United KingdomRoss Edgley is the #15,272 most-subscribed YouTube creator worldwide and #993 in United Kingdom, with 266K subscribers and 33.5M total views across 216 videos. Ross Edgley is known as adventurer, athlete and author.
Biography
Ross Edgley is a British athlete, ultra-marathon sea swimmer and author. He holds multiple world records, but is perhaps most recognised for completing the World's Longest Staged Sea Swim in 2018, when he became the first person in history to swim 1,780 miles (2,860 km) around Great Britain, in 157 days In 2024, he also became the first person in history to simultaneously hold official Guinness World Records for long-distance swimming in the sea and river when he broke the record for the longest non-stop, continuous river swim down the Yukon River.
Channel description
Author | Adventurer | Swimmer
🇬🇧 1st Swim 1,780 Miles Around Great Britain
📚 Sunday Times Bestselling Author
🌎Documenting my training, diet and athletic adventures around the world
Latest videos Channel ↗
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SECRET TO SPRINT SPEED
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INJURY: 1,000 mile World Record Swim around Iceland
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Chocolate covered (caffeinated) banana: 10,000 calorie diet fuelling 1,000 mile World Record Swim
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World Record Swim: Iceland (1,000 miles) DOCUMENTARY on Channel 4 at 7:30pm: 7th, 14th & 21st of Feb
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‘SALT TONGUE”: 1,000 mile swim DOCUMENTARY (3 x 60 minutes) airs on Channel 4, 7:30pm: 7th February
Frequently asked
- How many subscribers does Ross Edgley have?
- 266K subscribers — #15,272 worldwide, #993 in United Kingdom.
- When did Ross Edgley start on YouTube?
- The channel was created in Nov 2014.