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00:22That's the Valkyries, the Norse god Odin's female warriors, dancing in the skies.
00:32And that's their shield shimmering as they take the souls of fallen warriors to Odin, to Valhalla, to eternal life.
00:43According to ancient folklore, they're probably deciding if I live or die on this swim.
00:50I really hope that's not me.
00:53I need to finish my swim around Iceland and get home for the birth of our first child.
01:17I'm well aware I look like the love child of a yeti and a werewolf.
01:22I almost think this facial hair and this kind of matted look here, it's almost symbolic of the spirit of
01:31the great Icelandic swim.
01:33It's not poetic and it's not pretty, but it works and we don't give up.
01:39So far, I've swum Iceland's west and north coast. The kingdoms of the bull and the eagle are done.
01:48But I'm told the worst is yet to come.
01:52Putting on your urine soaked wetsuit that's cold, swimming past frozen fjords, trying to avoid jellyfish.
02:06Any sensible person would have called it by now, but I'll go down swinging if I have to.
02:24I'm not missing the baby's arrival and I'm not not swimming around Iceland.
02:47As we finally enter the land of the dragon, the clock's ticking. The swim is not going to plan.
02:55We're hoping on this eastern coast, fingers crossed, that we can get Ross on much more consistent tides and currents
03:00and bring us closer to the finish.
03:04At this point, we are so far behind schedule and we need a miracle.
03:09Thankfully, it arrives in the form of the East Icelandic current. This just goes pumping down the east coast.
03:16After two months, it just felt like the Nordic gods, dragons were finally helping us.
03:27As we steadily head south, we pick up speeds that we've never achieved before.
03:32In a single day, we even managed 28 miles. That's 45 kilometres.
03:38After the west coast and the north coast, it just felt like Iceland went,
03:42Oh, go on, you little scamp. Here's a little bit of assistance.
03:59There's lots of excitement this morning.
04:01Ross is in the water and we're almost hitting the halfway mark around Iceland.
04:07Is it just 200 kilometres?
04:09Yeah.
04:10Hello, Ross.
04:11Hello, Ross.
04:12Hello, Ross.
04:13Here you go, buddy.
04:14200 metres.
04:15Yeah.
04:15The whole team is out here to celebrate this moment.
04:20Three, two, one!
04:23Yeah!
04:28Woo!
04:30Woo!
04:30That's it!
04:35Woo!
04:36Good job, Ross.
04:37Come on, Ross.
04:38That's it.
04:39I'm not crying. I've got a jellyfish stick.
04:43Don't blame the jellyfish.
04:44Woo!
04:45Woo!
04:46Very good one.
04:48Pass off flat.
04:50It's massive, psychologically, to reach this halfway point.
04:53Yay!
04:54The psychological element is huge to this.
04:56It's a huge part of the mental game, so...
04:58I am trying to smile.
05:00It's a really important moment.
05:04Yeah.
05:05There's so many times that we probably didn't think we'd get halfway, so just...
05:11We started to believe that maybe, just maybe, it could be possible.
05:20Halfway, I'm proud of you.
05:21Oh.
05:22Shoulders up here.
05:23Go, go.
05:25Oh, yeah.
05:26Don't be fine.
05:29I thought a lot about Hester and my family on that day.
05:34I'm just very, very aware that fatherhood is kind of just around the corner.
05:41So, yes, he's been sending me loads of scans.
05:43He's tracking in the top percentile of size.
05:48And I was like, of course, he's going to come out just like a nugget.
05:52Just like that.
05:53That's a good one.
05:55That's a good one.
05:55He's doing set-ups there, isn't he?
05:57So, I can't wait to get back.
05:58I'm just going to be reading him sagas, like Icelandic Viking sagas and stuff like that.
06:01So, then he would come out and be like,
06:03You're the strange man who was telling me about the sagas.
06:08But just when it felt like things were on the up, as ever with Iceland, the dragon has other plans.
06:16News of a dangerous new low building in the Norwegian sea forces us to head for Sebesfjorda.
06:23It's one of the few safe ports on the east coast.
