EVENTS
hatched, planned & coordinated by
calum HUDSON
The Guernsey Adventure
The brothers knew a few things about Guernsey, before they partnered with Visit Guernsey and agreed to escape London for a long weekend in their open waters. They heard that Victor Hugo spent some 15 years there in exile. And that his book ‘The Toilers of the Sea’ featured a protagonist who was at one point pitted against an enormous octopus. Calum had read up on the sudden terror of Nazi invasion, when the harbours were bombed and the Channel Islands fell under occupation. Jack also knew that this was an island of stoic swimmers, after a team from Guernsey smashed through and won the Movember ‘SwimTrek 60k Challenge’, which he ran back in November 2020…
THE HELLESPONT
For one day, The Strait of the Dardanelles (one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world) closes off its water and locals and tourists from around the world attempt a 4.5km swim from Europe to Asia…
DIFFICULTY: Intermediate
DURATION: 4.5km (roughly) / 2 hours (time limit)
GROUP SIZE: 700 (roughly)
LOCATION: Çanakkale, Turkey
THE RIVER MOLE
After the success of our Durdle Door event, we teamed up with Adventure Uncovered again and led a small group of 15 outdoor swimmers on a swimming safari down the River Mole in Surrey…
DATE: 30th june - 1st Jul 2018
DIFFICULTY: beginner to Intermediate
DURATION: 2 days
GROUP SIZE: 25
LOCATION: river mole, surrey
DURDLE DOOR
For our first event with Adventure Uncovered we took a group of 30 like-minded outdoor enthusiasts and camped overnight on one of England's most beautiful coastlines, The Jurassic Coast…
