Cameron Bellamy Goes On Another Ubunye Challenge To Support Food For Families Courtesy of Ubunye Challenge, Issyk-Kul, Kyrgyzstan. Cameron Bellamy leverages his marathon adventures to raise funds to support the significant projects of the Ubunye Challenge, a charity he founded several years ago. While the focus of the Ubunye Challenge is on providing
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. When we observe open water swimmers around the world, certain nationalities always impress us. The South Africans are freakily tough. The Irish are notoriously hard-core. The Australians are mind-boggling adventurous. There are also certain areas where the tough are an especially hardened group:
14 dramatically walked in through large surf and 14 successfully walked out. The 100% success rate for the 14 swimmers who participated in today’s 8 km Swim For Hope in South Africa was augmented by the record-breaking swims on both the men's and women's side. The tough extreme open water swim around Cape Point was performed in support of the Little
15 swimmers between 24 and 61 years will attempt an extreme Swim For Hope tomorrow around Cape Point in South Africa. Fewer than 25 people in the history have successfully completed the 8 km rounding of Cape Point (also known as Cape of Storms). Since the first swim by Lynne Cox in 1979, swims have been limited by the presence of Great White Sharks that
Whether it is passing under the finish archway in a mass participation swim like the Great North Swim, or a slow crawl up on the rocks after a channel swim in Catalina, how swimmers feel when they step up on the shore can widely vary. At that moment of completion, some athletes free elation, others relief, and others satisfaction and pride. Others fall in
Theodore Yach describes his latest rough water exploit in his 8 km swim around Cape Point. Watching the weather is a bit of a science – read obsession – for ocean swimmers in Cape Town so when I realised by Thursday evening that the weekend would be a great Robben Island to 3 Anchor Bay opportunity I tried to raise a crew. My plans came to nought when
"I was struggling without my goggles in the cold after being crushed by the waves...but I was in a zone where everything was going to that place," explains Carina Bruwer. "It was like I was semi-unconscious..." It was brilliant. The swim had meaning. I was on a mission not for myself, but for the Little Fighters Cancer Trust." She swam 8.5 km around
What Carina Bruwer does is, in a few words, maternally inspirational and athletically amazing. She has completed marathon swims across False Bay in South Africa, the Strait of Gibraltar from Spain to Morocco, Swim Around Key West in Florida (USA), International Swimming Marathon of Toroneos Gulf (Greece), English Channel in 12 hours 3 minutes, Around
The multi-talented Carina Bruwer, the lead player of SAMA Award-winning instrumental pop group Sterling EQ, successfully rounded Cape Point in South Africa this Tuesday. The renowned South African open water swimmer finished the 8 km extreme Swim for Hope in 2 hours 36 minutes. The solo charity swim was performed in support of the Little Fighters Cancer
Two open water swimming landmarks in South Africa include Cape Point and the Cape of Good Hope. Lewis Pugh has used both to sight off of when he has swum in the ocean near the tip of the African continent. "While Cape Point is structurally more impressive, I prefer the Cape of Good Hope," explains the legendary aquatic adventurer. "I just love its name."