06:26We're going to go and hide from him for the next 36 hours.
06:36My dad was a guiding north star when he was here.
06:41And now he's no longer here.
06:43As I swim around Iceland, he still remains like a guiding north star.
06:48And that just feels quite nice.
06:56I can talk about my dad now without getting choked up.
07:00It's taken a few years.
07:03We lost him a few years ago now to cancer.
07:06I was swimming around Great Britain when I got a phone call.
07:10It was my older brother and my mum.
07:12And they were like,
07:12It's not good news.
07:14Dad has stage 4 cancer.
07:18There's nothing you can do.
07:19We just needed to let you know.
07:21And my initial thought was,
07:23I'm just cancelling the swim.
07:24I was like, I'm just going to go home.
07:25And I'm just going to go and be with dad.
07:28And he rung me and he just said,
07:30You can come home.
07:32You can come and give me a hug.
07:33But it has to be via Margate.
07:35You have to finish what you started.
07:39And I then just swam down the entire east coast,
07:44just gunning it.
07:47And I said I could talk without getting choked up.
07:51I'm almost there.
07:54But he was severely ill as well in Margate.
07:58And he was in a wheelchair.
08:00And the doctors all said to him,
08:02they were like,
08:03Look, Richard, you shouldn't be around groups of people.
08:06You shouldn't go to Margate.
08:09And my dad just stoically looked them all in the eye
08:11and just said,
08:13Thank you so much.
08:14I appreciate your advice.
08:15But I'll be on the beach in Margate
08:18when my son swims around Great Britain.
08:23So, yeah, it was...
08:26And that's the biggest lesson that my dad taught me.
08:28You do what you say you're going to do.
08:31That's what really drives me.
08:39So, I thought that Iceland could get any colder.
08:44I was wrong.
08:50Iceland continues to throw up surprises.
08:52We're heading south,
08:53but you're just getting all of this water coming off the glaciers,
08:56and there's a massive, hench glacier as well on the south coast
09:00that I don't even want to think about right now.
09:04So, we're going to leave that little bear for you.
09:29So, we're going to leave that little bear for you.
09:32Iceland's largest ice cap,
09:34which covers a huge 8% of Iceland's land area.
09:40It's a breathtaking sight.
09:48I love this fact.
09:49A glacier is a massive ice that can move on its own accord,
09:53and it's formed by trillions upon trillions of compressed snowflakes.
10:00And these are glacial tongues, like fingers snaking down into the sea.
10:10The joyful news is that when these bad boys break off,
10:13they send icebergs into the ocean.
10:15That is going to be brutal to swim in.
10:21So, not only do I have my arch nemesis, the cold to deal with,
10:24it's now late July, which means nights are coming back.
10:28And that means a whole new level of danger.
10:31Risk of getting lost, risk of getting run over by the boat.
10:43We've got night swims going again.
10:45First time in a while, the sun's actually set, and it's dark outside.
10:51His only reference point in the dark is the actual boat.
10:55Yeah, definitely presents its challenges.
10:56For the actual helm, it's difficult, obviously, for visibility and safety.
11:00And those of us that are supervising the swim,
11:02because, obviously, seeing Ross at all times is paramount.
11:08So, we have to put, obviously, a lighting system on Ross,
11:11keeping the right distance to the boat and keep him safe.
11:14I've done many night swims before, but night swims in Iceland,
11:17you do not want to get lost out here.
11:23The ferry lights on the side of the boat are like my compass guiding me south.
11:28And Gar has strapped an emergency beacon to my back,
11:31which can transmit my exact position to a satellite,
11:34if the worst happens and we get separated.
11:39Ross is taking the feed now there at the moment.
11:41He does the feed about every 20 minutes or so,
11:42so he's having an electrolyte drink to rehydrate and put some vital salts back in the system,
11:48to stop from cramping.
11:50Hey, you've done 3.5K in 40 minutes, so...
11:54Oh!
11:55Haven't seen that in a while.
11:57Let's hope that lasts.
11:59The silent assassin of this entire swim is sleep deprivation.
