The Explorers Grand Slam or Adventurers Grand Slam is an adventurers challenge to reach the North Pole

North Pole

The North Pole, also known as the Geographic North Pole or Terrestrial North Pole, is, subject to the caveats explained below, defined as the point in the northern hemisphere where the Earth's axis of rotation meets its surface...

, the South Pole

South Pole

The South Pole, also known as the Geographic South Pole or Terrestrial South Pole, is one of the two points where the Earth's axis of rotation intersects its surface. It is the southernmost point on the surface of the Earth and lies on the opposite side of the Earth from the North Pole...

 and all of the Seven Summits

Seven Summits

The Seven Summits are the highest mountains of each of the seven continents. Summiting all of them is regarded as a mountaineering challenge, first postulated as such and achieved on April 30, 1985 by Richard Bass .-Definition:...

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David Hempleman-Adams

David Hempleman-Adams

David Kim Hempleman-Adams, LVO, OBE, CStJ, DL is a British adventurer.He is the first person in history to reach the Geographic and Magnetic North and South Poles as well as climb the highest peaks in all seven continents; the Adventurers' Grand Slam...

 became the first to complete this challenge in 1998. In April 2005, Park Young Seok

Park Young Seok

Park Young-Seok is a South Korean mountaineer. He is the first person in the world who completed a true Adventure Grand Slam. He has climbed the world's 14 Eight-thousanders, the Seven Summits, and visited both poles...

 completed a "true Adventurers Grand Slam", which additionally includes ascending all 14 peaks above 8,000 meters

Eight-thousander

The eight-thousanders are the fourteen independent mountains on Earth that are more than high above sea level. They are all located in the Himalayan and Karakoram mountain ranges in Asia....

. In 2011, former Wales rugby union international

Wales national rugby union team

The Wales national rugby union team represent Wales in international rugby union tournaments. They compete annually in the Six Nations Championship with England, France, Ireland, Italy and Scotland. Wales have won the Six Nations and its predecessors 24 times outright, second only to England with...

 Richard Parks

Richard Parks

Richard David Parks is a former Wales international rugby union player, representing Newport RFC, Pontypridd RFC, Celtic Warriors, Leeds Tykes, Perpignan and Newport Gwent Dragons at club and regional level. In May 2009 he was forced to retire from rugby due to a shoulder injury...

 became the first person ever to complete the Grand Slam within a single calendar year, doing so within seven months.

Some 20 people have completed the Explorers Grand Slam including:
Maxime Chaya

Maxime Chaya

Maxime Edgard Chaya is a sportsman, mountaineer and explorer from Lebanon. On May 15, 2006, he was the first Lebanese to climb Mount Everest, completing the Seven Summits challenge...

 Khoo Swee Chiow

Khoo Swee Chiow

Khoo Swee Chiow is a Singaporean adventurer, author and motivational speaker. Khoo is the 1st South East Asian and the 4th person in the world to complete The Explorers Grand Slam, that is, the South Pole, the North Pole and the Seven Summits....

 Will Cross

Will Cross

William H. Cross is an American mountain climber.He has ascended the highest peaks on all seven continents and walked to both the North and South Poles. He has also led expeditions to 15 unmapped, unexplored mountains in Greenland and also in Patagonia, Mountains of the Moon, the Sahara Desert, and...

 Lei Wang

Wang Lei (mountaineer)

Wang Lei Wang Lei Wang Lei (Chinese: 王雷） is the first Chinese woman and the first Asian American who have climbed the Seven Summits and skied to both the North Pole and South Pole, the so called Explorers Grand Slam....

 Jo Gambi Rob Gambi David Hempleman-Adams

David Hempleman-Adams

David Kim Hempleman-Adams, LVO, OBE, CStJ, DL is a British adventurer.He is the first person in history to reach the Geographic and Magnetic North and South Poles as well as climb the highest peaks in all seven continents; the Adventurers' Grand Slam...

 Heo Young-Ho

Heo Young-ho

-Career record:*2006: 58 wins, 25 losses*2007: 64 wins, 24 losses*2008: 33 wins, 18 losses*2009: 35 wins, 18 losses*2010: 66 wins, 20 losses-Titles and runners-up:-Korean Baduk League:-External Links:**...

 Fyodor Konyukhov

Fyodor Konyukhov

Fyodor Filippovich Konyukhov is a Russian survivalist, traveller and yacht captain. Eventually turned East Orthodox priest.- Military service :...

 Alison Levine

Alison Levine

Alison Levine is an American mountain climber, sportswoman, explorer, and entrepreneur. She has ascended the highest peaks on every continent and also skied to both the North and South Poles. In 2010 at age 44, she completed the Adventure Grand Slam by reaching the summit of Mt...

 Haraldur Olafsson Erling Kagge

Erling Kagge

Erling Kagge is a Norwegian explorer/adventurer, lawyer, art collector and publisher.-Biography:Kagge is among Norway's most acclaimed polar explorers and one of the greatest adventurers of our time. He is the first person to accomplish the "three pole challenge" of reaching the North Pole, the...

 Park Young Seok

Park Young Seok

Park Young-Seok is a South Korean mountaineer. He is the first person in the world who completed a true Adventure Grand Slam. He has climbed the world's 14 Eight-thousanders, the Seven Summits, and visited both poles...

 Randall Peeters Cecilie Skog

Cecilie Skog

Cecilie Skog is a Norwegian adventurer from Ålesund. She studied and worked as a nurse, but since summiting Mount Everest in 2004, she has worked as a professional adventurer, guide and lecturer.In August 2008 she climbed K2...

 Jin Feibao

Jin Feibao

Jin Feibao is a Chinese mountain climber. He has been described as "arguably modern China's greatest adventurer." A native from Kunming, Feibao has completed the Explorers Grand Slam, summiting the highest mountain in every continent and reaching both the North and South Poles in a record 18...

 Stuart Smith

Stuart Smith

Stuart Smith may refer to:*Stuart Lyon Smith , politician, psychiatrist, academic and public servant in Ontario, Canada*Stuart Saunders Smith , American composer and percussionist*Stuart Tyson Smith, American Egyptologist...

 Bernard Voyer

Bernard Voyer

Bernard Voyer, is a French Canadian explorer and mountaineer.Born in Rimouski, Quebec, he has skied across Ellesmere Island; travelled to the North Pole in 1994 and South Pole in 1996; climbed Mount Everest in 1999 and Mount Fuji in 2004.In 1997, he was made a Knight of the National Order of...

 Suzanne K Nance Richard Parks

Richard Parks

Richard David Parks is a former Wales international rugby union player, representing Newport RFC, Pontypridd RFC, Celtic Warriors, Leeds Tykes, Perpignan and Newport Gwent Dragons at club and regional level. In May 2009 he was forced to retire from rugby due to a shoulder injury...