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Vincent Colliard

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🇫🇷🇳🇴Polar Explorer in ❤️ with 🥶
Fastest 🫏 to reach the South Pole 🇦🇶
Athlete @norrona @helsport @alfaoutdoor_
Partner @ousland.colliard exped

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Sh*** happened ☠️. Crevasse fall! Miraculously, no injury or more… just a scary moment where life’s balance was on the edge.

This occurred when we were on an exit arm glacier of the Agassiz icecap. Since, we let it sink in and decided to be transparent about it. We did big mistakes. We let our guard down as we were tired (26 days of hard labor on the body) and maybe acted too confident about what we were doing.

We know the drills though… blocking knot connected to the back of the sleds, max tension on the rope, easy access to the crevasse rescue kit / carrying it and so on.

Our guard is right back up with triple precautions 😤. We are still on the way to attempt an unsupported full crossing of Ellesmere island 🇨🇦. It was a magical moment to see the light of the sun again and away from the darkness of that hole 🥵.

#welcometonature by @vincentcolliard

🇫🇷 ET VOILÀ 🇳🇴! New speed record in Antarctica! Hercules Inlet (Dec 20th 2023 at 0852) to the South Pole (Jan 11th 2023 at 1500) solo & unsupported : 1132km in 22 days, 6 hours and 8 min. Average: 51 km /day. Time & track recorded by @antarcticlogistics. (All previous posts - archives - have been done by Caro. Now I am back online). Thanks to all of you who followed the journey and send some great comments (that I just read)!

I am still confused on how it somehow worked out and where did I find the energy to keep on skiing. Maybe because I rebuilt strength from the last minute canceled North Pole expedition but most importantly because I am surrounded by great and genuine people, married to a polar ninja and soon to become a father. The stars were correctly aligned despite the powder and the white out for the first half of the journey. I always keep in mind what Amundsen said about creating your own luck…

To my friend Christian Eide. In 2011, you established the speed record in 24 days, 1 hour and 13 min. Christian, I didn’t beat your record. You pushed myself to the edge and WE improved the time. Even if I was solo on the ice, it is to me a team effort. Without you and the help of Lars, I don’t think I would have pulled it off. Moreover, when you established the record, you didn’t have no one to beat but yourself. In my case, I knew your daily distances and it helped me pushing further. Always easier to break a record than to establish it (?)…

Will I apply for the Guinness World Records? No. I am not here for the fame and I don’t share the trajectory and the values of this organization (e.g recognizing records for guided expeditions and other categories that do not make sense to me). Also, with the current wars on the planet at the moment, it doesn’t feel right to me to claim that record.

Thanks to my wife @caro.line.cote, my good friend @maria.f.witchell, these legends @polarlars and @borgeousland, also @janstol, @margretha.flatland, @lucas_mao24, @runekrogh_beyondlimits, Greg M,
the team @helsport and the whole family @antarcticlogistics in Union Glacier and at the South Pole camp who had been SO supportive!

📸 @steinretzlaff by @vincentcolliard

Polar bear training style 🐻‍❄️. My fascination for the polar regions takes me to enjoy this rare moments feeling like a wild animal! And striving to find my place in the polar eco-system. Couldn’t have dreamt of a better honeymoon 🍯🏖😅.

🎥 @caro.line.cote ❤️

ps: this was not part of ´Parad Ice Moon’ - the circumnavigation unsupported of Bylot Island in 18 days - but part of a post-expedition training further out from the shore of the island.

#welcometonature #seaice #survivalskills #arctic #ice #polarbear #coldbath #polarexplorer #exploration #canadianarctic by @vincentcolliard

Our preparations for the South Pole last degree expedition, departing in December this year, are well underway!

We were warmly welcomed at @snooslo , just outside Oslo, for Day 2 of our polar expedition training. The focus was on developing and refining our skiing techniques and building confidence on the skis.

Every training session is an important step towards the ultimate goal: reaching the South Pole through teamwork and determination!

One step, one ski stride, and one day at a time — the adventure is getting closer!

@brynjeofnorway @norrona @alfaoutdoor_ @teampiteraq @asnes1922
#polarlab #polartraining #polarexpedition by @vincentcolliard

Want to feel small together?

Join us on an expedition!

#ouslandexplorers #ouslandcolliard #greenland #antarctica #expedition by @vincentcolliard

There’s no real way to describe what it feels like to leave everything behind for the ice!

#polarexpedition by @vincentcolliard

We often get asked:
“Are you a guiding company?”

No.
We are polar explorers.

Exploration is what drives us. It’s who we are.