12:04You swim for six hours, get out for six hours to rest, eat and sleep,
12:09but you don't get that deep rejuvenating sleep.
12:13And ultimately, you never fully recover.
12:23I am haggard.
12:26I'm so haggard.
12:29Erm...
12:30Yeah.
12:31Every stroke hurts now, I'm not going to lie.
12:34My shoulders are like, what are you doing?
12:36Why are you still swimming?
12:38It's been months.
12:39Well, Ross obviously is under pressure now to get as many kilometres as he can get done per day.
12:44Because, yeah, it's a mammoth task swimming 1,600 kilometres.
12:48That's different than your average Sunday afternoon swimmer.
12:51It's utterly impossible for someone to appreciate what Ross is actually going through here.
12:56The cold, the currents, the uncharted nature of it, the lack of sleep, living on a boat,
13:01a lack of space, lack of privacy.
13:03So, it's relentless and the lack of recovery is absolutely massive in this.
13:07It's an incredible endeavour.
13:10He's a pretty extraordinary human being.
13:16So, the east coast has been a massive high for Ross and the team.
13:21We've absolutely flown down it.
13:26He's, erm...
13:27He's had a lot of help by the tide.
13:29We're now almost at Hoffen, which is the sort of mark at the end of the east.
13:33And looking at the south coast, it could be a different story.
13:45Then, like Groundhog Day, yet another storm starts to build deep in the Atlantic.
13:51It sends strong, summery winds directly into the direction we are trying to swim into.
13:58And we're forced to ride it out in the historic town of Hoffen.
14:02Famous for its spectacular views of the Vatnajökull Hench Glacier.
14:07It's our gateway to the south coast and the land of the giant.
14:13So, officially finishing the east coast was an amazing moment.
14:17I was told that dragons love fast flowing water.
14:19Turns out they really do.
14:22We complete over 165 miles of the east coast in record time.
14:29So, we're back on land once again.
14:31Trying to make the most of our time and find out more about Iceland's extreme landscapes.
14:42This feels like we're walking through kind of like Lord of the Rings.
14:45Yes, it's a very dramatic landscape.
14:48It really bears the mark of tremendous natural forces.
14:54It really does, doesn't it?
14:58I've never seen anything like it.
15:00It used to be much, much, much, much higher, much more spectacular.
15:06The ice cap from where Hoffenberg originates is the biggest glacier outside of the polar regions.
15:15It's estimated that all of this ice will be gone, will be melted away in 150 to 200 years.
15:25That's like three generations of human beings.
15:29And the magnitude of the change, the speed of the change, it's mind-boggling.
15:34If you think back about 130 years, then the glacier would have been here, where we're standing now.
15:44And it would have reached about two, three hundred meters above our heads.
15:49The melting has been incredibly pronounced and quick.
15:54This is a very immediate evidence of changes that are taking place on planet Earth because of climate change.
16:05And if that isn't bad enough news, there's more.
16:09The story tells me about nine of the biggest volcanic areas in Iceland lie under this huge ice cap.
16:16The weight of the glacier is holding them down.
16:20What happens when all the ice melts is the worry.
16:23The place could be unlivable if all of these volcanoes that are currently under the ice, if they are exposed,
16:34then they're able to erupt for decades or even centuries.
16:37The important thing is that we each try to do our part.
16:42As individuals, there's just too much a snake.
16:47The story's words are still ringing in my ears.
16:50It's got me wondering just what sort of a world I'm going to be leaving to my unborn son.
17:04But right now, I've got a job to do and a country to swim around.
17:09And finally, we're back on the move again as we enter the land of the giant.
17:16But the warnings of what lies ahead sound brutal.
17:20The south coast between Hoffen and the southeast is inhospitable, shallow and dangerous.
17:28Tidal streams are strong and irregular.
17:31During the 17th century, much of this coastline was farmed
17:35until cataclysmic eruptions made life impossible.
17:39And as lava poured into the sea, it's created exceptionally treacherous, low-lying reefs.
17:46The navigator is advised to give it a wide berth.
