It's an adventurer's challenge few have ever attempted.
Now a Ph.D. student, Vogel is conducting research at TWU while her Australian University remains off-limits due to COVID restrictions.
While in Denton, she’s working to develop a nutritional product that will help athletes in extreme temperatures, a situation she knows well."That was definitely the coldest and most remote environment I'd ever been in," she said."At one point, we started running low on food and things seemed pretty bad. We were stuck in a bad storm. I ended up even getting some frostbite on some of my toes, so it was a crazy experience.
“What the Explorers Grand Slam is is you climb all the Seven Summits to the highest peak on each continent, and then you ski the last degree to the South Pole and to the North Pole,” she said. The latter of which is all that remains for Vogel to complete a challenge only a few dozen people have before her."You're basically floating around on a sheet of ice," said Vogel."So where you go to bed one night might not be where you wake up the next morning, and there are breaks in the ice. So you may have to sometimes go into the water and come back out of the water. And then there are polar bears, so you have to carry protection for polar bears.
For the next year, she’ll continue to train running long distances at high altitudes while pulling heavy weight."The number one thing I always want people to take away with them is that your mind is so much stronger than you think," said Vogel."And so even if things are not going the way you want them to, and you know it's not how you had envisioned it turning out, you always have a little bit left in reserve. So you can always count on yourself to get yourself through.
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