After a successful rugby career, including four appearances for Wales, Parks is now a world record holder in endurance skiing
As each of us languishes in isolation, one man is about to enter the Guinness Book of World Records for being on his own. When the next edition of every aspirant child’s bible comes out later this year, Richard Parks will be included for skiing more miles (2,299) in Antarctica, solo, unassisted and unsupported, than anyone else.
If geographical isolation is the measure, no one has been lonelier. And yet over the phone in our new reality he can be heard handling the demands of his two-year-old son, Freddie, with aplomb, even as he handles those of this interviewer on the other end of the line.
Written by Michael Aylwin
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/mar/27/richard-parks-ski-antarctica-world-record-adventurers-grand-slam under the title “Richard Parks: from record-breaking solitude in Antarctica to flat isolation”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
