The Poles Project The Poles Project is the latest in a series of adventures by Irish Adventurer Mike O Shea .
A Pole Of Inaccessibility is defined as the location furthest from a particular coastline
The phrase originally coined to describe the most difficult point to reach in the Arctic by Vilihjalmur Stefansson in the 1920s it is now used to describe the points on the worlds largest landmasses which are furthest from the coastline. These points by their nature vary hugely across the continents, but ar
05/22/2018
Check out Mike O' Shea chatting to RTÉ Today last Friday. His piece starts 8 minutes in ! https://www.rte.ie/player/ie/show/today-with-maura-and-daithi-30001768/10881096/
Watch Today with Maura and Daithi online Maura and Daithi chat to adventurer Mick O'Shea, businesswomen Jackie Lavin and chat about the royal wedding.
05/18/2018
Tune into RTÉ Today from 3.30pm to see Mike chat to Maura and Daithi about his recent Africa trip and his adventures in general.
04/26/2018
As of last night the guys were in the South West of the Democratic Republic of Congo. They have been pushing hard , and had a few "interesting" moments - hopefully we will get a blog update in a few days when they reach somewhere a bit more safe and can regroup a bit. Dont forget you can track their daily progress on https://mikeoshea.ie/africa-tracking/
04/14/2018
Seems travelling across Africa is not without its headaches ;-)
03/26/2018
Mission 3 of The Poles Project is GO! Di**le - Cape Town via the African Pole of Inaccessibility
Mike and David left Dublin at 2pm on Friday afternoon and have covered ALOT of milage since! They are currently in Casablanca! Keep up to date here -
Help/Information needed.
Does anyone have contacts on the ground either with an aid agency or working in the following. Uganda, Central African Republic and South Sudan. Particularly someone working on the World Food Programme in Uganda. Thanks in Advance. Mike
So we are 146km for Cochabamba and there has been two road slides 50km ahead so we are stopped up for the night. The queue of trucks gets longer and longer and there is no update only that a car and driver were taken with today's slide, so it's a waiting game, or take a 10hr detour to get to the same distance we are on a road that may have the same issues. So it's a case of listen to the rain drops and birds and insects, and get up at 4.30am to have another go.
After much arguing Mike made it across the border from Brazil to Bolivia. He is now in Santa Cruz, Bolivia on his way towards the coast in Chile .
12/07/2016
While Mike is having absolute nightmare issues with visas and borders in Brazil / Bolivia this morning here is a happy photo of the Grand Canyon from last week :-)
12/05/2016
Pole 2 : South America - DONE !! After a non stop 2040 mile driving marathon Mike reached the Pole Of Inaccessibility in northern Brazil. On now to the west coast !
Today Mike drove over 1000 miles straight ... on his own. In weather like this !!