17:50Well, we're not going to give it a wide berth, guys, because we've got a mission to get Ross around
17:55Iceland.
17:56And if that's not enough, on a more immediate challenge,
18:01ice is breaking off from the glacier and heading out into the sea.
18:08It's just kind of like razor blades to the faces. It's that bad?
18:15The team do everything they can to keep me warm.
18:18I go completely mute. I actually can't talk. My face is frozen.
18:25So he's having a difficult afternoon now.
18:28And the kilometres are coming slowly and he's having to work very hard for them.
18:31On the east coast, we'll get hit four to five kilometres per hour.
18:34Down here in the south, we're struggling to get three kilometres per hour.
18:38It's a different world down here.
18:39And we have these Atlantic swells rolling in and hitting the southern coast of Iceland.
18:44There's also very few ports down here, so it presents, yeah, many new challenges.
18:50It goes from bad to worse.
18:53And suddenly, the whole swim is in jeopardy.
18:58Storm after storm from the south hits us.
19:03There's conditions that I'm okay to swim in.
19:06I basically just get beaten up and thrown around, but it's okay.
19:09Whereas the boat, it's getting back on the boat that's the issue.
19:18I'm swimming in these huge swells.
19:20I'm exhausted, could have been swimming for 12 hours.
19:24Hypothermia seeping into your suit.
19:34The ladder's crashing up and down, so I can't actually get onto the boat.
19:38This is a bad place to be.
19:54The conditions are so bad, we decide it's too dangerous to continue south.
20:02it forces us into a radical change of plan for both the boat and my safety we decide to change
20:09the direction of the swim and do the last 260 miles of the south coast in reverse then we can
20:16join up the dots yes it's as complicated as it sounds as we wait for the latest bad weather to
20:28ease we check out the south coast's beaches it's sobering and formidable
20:37reynarsfjord is iceland's most dangerous beach legend has it these columns are two giants which
20:44were turned to stone as they try to drag a three-masted ship to shore as the sun rose
20:51and it's said you can still hear the giants moans as they long for their homes in the mountains
21:01and the sea is so dangerous
21:01what's so deadly here is sneaker waves which come out of nowhere
21:09i've never been to a beach like this one there's a permanent weather warning system that goes from
21:14green amber to red what's craziest with these waves crashing out this is apparently medium this is
21:20amber and the reason this beach is so dangerous is there's a steep drop-off very close to the shore
21:28it means huge rogue waves can form with very little notice that's a little bit scary
21:37there are really clear warnings but there's a lot of visitors still dangerously close to the sea
21:47and on a really really somber and sad note we were actually there on the beach just a few hours
21:52before somebody lost their lives it was a family who was swept out to sea and it was it was
21:57a young
21:58girl who drowned it's utterly tragic i think for me that just really brought home how you cannot take
22:06the south coast lightly as the winds finally ease our new plan starts to unfold we sail west towards
22:23grindovic ready to swim the land of the giant in reverse as we arrive it's clear that this is no
22:33ordinary town grindovic is in an area of iceland that's seen intense volcanic activity over the
22:40last few years this is one of the weirdest places i've been in iceland and that's saying something
22:55you just completely quiet you could hear a pin drop
23:04it's where two tectonic plates meet you just get these volcanic eruptions constantly happening over the
23:11last few years and in fact the most recent one happened about a kilometer that way only a week ago
23:19it's so strange to be standing in the middle of what looks like a really busy housing estate nothing
23:29if you live in iceland you you have to respect nature
23:33and if a volcano is going to take out your house you don't try to stop it you just move
23:43we start to swim west to east retracing our steps back along the south coast in reverse
23:51and i'm left alone with my thoughts once again
23:58anything that happens on land it might be a conversation uh with the crew it might be a phone
24:04call back home to hester uh anything that happens i will then swim for hours in this world of of
24:11sensory deprivation so i can't speak to anyone you know i can't really hear anything so i'm just left
24:15alone with my own thoughts and sometimes that's a good thing it could be a joke on on the you
24:20know
