In 2012, O'Leary and Mike O'Shea set out on an ongoing series of expeditions that they called the Ice Project; their aim is to cross all of the world's largest ice caps. Some of these expeditions included crossings of the Northern Patagonian Ice Field, the Greenland ice sheet, and Lake Baikal. In 2014, they plan to attempt to ski to the North Pole after their 2012 North Pole trek was cancelled due to a logistics problem; this attempt will be O'Leary's fourth and O'Shea's second. They hope to be the first Irish people to reach the North Pole. A successful trip to the North Pole would also make O'Leary the second woman to climb the Seven Summits and reach both poles.