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Pat Falvey
 Adventurer,
Explorer, Motivational speaker, Team trainer, Environmentalist, Author, Photographer
and f
ilm producer.
Pat Falvey is Ireland's leading team trainer and motivational
speaker as well as being a world-renowned adventurer and
explorer. His achievements to date are an inspiration to
all.
Pat's extraordinary life has had more than its fair share
of triumphs and disasters as a businessman and adventurer.
His high points are many, but there were low points also.
Pat left school at 15 to become a millionaire, his trade then being a bricklayer. By
the age of 21 he had achieved his objective and turning over in the region
of €70 million in today’s value as a property
developer as well as being involved in other businesses.
When Pat lost his focus, he lost everything and went broke at the age of 29.
With the lowering of self-esteem, his confidence shattered
and the pressures of a failed business he was forced to
refocus to save his sanity, his business and his family.
With a new set of goals to achieve, Pat re-focused his
energy. He used these new goals to pull himself from the
depths of depression. To rebuild his business, his self-esteem
and his confidence to go on to achieve what others said
was impossible.
A new beginning
 At the age of 29 Pat took up hill-walking, and on his second day on the hill proffessed he was going to climb Mount Everest.
His new goal
became a turning point that sowed the seeds for a life
of adventure. Just six years later at the age of 35 Pat
had stood on the highest point on our planet, Mount Everest
on the 27 May 1995.
As well as climbing Everest he rebuilt his business, set
up a bank and then retired from the corporate world at
the age of 40 to follow his current career as a team trainer,
adventurer , explorer and motivational speaker.
Through sheer determination, positive attitude, self-belief
and newfound passion for life, Pat conquered the fear of
failure and achieved his dreams.
Pat the Adventurer. (only Person in the World, acheivements)
 Pat has over 62 high adventurers completed around the world
to his credit. Most of the expeditions to his credit he has been team leader.
Seven Summits: Everest twice.
He is the only person in the world to have completed the Seven Summits challenge twice, including climbing Mount Everest from both Nepal and Tibet.
The South Pole
Pat has also trained and lead the first Irish team to complete the 1140km trek to the South Pole, in honour of Ernest Shackleton and Ireland's unsung polar hero's, across the coldest, loniest, most barren, desolate and dangerous landscape on earth to reach the South Pole on the 8th Jan 2008.
Greenland.
As walking/skiing to the South Pole he also holds the record of having lead the 1st Irish team across the Greenland Ice Cap from East to west.
- He also lead the 1st Irish team to have completed an ogygen-less ascent on an 8000 meter peak in 1998, into an area know to climbers as Death Zone. On the sixth highest mountain in the world, Cho-Oyu
Pat's studies of man.
On his travels Pat has lived with over 20 different tribes
of people worldwide. From western man just like you and
I to nomadic tribes in Africa, to the stone age tribes
in the jungles of west Papua New Guinea. He has taken an
interest in their customs, traditions and cultures as well
as studied their religions and belief systems.
 Pat
has learnt from his experiences as a businessman, adventurer
and explorer what is that has driven man since the evolution
of our planet, to set out to achieve, challenge and succeed.
Whether it is to become a first, plant a flag, conquer
a peak, win a match or to succeed
in no matter what it is that we set out to do.
Pat believes that we all have an Everest and that we all
want to be part of a winning team. Pat has developed a
process that has enabled him to make his life one to be
enjoyed. Through his training programs, he has developed
a formula to encourage others to live life to their full
potential.
At home
Pat lives at his Mountain Lodge, a holistic and mountaineering
training centre at the foot of the MaGillycuddy Reeks,
home to Ireland's highest mountain. The Lodge is situated
overlooking the Lakes of Killarney and offers a peace and
tranquillity rarely found these days.
Pat's offices at the Mountain Lodge overlooks Mount Brandon,
the ideal surrounding for researching his next expedition
or dreaming up the content of the next lecture or course.
"Life
begins when you're ready to live it" Pat Falvey
See the Lectures page for
more information.
 
On top of the world - a dream realised:
27th May, 1995 and
18th
May, 2004
"I was so proud to be an Irishman to stand on
top of the world. For a short time in the history of our
planet I
had the privilege, not once but twice, to stand on that
patch of ground five and a half miles high in the sky at
which jet liners cruise. A place that was pushed from the
bottom of our seas to the top of the world. The power,
the energy and the feeling was amazing"
Pat's Major adventure milestone
Everest Tibet 1995
Completion 7 summits 1st time 1996
Everest Nepal 2004,
Completion of 7 Summits 2nd time 2006
Traverse South Georgia, 2006
Greenland traverse Crossing 2007
South Pole January 2008
The future
 Never one to rest on laurels and always having goals,
Pat has just completeted his current book " A journry to Adventure. the stories I never thought I tell" and is presently working on two new books. He has also produced a documentary for RTE
on climbing Mt. Everest with Kevin Hughes and has just completed, a four part mini TV series on Beyond
Endurance for RTE with Panache Productions. Ordinary people doing an extraordinary expedition to Antarctic.
He is presently working on a new TV program on there successful expedition to the South Pole in honour of Irish Polar explorers. Shackleton, Crean, Forde, Keohane and the McCarthy Brothers.
He has three major expeditions in the Planning.
- November 2008: Heading South to Antarctic to complete a research project on Global warming and climate change. South Georgia, Elephant Island and Antarctic
- April 2009 Greenland and North Pole a follow on from the Beyond Endurance expedition:
- He also plans a jeep journey around the world.
A brief of some of Pat's work in progress:
Books in progress:
A Journey to Adventurer: The stories I never thought I'd live to tell.
Due to be Published December 2007. Finished and in Print
The Psychology of Success, A book that shows the formula
for success in people lives. "We all have an Everest
no matter who we are and we all have the ability to make
it a reality". To be completed in November 2008.
 A follow up to the best selling Freddy T. Bear Dairy that
was written by Pat Falvey and Clare O'Leary. Frederick
T. Bear, the adventure bear, is an innovative approach
to teaching children (and adults) the geography of the
world. Through the adventures and discoveries of the bear,
as relayed in his journal, e-mails, photographs and video
coverage, children learn about the cultures and traditions
of the countries which he visits. Second edition due for
publication in 2008/2009.
The Three Poles Expedition. A follow on to his book 'Reach
for the Sky'. An adventurous, motivational story about
following a dream and making it a reality. Ordinary people
trying to achieve extraordinary feats. Tying in expeditions
to the jungles of the world in search of the stone age
tribes, Operation Everest Expeditions 2003 and 2004, Beyond
Endurance - across the Antarctic and Operation North Pole.
Publication targeted date - 2009
TV Series, Beyond Endurance
A series about ordinary
people setting themselves a target that most would say
was impossible. The program follows their journey as they
prepare, train, and endure some of the harshest conditions
know to man.
"Dream and dream big,
but remember that it's in the following of the dream where the success lies" Tim
Falvey-Pat's father
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