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From the Stands | Record-breaking adventurer Colin O'Brady took his love of the Portland Timbers with him around the world

Colin O'Brady has gone were few Portland Timbers fans have gone before.

In late May, the Portland native completed the Explorers Grand Slam, a challenge to scale the highest points of each of the seven continents—otherwise known as the Seven Summits—in a world record 139 days, besting the previous record by nearly two months.

O'Brady also set a record that will likely never be duplicated: he raised a Portland Timbers scarf on each of the tallest peaks of every continent on Earth.

“When I was taking off for this journey I knew I wanted to have a piece of home with me at all times to represent [Portland], and I thought what better way than the Timbers – a team that I love and embrace and who just won a championship – as a way of representing home and representing such an awesome sports franchise.