from The Adventure Blog
Philippe Crozon , a 42-year old Frenchman who had his arms and legs amputated more than 15 years ago, swam across the English Channel this past weekend with the aid of special prosthetics. The challenging swim was expected to take as much as 24-hours to complete, but he managed to finish up in just 13 1/2 hours instead. Philippe began his journey on Saturday at the British town of Folkerstone and ended at Wissant on the French side of the Channel. He covered 21 miles of open water in between, and was ...
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from Kev Shields Climbing
The past week has been a real rollercoaster of 'emotions'. It started last Saturday at the Fort William Film Festival and Diffs entertaining lecture "Climbers I've Shot and Some I'd Like To Shoot" which was followed by a showing of Single Handed. I had to do a short QA with Diff afterwards and as usual I was pretty nervous, made even more so by the presense of the legendary Jimmy Marshall and his family. Speaking to Jimmy on the Sunday he told me to stop the dry tool soloing as it was 'dangerous', this ...
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