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.

A British endurance athlete has made history by becoming the first person to swim around Iceland's entire coastline. Ross Edgley, 39, began the mammoth journey in May and has covered more than 1,000 ...

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 ...

Ultra-athlete Ross Edgley is no stranger to pushing his body to extremes. He once ran a marathon while pulling a 1-ton car; ran a triathlon while carrying a 100-pound tree; and climbed a 65-foot rope ...

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 ...

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, ...