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For two years, every answer Connor Emeny got was no.
Tour operators quoted $150,000 just to attempt a swim.
Nobody swims in Antarctica.
Every expert said it was impossible.
In his training, he hiked into the mountains above Vancouver and cut ice lanes out of frozen water.
He could not last two minutes.
The goal was four kilometers in a -1°C ocean.
The math did not work.
But he could not stop thinking about it.
He calls it iron will: the inability to let a goal die even when every signal says it should.
He kept calling. Kept training. Kept showing up at the ice lane that rejected him every morning.
Two years later, he was on a boat to Antarctica with seven people, no doctor, and no guarantee it would work.
He chose his brother and his mother over a bigger safety crew because belief mattered more than backup.
Today, he joined us on The Hard Way to share his story.
🎧 Tune into the full episode and learn more.
https://youtu.be/urxftAdjQz4
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