Akshay Nanavati

Akshay Nanavati has overcome drug addiction, PTSD, depression and alcoholism that pushed him to the brink of suicide.

Nanavati served 6 years in the U.S. Marines, including deployment to Iraq as an Infantry non-commissioned officer, where one of his jobs was to walk in front of vehicles to find bombs.

After returning home, Nanavati embraced his demons, and has since built a global business, run many ultramarathons, climbed mountains in the Himalayas, spent 10 days in darkness and isolation, skied 350 miles across the world’s second-largest icecap, and become 1 of only 26 people to ski up a remote glacier in Antarctica.

Despite four biological defects – including a blood disorder that doctors told him would kill him in boot camp – Nanavati is now a sponsored athlete currently training for the first-ever solo, coast to coast crossing of Antarctica. During the 110-day journey he will traverse over 1700 miles.

Combining his life experience with years of research in neuroscience, psychology and spirituality, Nanavati wrote the book “Fearvana," inspired by a quote from the Dalai Lama: “Fearvana inspires us to look beyond our own agonizing experiences and find the positive side of our lives.”

Nanavati is on a mission to help our human family explore the edges and fall in love with both play and suffering in order to create a life of greater meaning, joy and fulfillment.