All Posts for Category: Recognition

Jane Walker by Johnnie Walker Brings Together First Women

December 11, 2020/in Recognition /by Vanessa O'Brien

Why Its Important To Tell Women Stories

December 11, 2020/in Recognition /by Vanessa O'Brien

Johnnie Walker Brings Together Networks of Women

December 10, 2020/in Recognition /by Vanessa O'Brien

Jane Walker by Johnnie Walker Brings Together First Women

December 10, 2020/in Recognition /by Vanessa O'Brien

First Woman Campaign Celebrates Women Breaking Boundaries

December 10, 2020/in Recognition /by Vanessa O'Brien

First Person To Reach The Top of Chimborazo and The Bottom of Challenger Deep

June 12, 2020/in Recognition /by Vanessa O'Brien

First Woman to Reach Earth’s Highest and Lowest Points

June 12, 2020/in Recognition /by Vanessa O'Brien

Vanessa O’Brien Receives SES Explorer Award

December 31, 2018/in Recognition /by Vanessa O'Brien

SES 2018 Award Winners

December 31, 2018/in Recognition /by Vanessa O'Brien

NYC Mayor recognizes O’Brien for Charity Service

April 1, 2018/in Recognition /by Vanessa O'Brien

NYC Mayor Recognizes O’Brien for Charity Service

April 1, 2017/in Recognition /by Vanessa O'Brien

Guinness World Records 2017

December 1, 2016/in Recognition /by Vanessa O'Brien

2015 Mountaineering

December 31, 2015/in Recognition /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.

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