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.

British adventurer Ross Edgley has made history as the first person to swim around the entire coastline of Iceland, completing a 1,000-mile journey over four grueling months. The 39-year-old from ...

Sept. 9 (UPI) --British endurance swimmer Ross Edgley became the first person to swim 1,000 miles around Iceland. Edgley, 39, endured freezing temperatures and powerful waves during the four-month ...

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 ...

Ross Edgley was 950 miles into his 1,000-mile swim around the coast of Iceland when his body began to fall apart. Trapped off the south-west coast, near Grindavik, pinned between an erupting volcano, ...

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West Iceland, Kingdom of the Bull: Ross battles the elements and extreme isolation. He explores the volcano-strewn Snæfellsjökull National Park and the stunning vistas of the Westfjords. North Iceland ...

Sept. 9 (UPI) --British endurance swimmer Ross Edgley became the first person to swim 1,000 miles around Iceland. Edgley, 39, endured freezing temperatures and powerful waves during the four-month ...