The record for the longest open water swim has been broken. Brit Ross Edgley covered 79 kilometers in one go in Loch Ness, sometimes in the freezing cold.
British extreme athlete Ross Edgley swam through Loch Ness for more than two days. With 52 hours and 39 minutes in which he neither went ashore nor held on to a boat, the 36-year-old broke the record for the longest open water swim in the famous Scottish lake, as the PA news agency reported on Saturday night. He covered an estimated 79 kilometers, despite the sometimes heavy rain and wind and low temperatures of 5 degrees Celsius.
Edgley also wanted to raise awareness of kelp forests in Scotland with his extreme swim. “It was one of the biggest challenges of my career, both physically and mentally,” he said. Edgley went ashore at Fort Augustus on Friday afternoon. The endurance athlete became famous when he swam around Great Britain in 157 days in 2018.
Source: Stern
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