Downstream
Beach, and means swimming under the longest pleasure pier in the world, just as in Victorian times the Southen ...
little reckless, swimming alone straight out from the beach rather than in a group along the shore as w ...
now forty-six!’ I ask if they ever come across jellyfish. They all nod; everyone here this afternoon has ...
I’ve dried off and it’s time to go. I ask Iain if he feels the Redcaps are bringing back an old tradit ...
like Iain, it’s time to look to the future, and every time I think I might have gathered enough st ...
25 Andy, Ness and the OSS ...
‘There is absolutely no reason why women can’t swim the length of the Thames’ Ness Knight, adventurer, 2013 The ...
before crossing the Channel, and why Jules Gautier and Agnes Beckwith dived into the river when they wanted ...
Thames. Andy Nation, the first person to swim the length of the non-tidal river, would this time swim f ...
after his 2005 swim: ‘why not carry on to France?’ The only problems the sixty-three- year-old foresees ...
but they said stop at Vauxhall and get in at Barrier Gardens, after the Thames Barrier. I suggested getting ...
In 2005 Andy Nation was the first person to swim the length of the non-tidal Thames. Here he’s pictured at Barkingside Pool duri ...
This time his 147-mile swim is to raise £1,000,000 for Herts Air Ambulance and Hertford MS Therapy Centre, ...
and corporate leaders. Andy’s wife, Lieva, appears with tea and I ask what she thought about his first Thame ...
amount of time it takes up in our lives. The first swim took two years to organise. This one has taken thr ...
originally planned to start his swim to Calais. He went down the garden one afternoon to talk to Lieva, who ...
graft of bone from his hip, as well as a titanium plate and screws. Incredibly, he recovered and, al ...
(which as yet doesn’t have a pool), pointing out the lane rope he will use so he won’t zigzag too much, and ...
was a non-swimming day, as he and his six-member team walked fifteen kilometres to Thames Barrier Gardens, but t ...
Medway. ‘Tomorrow,’ said his Facebook page, in language reminiscent of Victorian newspaper reports, ‘he’ll be atta ...
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