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 ...

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, ...