24:20amongst the crew or you know you talk about uh your favorite song and that just repeats in your head
24:25so
24:25can be a good thing uh but actually a few days ago it was my dad's birthday and
24:37i spoke about this before it sounds right and anyone who's lost someone will know
24:42whether it's spiritual psychological whatever you can actually hear their voice so clearly in your head
24:47and my dad he was he was so stoic and he didn't speak a lot but when he did
24:55you always listened and i could just hear his voice and it was just um
25:01i almost got over it and uh yeah
25:06and and he just said you know finish finish this with now and get home
25:32so we've been stuck out now for five days without going to port and that means the boat is rocking
25:38from side to side smashing banging a lot of noise wind and it's very very difficult if not
25:43impossible to sleep so that really compromises ross's recovery and not just physically but mentally
25:48and emotionally
25:51the south coast here we are and as predicted tides and currents they've just they've completely flipped on us
26:04all the data said that the tide had turned and it was going to be an amazing swim
26:18i started swimming for 200 meters i turned to the team and i said guys this doesn't feel right
26:23and in the time it took me to finish my bottle of water and to hand it back i'd gone
26:27back 50 meters
26:29turns out the data was wrong it i i cannot describe what that does to your psychology
26:37my bottom lip is out i am swear it's just i'm in struggle town it's bad and there's another worry
26:47rather than things getting easier things go from bad to worse my wetsuit's getting a little bit looser
26:54so i can tell i'm losing weight as well i started this i think i was like
26:58a hundred and maybe three kilograms i think i'm about like 96 which isn't good
27:08i'm eating like a horse and i'm still losing weight something isn't quite right
27:17basically it's like your body saying mate look we can't keep doing this we've had enough
27:23but maybe unwisely i choose to ignore it and keep on going
27:30but sometimes when you are just feeling really low the most amazing and unexpected things happen
27:38we're literally in the middle of nowhere and the team have a surprise
27:53what's going on what's going on you said you'll see just enjoy there's some friends coming to visit
28:03some friends coming to say hello
28:23you know just thinking about that moment was amazing the very fact that the royal navy came to find
28:29us and cheers us on it was something i'll never forget it's just those moments of human kindness that helped
28:37so much
28:52it's been a bit emotional
28:54it's like they're all royal navy
28:57oh i'm wishing you luck can they drop something in the water for you
29:05this dropped out of the sky um
29:12get in
29:14oh no way this is the greatest bucket ever
29:19it's just full of chocolate absolute legends
29:25i got weirdly a bit emotional just seeing the flag like
29:29oh that's that's that's that's really cool
29:36after days at sea we head into the remote islands of vesmanai six miles off the mainland for a badly
29:43needed restock of food and fuel
29:52but with the end of the summer fast approaching and the baby due
29:56in four weeks i'm just not making good enough progress we're rapidly running out of time
30:06oh you purposely made that work
30:12easy salem completed it
30:15but you know here investment eye there are worse places to hang out
30:20in the world
30:21i love this place just because it is home to the largest colony of puffins in the world and who
30:27doesn't love puffins
30:35but actually like me some of the puffins here in south iceland are not doing that well
30:41i'm hearing that seabirds on iceland's atlantic coast are having to travel further to find food for their young this
30:47year
30:48and that seems to be down to the seas warming and less fish in the ocean
30:55it means that for some of the puffins young like me they're not as fat as they should be for
31:01going it alone in the atlantic
31:04the warning signs our world is changing fast are everywhere
31:10and i'm changing fast too
31:13so basically your legs account for 10 percent of overall propulsion on long distance swims
31:17sometimes even less so i barely kick my legs at all and i think um now just look in my
31:23body
31:24it's just so weird i've just become this like sea dwelling mammal you know we've just kind of
31:30semi good triceps and arms but severely just atrophied legs that have just kind of completely shrunk
31:38um but that's kind of it form follows function it doesn't look like much but this is honestly
31:44when you've been swimming for so long and you are just frozen and you can't feel your fingers and your
