Against The Tides (SwimTrek)
“The Oceans Seven is one of the toughest challenges an open water swimmer could ever face. Seven gruelling crossings around the world. Each with their own unique set of difficulties, kindly designed to ‘take a swimmer apart’...”
Beth French is a self-employed massage therapist and single mother from Somerset, once wheelchair-bound as a teenager due to chronic fatigue syndrome (ME). She is also a world record-holding marathon swimmer, who discovered an innate love of open water in her early 20s, in Hawaii. Later, she became the first person to swim from Cornwall to the Isles of Scilly and discovered a taste for endurance, alongside an ability to overcome primal fears of dangerous animals and deep waters, as well as physical resistance to hypothermia, wild currents and soul-sapping fatigue.
In her latest challenge, Beth set out to complete the Oceans Seven to inspire her son, Dylan (who has autism), and to also defy all expectations in a world in which ‘women are not meant to be ambitious’…
