All posts for Year: 2012

Vanessa O’Brien and Mike Hamill Arrive at South Pole

December 31, 2012/in Explorers Grand Slam /by Vanessa O'Brien

First Republic Clients & Community

December 1, 2012/in Affiliations /by Vanessa O'Brien

Top of Carstensz Pyramid

September 28, 2012/in Explorers Grand Slam /by Vanessa O'Brien

Top of Carstensz Pyramid

September 1, 2012/in Explorers Grand Slam /by Vanessa O'Brien

Boston College Club Flag To The Top Of The World

July 1, 2012/in Affiliations /by Vanessa O'Brien

2012 Everest List

May 9, 2012/in Explorers Grand Slam /by Vanessa O'Brien

Everest Summits Facebook Page

May 9, 2012/in Explorers Grand Slam /by Vanessa O'Brien

Vanessa O’Brien Profile

January 1, 2012/in Explorers Grand Slam /by Vanessa O'Brien

About Vanessa O’Brien

Vanessa O’Brien is a British mountaineer and an American mountaineer (as a result of her dual nationality), explorer, aquanaut, author, and public speaker.

Vanessa is the First Woman to Reach Earth’s Highest and Lowest Points, a Guinness World Record she received after summiting Mt. Everest (8,848m) in 2012 and diving in a submersible to the eastern pool of Challenger Deep (10,925m) in 2020.

She became the first American woman to summit K2 and the first British woman to successfully summit K2, receiving Explorer of the Year by the SES for her efforts in 2018. She is a Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society and an Honorary Advisory Board member of the Scientific Exploration Society (SES).

Vanessa climbed the highest peak on every continent, receiving a Guinness World Record setting a record for the fastest time a woman first achieved this goal (295 days). Vanessa has skied the last 111 km to the South and North Poles completing the Explorers Grand Slam in 11 months, becoming the first woman to do so in under a year and the 8th woman in the world. Vanessa ran the Boston Marathon in 2017, helping to raise money for the American Red Cross, has been shot testing bulletproof clothing at point blank range by Miguel Caballero with a .38 long revolver, and also reached 200 mph riding with Mario Andretti at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in 2018.