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Walk before you can run, crawl before you can walk MarkPollockTV 2,169 views Mark Pollock is continuing his Project Walk training programme back in Dublin. Almost a year ago, the blind adventure athlete and business man broke his back and damaged hi...
Mark Pollock reads letters with his Tongue. MarkPollockTV 1,822 views Today, blind adventurer Mark Pollock tested a device called a Brainport. It allows blind people to perceive objects using a camera mounted on glasses which sends the image...
Squats at a walking frame. MarkPollockTV 1,721 views Simon O'Donnell learns the Dardinski method at Project Walk, California so that he can train recently paralysed endurance athlete, Mark Pollock, when they return to Ireland...
Bearing Up. Mark Pollock at Project Walk. MarkPollockTV 1,365 views Lying on the slider of the Total Gym machine, Mark weight bears through his hips, legs and feet. Paralysed legs are prone to brittle bones as the legs don't pound the bones...
Mimicking Walking at Project Walk MarkPollockTV 1,090 views Mark Pollock broke his back in two places in July 2010. Eight months later he is doing an intense physical exercise program at Project Walk in California. The blind adventu...
Back Rowing at Project Walk MarkPollockTV 1,477 views Eight months after breaking his back, now paralysed blind adventurer, Mark Pollock uses rowing to remind his body of how it used to move. The coordination required to row h...
Introducing Team Daft MarkPollockTV 476 views Blind Adventurer Mark Pollock and Air Corps pilot Capt Mick Liddy are taking on the challenge of the 2010 Round Ireland Yacht Race. They'll sail double-handed in a high-p...
South Pole Flag MarkPollockTV 128 views
Gobi March 2003 Part 1 MarkPollockTV 165 views In 2003 Adventure Athlete and Motivational Speaker Mark Pollock ran the Gobi March, completing six gruelling marathons in seven days, with his partner Nick Wolfe. This vide...
Inside Out - BBC Profile MarkPollockTV 130 views BBC ran a profile of Adventure Athlete and Motivational Speaker Mark Pollock, detailing how he coped with losing his sight suddenly as he prepared to leave college.

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Videos from Mark Pollock, Irish Adventure Athlete and Motivational Speaker, recently became the first blind man to race to the South Pole.

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Mark Pollock gives inspiring and effective motivational presentations based on his life experiences. He is an example of innovation and resilience in action -- how to pre-empt and respond positively to changing circumstances.

For the last decade, Mark Pollock has been racing in the world's harshest environments. He has survived the sub-zero temperatures of Antarctica as he raced to the South Pole over 43 days. He suffered the scorching heat of the Gobi Desert, completing six marathons in one week in "The Race of No Return". He has competed in races on the frozen Arctic Ocean at the North Pole, through the desert lowlands of the Syrian African Rift Valley to the Dead Sea and at altitude in the Himalayas."

Mark has competed against professional explorers like Sir Ranulph Fiennes, Olympic gold medalists and special forces personnel. What's different about Mark's perspective on these challenges is that he competes in a world of total darkness.

For the last decade, Mark Pollock has been blind.

Mark lost his sight when his retinas detached aged just 22, at that stage a promising business and economics student at Trinity College and an international rower. A career in investment banking and life as he knew it quickly faded from view. Once over the shock of blindness, Mark was challenged to redefine his life framed by his new circumstances. He moved back to Dublin and resumed post-graduate study and rowing, winning two Commonwealth Games medals.

He now makes his living as a professional adventure athlete and as a public and motivational speaker.

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