The South Pole Push is a Success!!!  January 2012, a team of polar explorers set out to make history on history, and to give the world a powerful metaphor that regardless of ability (or perceived dis ability) every single one of us has the power to come to the awareness that we can achieve anything we desire in this life!!!

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After nearly two weeks and 75 miles of pushing in his sit-ski, with the help of his incredible teammates, Doug Stoup, Keoki Flagg, Tom Day, Petter Nyquist, and Tal Fletcher - Grant Korgan strapped on standing skis, and skied the final 100′ to the bottom of the world, in -45 degree Fahrenheit conditions!!!  The realization of this dream came to be at 90deg south, with friends, Grant’s wife, and one very shiny South Pole!!! ~75 miles of skiing in 12 straight days of 10 hrs/day exposure to the elements, the team arrived successful, healthy, and stoked!!!  The goal to high five at the bottom of the globe in order to raise awareness of the High Fives Foundation, promote spinal cord injury recovery on a global scale, and highlight the AMAZING enduring human spirit within us all was achieved on the centennial anniversary of the Robert Falcon Scott Terra Nova expedition around 3PM on Jan 17′th 2012!!!

The Beats:
Before Grant left for Antarctica, his friends and family gathered in DJ Neutrino's studio to lay down tracks of encouragement which would be remixed over some of Grant's favorite music.  These songs would then be secretly put onto the iPod Grant planned to use during his multi-week expedition to the bottom of the globe.  With love, encouragement, and a successful level of secrecy, the team pulled it off.  The result was a man surrounded by a frozen world of nothingness, with many miles to go, when he hit play for the first time.  Hearing his friends, family, and Wife's voices, Grant burst into tears, and pushed beyond his limits each day as he successfully became the first spinal cord injured athlete in history to reach the geographic South Pole!!!  Within this album are a few of those remixed songs that pushed Grant to tears, and eventually, toward expedition success!!!

Happy Ending:
In the end, love triumphs over all.  Elated to be in the success of a year-long endeavor, Grant Korgan and his team arrived at the South Pole on the historic Jan. 17 date, topped only by being rewarded with the surprise of his life – his soul mate and wife Shawna was flown to the pole (in secret and as a surprise to Grant) to be there for the arrival of the expedition. Tears, hugs, emotion and pure gratitude filled our team, and all who surrounded this scene (20 people at the pole with another 150 scientists with their faces smashed to the Scott/Amundsen station windows nearby) with the purest joy that is unconditional love.

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***All Imagery: keoki@keokiflagg.com

Grant Korgan

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