Athlete-adventurer Ross Edgley prefaces a lot of his anecdotes with: "And this is really interesting". Usually people follow this phrase with something unbearably banal. But as the first and only ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ross Edgley has completed his latest endurance challenge: Over four months, the ultramarathon swimmer has circumnavigated Iceland.

Towering waves, freezing temperatures and even some inquisitive killer whales. Iceland is doing its best to defeat Ross Edgley. Inspired by "Thor", the British extreme athlete is in the middle of a ...

Ross Edgley has always been a bit of an anomaly. He’s completed entire triathlons carrying tree trunks on his back, run 1,000 miles barefoot (carrying a 50kg pack) and swum non-stop for 510km down the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Athlete-adventurer Ross Edgley plans to swim around another island nation as part of his next challenge: the Great Icelandic Swim ...