Chris Fagan

“Antarctica hadn’t changed who I was, it revealed who I was. Shattered open, I peered into my soul and felt connected to everything. My bold, strong side would no longer block the light of my soft, vulnerable side—because vulnerability is never a weakness, it is simply a truth of being completely human. And just like our universe is expanding, so are we humans. The further I adventured into the outer world, the more my inner world expanded. Adventuring into the unknown had taught me that I could grow and learn and love to infinity.”
― Chris Fagan, The Expedition: Two Parents Risk Life and Family in an Extraordinary Quest to the South Pole

“As the tent fell into absolute silence, my body, like the stillness of cold, lay suspended in the moment. I looked up at the tent wall and reread the quote that said “Silence is also conversation.” I had read that quote countless times, but that night, I realized that silence wasn’t a wedge between us, it was a bridge. It wasn’t to be filled—it was to be felt. I closed my eyes. I had found home in silence.”
― Chris Fagan, The Expedition: Two Parents Risk Life and Family in an Extraordinary Quest to the South Pole