other one was going
throwing food from an airplane until in
five occasions
in my case when I tried to do it
completely autonomous autonomous way
means leaving the coast with the
sled loaded with everything you need
try to get to the south pole without any
provisioning
I had to endure comments even from
the base from where they say the last
tests
apart from being Spanish we do not have a
exploration culture as it can be
united states england germany
Norwegian countries where when you say
that you are adventure locker is explored
it’s almost like being a national hero
I got to say Spanish
trying to do something like that
for the love of god go to sunbathe
to málaga that from there you’re fine not what
are you going to get
I had to endure many times that I
they said it was impossible
apart when you try to do something of
completely autonomous way
you go out with food for 42 days and that
implies that you have is that you have to
get there yes or yes if you’re not in
problems of course there were for me
safety comes first and there was a
organized rescue in case of cv of that
Something will happen but it was not simple, and
when the plane leaves you in the bay of
Hercules leaves and you stay there only
with 1,200 kilometers ahead up
the South Pole
the feeling is really overwhelming
there is no one there are no coffee shops
hotels there is no vegetation there is no
animals there are no toilets and showers
there is absolutely nothing is an environment
very unhappy tablet then I was
very prepared for that moment because
I knew it would be very hard one
goal as large as 1,200
kilometers to the south pole is
overwhelming
you have to divide the objectives that’s why
from the beginning I concentrated on the
strictly the next hour
absolutely the next hour of my
nothing else
and from there to make decisions
of course the expedition in
looking at it strategically from a
global point because if I would not go back
crazy I would face situations of
very much adversity of very many
frustration because the many things
times depending on factors between
external that you can not control it
they complicate like a blizzard or be brought
a video that is very uncomfortable but I
I stopped
he adjusted that he lived did a little bit in
our flesh what is going out and a
day with 12 hours ahead and have
to face adversity and outside
inside video please
you’ll think well nobody sees it because
you do not stay a couple of hours more in the
total sack does not see me nobody does not control me
no one
you can not because you sound you lose
advance your food is very limited
the fuel for the stove for
melt the snow and turn it into water
It is also very limited
you had to go out there with days
like this one and move 30 kilometers
outside as it had some conditions
very difficult at the beginning of the
expedition fell a couple of snowfall
very fat and they left a lot of soft snow
I could not advance as I wanted
near the pole I also had problems
with the gps
I had problems with the fog that I did not
let enough advance and what to
principle could be 35 36 days of
expedition ended up becoming
46 days a month and a half only in the
Antarctica
without cameras and without photographers
no company without the colleague factor
that I call someone to tell you when
these when you feel bad
revengeful quiet gets into the sack that
today I cook I rest and tomorrow it will be
another day tomorrow we go out when everything is going
well it ‘s great
when things go wrong is when you
attitude has to be is absolutely
determinant
four days after arriving at the pole
I was left without food because of those delays
accumulated only had chocolate
drinkable tail cao and oil I mixed it and
resulted in this potion that
we see here I had to survive four
days and four days and I was
very excited because we have no more
time if he had not brought videos
I was very excited
in fact in the base of jining law are
those who controlled the whole subject of
security had to give my position
every 24 hours and they told me
they wanted to go after me that I could not
I asked you to be in food
Would you wait please please
wait I need to try to fulfill my
dream for me is very important
I was so sure of myself to ask
a loan to be able to do the
expedition were the hardest years of
the final crisis of December 2013 in
the 2014
I survived four days like that but the
third day
three days to reach the pole
it’s like when you run out of meals
like a car that runs out of gas
your performance is doing well
and suddenly falls that day that had that
wind that we saw previously had
hallucinations hallucinations very
persistent had had something about
days ago but they were during very
little time but here I had them during
hours saw saw human shadows
vegetation I even saw some cyclists
coming towards me I realized that
they were hallucinations I was very weak
he was so weak that he was afraid of not
be able to assemble the store
campaign if I could not assemble the store
campaign was totally finished
the few forces that I had
They concentrated on not making any mistakes
because if in the middle of the blizzard I’m not
able to assemble the tent
would have been finished well then that
day I slept more hours I owed something more
of the magic potion and to the day
next came out for all I had left
very few kilometers to the south pole
I felt motivated to put the flag
Spanish language and the Asturian flag because
I am a native of Asturias and as a good
Asturian pour cider in the South Pole
It was something that motivates me greatly
it was an incredible experience what
I would do again
I have absolutely no doubt
you will see
I do not consider myself a person
especially talented I assure you
I promise you for nothing I consider myself a
very hard-working person very fighter what
I want to tell you I had to endure
many times they told me it was
impossible that what he was trying was
impossible I believed so much that when I
they said it was impossible
I was asking him why do you think he is
impossible and took a paper and a pen and
I was pointing because I thought it was impossible
and at that time I was trying
analytically decipher how could
solve that problem and alternatives
I had and in the end I achieved something
seemingly impossible
do not let them tell you what is
impossible if you really believe in it
many thanks
to
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