"Exhausting and emotional" is how one man has described taking part in a 16-hour swim relay across the English Channel. Mark Baber, from Rothwell in Leeds, undertook the challenge along with three ...

Canandaigua, N.Y. (WHAM)— 40 years ago, a group of men and women first swam the length of Canandaigua Lake together. Now, the same group, made up of a coach and some swimmers, will take on the lake ...

As a journalist, I’m a creature of deadline. I signed up to participate in the challenge to swim 15 miles in June for the American Red Cross, and of course I waited until the very last day to finish.

CASCADE LOCKS, Ore. — Early Labor Day morning, Lynn Rasmussen and her group — The Faux Fur-sters — shed their warm, namesake coats to reveal wetsuits. They approached the open door of Columbia Gorge ...

In one version of Irish myth, selkies were seals that turned into beautiful women at night when they went ashore. One night, a man trapped a selkie and made her his wife. They had a son. She loved her ...

British Olympic swimmer Hector Pardoe has reflected on completing a 55km open-water swim, inspired by the Three Peaks challenge, in 22 hours. Wrexham-born swimmer Pardoe - who competed at the Olympics ...

SwimTrek, the world’s leading swimming holiday operator, is excited to announce an exciting swimming challenge as its employees take on a 50 km swim around the island of Guernsey, in partnership with ...