All Posts for Category: Book

To The Greatest Heights

March 31, 2022/in Book /by Vanessa O'Brien

Vanessa O’Brien on Exploration

March 31, 2022/in Book /by Vanessa O'Brien

SES Recommends O’Brien’s To The Greatest Heights

December 31, 2021/in Book /by Vanessa O'Brien

Banker Turned Full Time Mountaineer

September 24, 2021/in Book /by Vanessa O'Brien

Aviva Helps People With Online Academy

September 15, 2021/in Book /by Vanessa O'Brien

Book Recommendations – To The Greatest Heights

September 13, 2021/in Book /by Vanessa O'Brien

To The Greatest Heights Book Review

June 6, 2021/in Book /by Vanessa O'Brien

Meditation, Focus and No Ego

May 18, 2021/in Book /by Vanessa O'Brien

Serial Adventurer O’Brien On What It Takes To Reach The Summits

May 16, 2021/in Book /by Vanessa O'Brien

British-American Explorer Aims For The Stars

May 8, 2021/in Book /by Vanessa O'Brien

British-American Explorer Aims For The Stars

May 8, 2021/in Book /by Vanessa O'Brien

I Could Never Say No To Space

May 8, 2021/in Book /by Vanessa O'Brien

British-American Explorer Reaches For The Stars

May 8, 2021/in Book /by Vanessa O'Brien

I Could Never Say No To Space

May 8, 2021/in Book /by Vanessa O'Brien

Record Setting Explorer Pens Book

May 5, 2021/in Book /by Vanessa O'Brien

To The Greatest Heights

April 30, 2021/in Book /by Vanessa O'Brien

From The Executive Suite to Everest

April 25, 2021/in Book /by Vanessa O'Brien

Culpeper County Library Adds To The Greatest Heights

April 18, 2021/in Book /by Vanessa O'Brien

British-American Explorer Discusses Her Voyage

April 18, 2021/in Book /by Vanessa O'Brien

Vanessa O’Brien Shares Her Story

April 7, 2021/in Book /by Vanessa O'Brien

Reaching Earth’s Highest and Lowest Points

April 6, 2021/in Book /by Vanessa O'Brien

Record Breaking Mountaineer at Greatest Heights

April 6, 2021/in Book /by Vanessa O'Brien

The Start of an Epic Journey

April 4, 2021/in Book /by Vanessa O'Brien

Climbing Mountains, Facing Fears

April 4, 2021/in Book /by Vanessa O'Brien

To The Greatest Heights Author Vanessa O’Brien

April 1, 2021/in Book /by Vanessa O'Brien

The Shark Teeth On Oceania’s Tallest Mountain

March 31, 2021/in Book /by Vanessa O'Brien

The Shark Teeth On Oceania’s Tallest Mountain

March 31, 2021/in Book /by Vanessa O'Brien

The Shark Teeth On Oceania’s Tallest Mountain

March 31, 2021/in Book /by Vanessa O'Brien

Extraordinary Women Featured in NonFiction

March 30, 2021/in Book /by Vanessa O'Brien

Author: Vanessa O’Brien

March 30, 2021/in Book /by Vanessa O'Brien

To The Greatest Heights Book Review

March 29, 2021/in Book /by Vanessa O'Brien

Why O’Brien Left The Corporate World To Climb

March 4, 2021/in Book /by Vanessa O'Brien

Memoirs That Read Like Adventure Stories

March 3, 2021/in Book /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, astronaut, author, and public speaker.

Vanessa has an incredible six Guinness World Records: First x 2, Fastest, Deepest, Farthest and Oldest. Vanessa is the first 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 (Mt. Everest 8,848m) and lowest points (Challenger Deep 10,925m), 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 Geographic 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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