All Mark Pollock Blogs

 No matter what the goal is, dealing in facts is the best chance we have of sticking to the plan andhitting the targets. But the facts are so easily clouded by emotionaldistractions and we get caught in a haze of if, buts and maybes. So, hereare my top 5 ways to stick to the facts: 1. […]

On Tuesday I spoke to a group of bankers in England who have been feeling the pressure of surviving during the ongoing financial turmoil. They were not the fat-cat monsters that bankers have been portrayed as of late, rather they were ordinary people like you and me trying to navigate a course through the crisis. […]

The challenge for last weekend was my first snowboarding experience on real snow. The plan for this challenge had been to get Nick Wolf (my Gobi March team-mate) to talk me safely down a mountain in Switzerland on my walkie talkie system that I bought for this year’s challenges. It seemed like a sensible, achievable […]

My first snowboard trip is happening this weekend and we have 2 lessons left at www.skicentre.ie in dublin. Simone is a regular betty which apparently means a girl who snowboards with her left foot forward. And i ride goofy which means i have my right foot forward. I have to admit i was pleased to […]

January was all about land sailing at the foot of the Andes in Argentina, February is the month of snowboarding and each month for the rest of the year I’m going to try one new extreme sport. The plan is in place for the first 3 months – land sailing, snowboarding and kite wing skiing […]

Mark fell from a second story window in the summer of 2010. During 16 months in hospital, he and his family try to make sense of what has happened in this extract from the award-winning documentary, Unbreakable – The Mark Pollock Story.