Downstream
In 2009 brothers Richard and Mark Walsh similarly started near Lechlade when they decided to swim the n ...
‘We were looking for something bigger and better,’ says Richard, ‘we both grew up in and around Windsor so we ...
Cricklade Bridge, upstream from Lechlade, but ‘there was just enough water to cover the top of our feet, I ...
was dead tree matter but it’s all organic. I didn’t get sick, my brother did afterwards but I kept my mouth ...
David Walliams on the TV, he had four people drying his wetsuit with hairdryers while he ate his lunch, wherea ...
swimming and humming songs to himself: ‘an hour would pass and I couldn’t remember what I’d been thinking ...
The following year it was the turn of American Charlie Wittmack. His plan was to undertake an eleven-month ...
make it a world triathlon.’ Charlie tested things out by climbing Everest in 2003, where he learned about mothe ...
for $2.5 million – in case the journey killed him. ‘I had read a lot about Pugh’s swim, and as I resear ...
three and working as an attorney and college professor, and, while he’d been to London a few times, he’d n ...
about geography around the world and certainly not Britain or the Thames, so I would tell them its history, w ...
history that you all have with the Channel Swimming Association. In the US people don’t really understand explorat ...
adventurer it’s always fun being in the UK because you really understand why it is that people want to go o ...
A triumphant Charlie Wittmack on the escort boat just off the coast of Cap Griz Nez, having swum the Thames and then the Channel ...
2010 world triathlon. Like others before him, Charlie initially wanted to swim through London, but he couldn’t get ...
every few strokes I would get stuck on something and have to stand up and walk again, about twenty per cent ...
see the bottom.’ However, like other long-distance Thames swimmers, he did get sick. ‘I went to hospital t ...
through days and days of medical tests and evaluations at great expense. In the UK I was just told I was ...
‘There was no real euphoric time, it’s just hard, you’re in water up to sixteen hours a day, you just ...
distraction that it makes it hard to complete the challenge you have in front of you.’ Getting started each ...
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