Vincent Colliard, the fastest man at the South Pole – Munich

To understand what makes Vincent Colliard tick, all you have to do is listen to him talk about the honeymoon. With his wife Caroline he asked himself: cocktails on the beach or watching polar bears in the Northwest Passage at minus 35 degrees? You choose the cold. Colliard says: “We’re more winter people.” In addition, he is a damn fast winter person: on January 11th he became the fastest person to reach the South Pole alone and without support. It took him 22 days, six hours and eight minutes to cover 1,140 kilometers – almost two days faster than the old record. 51 kilometers a day, with nothing but ice around him and a 70kg sled behind him, temperatures as low as minus 29 degrees, which felt much colder in the wind. And now he’s standing in the flagship store of his outfitter Norrona at seven o’clock in the evening at 25 degrees and looks enviously at a guest’s flip-flops: “I should have taken them too!”