31:49face this is a sanctuary it's so nice it's organized chaos i know where everything is so i'm constantly
31:57eating them in a state of perpetual carb loading i'm trying to make up 10 000 calories today that
32:04you'll notice i've got two water bottles they're marked that is for drinking um this one is for
32:10going to the toilet um don't get them mixed up don't do it um that's why i put tape on
32:18one because i mixed
32:18them off it was it was a bad it was a bad morning with the boat loaded up with more
32:28pasta and peanut butter
32:30we head back out to sea to chip away at those last elusive miles of the south coast
32:40in the past my body's broken before my mind like so i'll push myself into hypothermia cellulitis
32:46rhabdo all sorts of things will put me in hospital and that's not a good thing it's an absolute
32:54personality defect iceland it will break something it will be your will or your body and i just know from
33:01past experience i'm stupid and stubborn enough to swim so the mind won't break but i'm also aware
33:10that i'm not bulletproof and there's no doubt the swim is taking its toll on my body over the last
33:17three
33:17months salt water has destroyed my tongue giving me sea ulcers and multiple jellyfish stings has sent me
33:25a little bit crazy it just feels like my whole body is on the verge of giving up
33:36oh i'm struggling i think uh i've been putting on a little bit of a brave face if i'm being
33:42honest
33:42just because i don't want the team or anyone to worry but basically what it is it's called a rhabdo
33:47so that's short for rhabdomyolysis and it the muscles are essentially liquefying
33:54the reason i know it's pretty bad that's a bottle of my piss um that is not the piss
34:02uh of a healthy man that is not healthy urine at all you'll notice the color basically muscles
34:08breaking down liquefying ended up in the bloodstream and you're just trying to basically filter it most
34:13doctors will say stop swimming and go to the nearest hospital i don't want to do that so
34:21we're basically going to tuck that away and keep this between us for the time being but that is a
34:28that is a deal with it later problem
34:35but we're walking a tight rope between trying to get this swim done
34:39but also not pushing ross too hard so that his body breaks down and it's not easy to watch
34:44someone that you care about suffer like that
34:49the reality is i am feeling it takes so much effort to get our bed and just put one arm
34:56in front of the
34:57other
35:01and there's more we've had storms before but nothing like this
35:13we have a hurricane which is the tail end of which is going to hit us probably the day after
35:17tomorrow we're going to lose anywhere between two to three days of swimming time which means up to
35:22eight swims so that's very worrying
35:28as iceland starts to feel the tail end of hurricane erin's deadly power it forces us to take shelter once
35:36again
35:39to 48 hours of sustain these long winds which creates a little bit of a service
35:43parents a tiny bit of help which might just send me back home just in time to see hester deliver
35:51the baby
35:55i know my body is not going to hold out much longer this is my last chance to nail this
36:02swim
36:05let's go swim this let's get me home even if we don't make it i'll go home and at least
36:12we tried
36:16dad's words of finish the job ring in my ears
36:20so there's one last roll of the dice to get us over the finish line and me back home to
36:27hester
36:40we swim the tail of the hurricane
36:53the year that my first child is going to be born i'd want to say we finished the swim
36:58in time and got home because i said i was going to do it
37:11great teams aren't built on victory laps they're built in the trenches
37:33you know
37:35finally finally we conquer the land of the giant
37:48it's it's the first time it's felt like this on the boat in that i am 98 sure we're gonna
37:55finish
38:07now 107 days since this crazy swim started we retrace our steps back to the kingdom
38:14of the bull there's now just 35 miles left back to where it all started
38:24as night falls finally we see the beam of the karor lighthouse and the distant lights of reykjavik
38:31welcoming us back
38:38this is iceland just showing us the exit having had enough of us swimming around
38:47urinating in the pool forget out right go home no
38:52112 days is that what it is yeah a young man when we started this
38:58well we all are so naive so full of hope and optimism
39:04and then suddenly it's nearly all over and there's just miles to go
39:16and as if to come out in celebration the northern lights put on a show for us
