Adventurer, businessman, inspirational speaker and motivator, Pat Falvey was born in Cork city. By the time he was in his early twenties he had built up a million-pound property development business only to lose most of it before he was thirty when national recession hit. On entering the world of extreme adventure, he achieved a number of firsts, becoming the first person in the world to complete the Seven Summits twice by climbing Everest from both its north and south sides; the first Irish person to summit an 8,000er without oxygen; the first person to lead an Irish team across Greenland; the first person to lead an Irish team to the South Pole and the first person from the Republic of Ireland to stand on the summit of Mount Everest. Now working in the worlds of business, adventure travel, corporate and personal motivation, Pat lives in County Kerry in the foothills of Ireland's highest mountains. Accidental Rebel is his seventh book.