As of yesterday, endurance athlete Ross Edgley is the only person in the world who can say he has circumnavigated the entire Icelandic coastline – as a swimmer.
The 39-year-old from Grantham previously made headlines when he became the first man to swim around the UK in 2018. Despite a disintegrating “salt tongue”, untold chafing and a wearisome diet of around 10,000 calories per day, he has now added another island nation to his unorthodox yet impressive CV.
