Ross Edgley is famous for completing the World’s Longest Staged Sea Swim in 2018. He became the first person in history to swim 1,780 miles (2,860 km) around Great Britain in 157 days.
The extreme adventurer, ultra-marathon sea swimmer and author, Edgley holds multiple world records.
Voted Performance of the Year by the World Open Water Swimming Association, he documented his training, nutrition, theories and strategies and published them in his books titled The World’s Fittest Book (2018), The Art of Resilience (2020), and Blueprint: Build a Bulletproof Body for Extreme Adventure in 365 Days (2021), all of which became No.1 Sunday Times Bestsellers and have been translated into several other languages.
In 2019, Ross Edgley received an honorary doctorate from Bishop Grosseteste University (BGU) in Lincoln, for his research into mental and physical resilience and continues to coach and lecture around the world as a leading expert in the science and psychology of adventure.