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Pat Falvey's Irish and worldwide Adventures has made him Ireland's leading outdoor man. He has become one of the world's great survivors.

As an entrepreneur and adventurer he has had many successes in his life but has also known failure.

His life has helped him to be one of Ireland's leading storytellers; Pat's tales about mountain climbing and trekking are as exciting as the activities themselves.

He has completed 38 successful adventures having to crossed deserts, jungles, mountains and glaciers.

Now Liam O'Laoire of Farrenferris in Cork City, Ireland, pays a tribute to him in this week's poem.

Pat Falvey, Mountaineer and Antarctic Explorer

A Northside man who made history
Is fearless brave Pat Falvey
To the highest peaks he was no stranger
Relished and loved the aura of danger
Sure the boy from Gurran's like teak and tough

Then he went to a place where no man is sent
The desolate Antarctica the frozen Continent
His training on the Greenland slopes
Must have raised his ultimate hopes
To walk 1100 Kilometers' and reached his goal
Said, like Shackleton and Crean "I'm going to the Pole"

© Liam O'Laoire