39:43this is nuts isn't it this is so crazy
39:52i was so cold but i don't care
39:57look at that one
40:09this is this is hands down the best swim so far
40:16all those days of thinking i would never finish
40:20of cold of feeling alone
40:24it almost makes you forget losing parts of your tongue
40:29chafing all around the coast of iceland
40:32and you're like oh this is amazing i'll do a second laugh
40:35i was like no no no no do not forget
40:40this is the first time i actually get to enjoy it a little bit
40:45right
40:46she dared
40:47probably think about finishing this i've got a baby to get back
41:00the aurora is dancing it's magical really really special
41:14what a last night
41:22there's now just one final swim to go
41:26news starts to filter out that we're approaching the finish
41:30ross just to say i knew you could do it i'm so proud of you
41:35a truly world-class feat one that is not going to be repeated for many years
41:40huge respect what a titan you are
41:44i raised my hat to you brother
41:52to many people that is a lighthouse to me
41:54that is the finish salvation
41:58and home time
41:59yeah
42:00that's what it is
42:06wow
42:09it has been an honor serving with you gentlemen
42:12yeah we'll kick out the boat one last time
42:17my friend said most people travel and collect souvenirs
42:21you collect stupid ideas
42:24this was amongst my most stupid
42:40here we go dudes
42:42yeah
42:43are you emotional
43:03we are at the end
43:05the end is right there and ross is just coming into his final final stretch
43:11there's a whopping 900 meters left and yeah it's crazy now he's whipping into the finish line
43:18it's amazing
43:20four months
43:23it just required levels of patience and discipline and a bunch of other stuff that i didn't even
43:32know i quite had in the locker
43:43history made
43:45so proud of your brother this is what you were made to do big love man well done
43:52all right ross there's the mate you are some kind of epic viking warship i love you mate you're an
43:58animal
43:58see you soon brother
44:00this swim has been amazing the whole adventure has been incredible
44:03i don't need anything else
44:06a lot of the team
44:07they were volunteers
44:09they completely selflessly just volunteered their entire time
44:13sleepless nights getting smashed by arctic storms
44:16they just did that
44:17out of the goodness of their heart
44:19and i think they
44:20they really deserve an amazing finish
44:23they deserve to be celebrated
44:25so i think
44:25personally
44:27i just want to go home i want a burger
44:30and i want to lay on hester's belly and listen to the baby
44:33that's what i want
44:36thank you
44:45that's awesome
44:46this is how it should end
44:52i didn't know how to finish this swim
44:56i haven't really allowed myself to think about the end
44:59because i was just so focused
45:02on putting one arm in front of the other
45:04now the end has arrived
45:07i got on land and i sort of panicked
45:10and i just sort of decided that it would be nice to bookend the swim
45:15because this place we started the whole journey here
45:19just kind of felt
45:20not right but it just
45:22just kind of felt nice to come back here
45:25and just sort of sit and
45:27and reflect
45:31after swimming for so long
45:32i'd love if this is
45:34almost a letter to my future son
45:37but also a tribute
45:38to everything that my dad taught me at the same time
45:41that would be really nice
45:42yeah
45:43letter to my future son
45:45tribute
45:46to my dad
45:47that'd be nice
45:55i don't want to wish away
45:57the finish
45:58and i don't want to rush the start
46:01of the next chapter
46:05one country
46:06four kingdoms
46:07a thousand miles
46:09a hundred and fourteen days
46:11iceland
46:12done
46:24i don't want to rush the last one
46:26i don't want to rush the last one
46:27i don't want to rush the last one
46:29and i don't want to rush the last one
46:30and i don't want to rush the last one
46:30and i don't want to rush the last one
46:30and i don't want to rush the last one
46:31and i don't want to rush the last one
46:31and i don't want to rush the last one
46:31and i don't want to rush the last one
46:32and i don't want to rush the last one
46:33and i don't want to rush the last one
46:33and i don't want to rush the last one
46:34and i don't want to rush the last one
46:38and i don't want to rush the last one
46:49Art born from awkward beginnings.
46:52Before the filmmaker, there was the boy.
46:55Steven Spielberg's The Fablemans at 9.15.
46:58Next, from ruins to revelations,
47:01Alice Roberts explores the Roman Empire by train.
47:11The Fablemans at 9.15.
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