All Posts for Category: Affiliations

O’Brien Raises $1m to Help Children

August 29, 2026/in Affiliations /by Vanessa O'Brien

Kentucky Colonel Adds Names; Helps Children

August 29, 2026/in Affiliations /by Vanessa O'Brien

Polish-Americans to add 1,000 Names

August 29, 2026/in Affiliations /by Vanessa O'Brien

O’Brien Leads Wall of Remembrance

August 29, 2026/in Affiliations /by Vanessa O'Brien

Climb EVERY Mountain – Kilimanjaro for Kidscape

December 17, 2025/in Affiliations /by Vanessa O'Brien

A Nature Deficit Is Amongst Us

September 16, 2025/in Affiliations /by Vanessa O'Brien

O’Brien Discusses A Nature Deficit

September 16, 2025/in Affiliations /by Vanessa O'Brien

O’Brien joins 20th Anniversary of Szcyrzyc Summer Camp

July 15, 2025/in Affiliations /by Vanessa O'Brien

SES Endorses Global Plastics Survey

April 4, 2025/in Affiliations /by Vanessa O'Brien

To Reach Out into The Unknown

November 14, 2024/in Affiliations /by Vanessa O'Brien

Hon Ambassador O’Brien Discusses Sherpa

May 23, 2024/in Affiliations /by Vanessa O'Brien

Dr. Jane Goodall and Vanessa O’Brien feature in Awesome Women Card Game

March 24, 2024/in Affiliations /by Vanessa O'Brien

Slovak Women in Space

October 18, 2022/in Affiliations /by Vanessa O'Brien

Grade 3: Journey into the Deep

March 21, 2022/in Affiliations /by Vanessa O'Brien

Exploring the Greatest Heights and Depths

March 9, 2022/in Affiliations /by Vanessa O'Brien

Grade 4: Journey to the Bottom of the World Lesson Plan

January 4, 2022/in Affiliations /by Vanessa O'Brien

Grade 5/6: Journey to the Bottom of the World

January 3, 2022/in Affiliations /by Vanessa O'Brien

Grade 4: Journey to the Bottom of the World

January 3, 2022/in Affiliations /by Vanessa O'Brien

From Turning Point to High Point

November 21, 2021/in Affiliations /by Vanessa O'Brien

10 Famous MBAs From NYU Stern

July 8, 2021/in Affiliations /by Vanessa O'Brien

NWHM Facts and Virtual Events – Women’s History Month

March 1, 2021/in Affiliations /by Vanessa O'Brien

Exploring the Greatest Heights and Depths

February 25, 2021/in Affiliations /by Vanessa O'Brien

Explorer Vanessa O’Brien Speaks at Slovak American Cultural Center

February 25, 2021/in Affiliations /by Vanessa O'Brien

Vanessa O’Brien Joins 2021 AAC Host Committee

January 25, 2021/in Affiliations /by Vanessa O'Brien

SES Welcomes O’Brien as Honorary Advisory Board Member

December 31, 2020/in Affiliations /by Vanessa O'Brien

The Graduate – Vanessa O’Brien

December 20, 2020/in Affiliations /by Vanessa O'Brien

SES Welcomes Four New Honorary Advisory Board Members

July 17, 2020/in Affiliations /by Vanessa O'Brien

Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney awards O’Brien Fearless Girl

May 17, 2019/in Affiliations /by Vanessa O'Brien

O’Brien Joins TEC Board

March 22, 2019/in Affiliations /by Vanessa O'Brien

O’Brien Presents K2 The Final Conquest to SES Members

October 30, 2018/in Affiliations /by Vanessa O'Brien

K2 Summit in First Republic Annual Report

April 23, 2018/in Affiliations /by Vanessa O'Brien

O’Brien to Speak at 16th CEO Summit Asia

December 11, 2017/in Affiliations /by Vanessa O'Brien

O’Brien MR’13 Makes History on K2

November 10, 2017/in Affiliations /by Vanessa O'Brien

O’Brien Takes Red Cross Flag to K2

August 21, 2017/in Affiliations /by Vanessa O'Brien

O’Brien Successfully Completes Boston Marathon

April 18, 2017/in Affiliations /by Vanessa O'Brien

Appoints O’Brien to Advisory Board

September 26, 2016/in Affiliations /by Vanessa O'Brien

O’Brien Becomes Global Affairs Sports Ambassador

September 1, 2016/in Affiliations /by Vanessa O'Brien

Vanessa O’Brien at The Gilkey Memorial on K2

September 1, 2016/in Affiliations /by Vanessa O'Brien

Vanessa O’Brien Brings Back Glacier Samples from K2

September 22, 2015/in Affiliations /by Vanessa O'Brien

O’Brien to Join Tim Jarvis to Climb for Climate Change

September 14, 2015/in Affiliations /by Vanessa O'Brien

The Importance of Sports for Women & Girls

August 12, 2015/in Affiliations /by Vanessa O'Brien

Explorer Tests Bullet Proof Jacket

October 1, 2014/in Affiliations /by Vanessa O'Brien

Vanessa O’Brien summits Manaslu with The Explorers Club flag

September 22, 2014/in Affiliations /by Vanessa O'Brien

O’Brien Takes Flag To North Pole

April 9, 2013/in Affiliations /by Vanessa O'Brien

First Republic Clients & Community

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

Boston College Club Flag To The Top Of The World

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

About Vanessa O’Brien

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

Her story of overcoming adversity and transformation unfolds in her book, To The Greatest Heights: Facing Danger, Finding Humility and Climbing A Mountain of Truth, Simon and Schuster (2021), described by many readers as one the most honest and riveting adventure autobiographies ever written.

Vanessa has an incredible six Guinness World Records: Only, First, Fastest, Deepest, Farthest and Oldest. Vanessa is the only woman to reach extremes on land, sea, and air (the Explorers' Extreme Trifecta) following her mission on Blue Origin's NS-22 to 107km. Vanessa was the first woman to reach earth’s highest and lowest points, (Mt. Everest 8,848m) and (Challenger Deep 10,925m), with the latter being deeper than Mt. Everest is tall. She is the fastest woman to climb the Seven Summits in 295 days, and the first person to reach nearest to and farthest from the earth's core (Challenger Deep and the summit of Chimborazo.)

Vanessa is the first woman to complete the Four Poles Challenge, going the farthest north * south * east * west from the top of Everest to the bottom of Challenger Deep to skiing the last degree to the geographic North and South Poles. She holds the record for the oldest woman to summit K2, the second tallest peak, at 52 years old.

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

Vanessa summitted the highest peak on every continent, receiving a Guinness World Record for the fastest time a woman first achieved this goal (295 days.) Vanessa has skied the last 111 km to the north and south poles completing the Explorers Grand Slam in 11 months, 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 vests with a .38 long revolver at point blank range, and rode 200 mph with Mario Andretti at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

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