When Martin Frey set out to climb Mount Kilimanjaro, he had no inkling it'd be the start of an 11-year mission that would take him across continents, through oceans and potentially win him a place in the Guinness Book of World Records.
"I
was simply doing a safari thing and thought Kilimanjaro would be a fun
challenge," says the 56-year-old from Utah. "It was just an add-on to
the trip."
Four years later, after he successfully scaled Alaska's Denali, he got the idea of tackling the highest summits in every continent.
In
the years that followed, he tackled these "seven summits" one by one:
South America's Mount Aconcagua, Asia's Mount Everest, Europe's Mount
Elbrus and Oceania's Carstensz Pyramid.
He completed the mission in 2012 when he made it to the top of Antarctica's Mount Vinson.
Two months later, he decided to tackle the seven seas.
He
started by sailing across the North Atlantic -- from Gibraltar to Saint
Martin -- in 2013 on his Lagoon 560 catamaran, AMARA. After conquering his last mountain, Frey sought out an activity that
would allow him to include his wife and seven-year-old daughter, Lily
This makes him, he says, the first person to have ever climbed the
world's seven summits and sailed the seven seas (Guinness World Records
is in the process of corroborating).
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