“I feel very honoured to try”: Woman to swim English Channel a century on from first to make the crossing
With a gruelling twenty-one miles of cold, choppy sea, the English Channel has challenged even the best long-distance swimmers. Before 1926, no female swimmer had successfully made the trip, until 19-year-old Gertrude Ederle made history with a record-breaking swim. This summer, Bryony Rowe will mark the centenary of Ederle’s monumental …