Since 1994, we’ve crossed the Arctic and Antarctica, skied to the poles, and pushed into places where there are no trails, no infrastructure, and no guarantees.

We invite you to join us.

Not as tourists.
Not as clients on a guided trip.

But as participants in real expeditions sharing the challenges, the uncertainty, and the experience of life in the polar regions.

We don’t start with guiding and add exploration.
We start with exploration.

That’s the difference.

@ousland.colliard.explorers
Polar explorers first. by @vincentcolliard

🧨BOOM🧨! She’s back. 35 days. From south to north. Spitsbergen crossed on skis, leading the group she was guiding. Caroline just came home.

Back in 2021, we took on that island together - 63 days (skiing out and back from Longyearbyen), in the heart of winter, fully unsupported, chasing the first winter traverse. That’s what people tend to remember about that expedition. Not me.

What I remember, deep in the Arctic winter, moisture seeping into everything, no sun at all for the first three weeks, discomfort pushed to the extreme, a thermometer reading -38°C in the morning… is that we never blame each other. Not one time. It’s on that ice that the foundations of our relationship were laid, and then of our marriage.

Today, watching her head back out there to guide and take responsibility for a group makes me immensely proud.

Fascinated by the Vikings, we named our son Leif. When I look at Caroline, I see a warrior. One of those who, a thousand years ago, would have carved her name into the sagas, her gaze turned toward the far North. Without ever complaining.

Deeply inspired by this woman who pushes her limits. And with her, ours. Thank you, and welcome home babe ❤️ by @vincentcolliard

🇺🇸 Very honoured to have been selected with Børge Ousland among the 33 visionary changemakers of 2026 by National Geographic for our efforts through the Icelegacy project 🙏

🇫🇷 Très honoré d’avoir été sélectionné avec Børge Ousland parmi les 33 personnalités visionnaires de 2026 par National Geographic, en reconnaissance de notre engagement à travers le projet Icelegacy 🥶 by @vincentcolliard

Entre banquise instable, crevasses invisibles et dérive constante, @vincentcolliard apprend à composer avec un environnement aussi fascinant que fragile et changeant.
Explorateur et guide polaire, il a battu le record masculin en atteignant le pôle Sud en 22 jours, 6 heures et 8 minutes. Mais au-delà de la performance, il questionne le sens même de l’aventure.

Dans cet épisode, enregistré au @banffmountainfestival , on parle de peur, de vulnérabilité, de cette chute qui change un rapport au risque… mais aussi de ce qui nous pousse à partir.
De notre besoin de nous éloigner d’un quotidien saturé de bruit, d’images et d’attentes. Et de cette tension permanente entre quête personnelle, image renvoyée… et engagement pour quelque chose de plus grand.

À travers le projet @icelegacyproject , Vincent cherche désormais à donner un autre sens à ses expéditions : témoigner, alerter, et créer un lien entre aventure et enjeux climatiques.

Un échange qui questionne notre rapport à l’aventure… et à ce qu’on choisit vraiment de mettre en avant.

Bonne écoute ✨ (l’episode est dispo sur toutes les plateformes, lien en biooo) by @vincentcolliard

We are honored to be selected as National Geographic 33 changemakers from around the globe committed to making the world a better place. With the @icelegacyproject @vincentcolliard and I are crossing the 20 largest icefields on Earth to show why snow and ice matter for all life.

@NatGeo #NatGeo33
@vitaepronorge
@norrøna
@devold
@helsport
#ClimateAction
#ClimateScience
@ouslandcolliardexplorers by @vincentcolliard

« Bluffant, émouvant, prodigieux » @europe1
« L’handicap comme on le voit rarement ! Une lumière au fond du désespoir » @telerama
« Une aventure humaine hors du commun » Screen+
« Sublime » @teleloisirs

La presse est conquise mais toi? Ça tombe bien le film sort aujourd’hui:
📺 @canalplus Docs à 21h
On est heureux 🥰🔥❤️‍🔥

Un film de @michelgarciasamino
Écrit par @michelgarciasamino et Maxime Didelot
Avec @maximecabanne @vincentcolliard @caro.line.cote
Une production @gedeonmediagroup
Un film Canal+Docs
Images @michelgarciasamino @leo.euphrasie @la.frech @philip_halv
Montage Maxime Didelot
Musique Antoine Furic, @smileandburn @theflatliners @dead.neck @jakemorley @bearsdenmusic @crustcrustwell @tidesofman @novoamor @lowswimmer @thetroubledsea

Merci
@cliniqueiniceamarienia @fondationclariane @clariane_group @laowafr @sony.france @digitaccessfr @patagonia @picture_organic_clothing @groupeclim by @vincentcolliard