"Exhausting and emotional" is how one man has described taking part in a 16-hour swim relay across the English Channel. Mark Baber, from Rothwell in Leeds, undertook the challenge along with three ...

QUINCY -- Beth Calabotta's final request to her close friend, Carrie Company, was to keep the swim challenge going in her absence. Knowing she would soon lose her eight-year battle with breast cancer, ...

Swimming the 12 miles across Lake Tahoe, the author was advised to not look ahead but break up the challenge into fathomable chunks. It worked for the swim, and life. By Alexander Carlisle For me, a ...