1. Ross Edgley was born on 13 October 1985 and is a British athlete, ultra-marathon sea swimmer and author.
19 Facts About Ross Edgley
1. 2.
Globally recognised for undertaking athletic adventures in the most hostile conditions for conservation charities, Edgley has completed swims with white sharks in Australia, tiger sharks in the Bahamas and bears in the Yukon River.
3.
Ross Edgley was born into a sporting family in Grantham, Lincolnshire.
4.
Ross Edgley's father was a tennis coach and his mother was a sprinter.
5.
Ross Edgley later gained a sports scholarship to study at Loughborough University's School of Sport and Exercise Science, where he continued to train at the British Swimming National Centre.
6.
Between June and November 2018, Ross Edgley completed a 157-day 1,792 miles swim around Britain.
7.
Ross Edgley never celebrated the achievement and instead joked it was only a "warm up" because he still had 1,442 miles to swim before he completed his much larger mission and arrived back in Margate, Kent.
8.
Ross Edgley accidentally became the fastest person to swim the 900 miles from Land's End to John o' Groats in 62 days.
9.
Ross Edgley then became the first person to swim the length of the Moray Firth, before heading to the English border at Berwick-upon-Tweed where he joked, "It was all downhill from here".
10.
On 23 September 2022, Ross Edgley undertook a charity swim in Loch Ness, Scotland.
11.
The route and precise distance are unknown, but Ross Edgley remains the only person to survive swimming in a wetsuit in the cold waters of Loch Ness for more than 52 hours.
12.
On 13 July 2023, Ross Edgley was scheduled to attempt another ultra-marathon charity swim in Lake Trasimeno, Italy.
13.
Between 16 and 18 June 2024, Ross Edgley set a new official Guinness World Record for his 510km non-stop swim down the Yukon River in Canada.
14.
Swimming between Whitehorse and Dawson City, Ross Edgley was not permitted to stop, sleep or touch the boat as per the rules set by WOWSA.
15.
On 22 January 2016, Ross Edgley began a marathon around the Silverstone circuit in Northamptonshire, pulling a 1,400 kilograms car.
16.
Ross Edgley completed the marathon endeavor to raise money for the Teenage Cancer Trust, Children With Cancer, Sports Aid and United Through Sport.
17.
Ross Edgley has written four books: The World's Fittest Book, The Art of Resilience: Strategies for an Unbreakable Mind and Body, Blueprint: Build a bulletproof body for extreme adventure in 365 days and The World's Fittest Cookbook.
18.
In 2009, Ross Edgley took part in a BBC reality television series where he travelled the world taking on challenges with deadly animals and in hostile locations around the world.
19.
Over 2 years Ross Edgley completely changed his diet and training in an effort to try and polaris jump out the water like a white shark, swim as fast as a mako shark, eat as much as a tiger shark and endure the same G-force as a hammerhead when hunting.