We’re in the grips of a wild swimming revolution. Swimming has long been one of the most popular participation sports in the UK, which is great, but it does mean local lidos and pools are often overcrowded…

Captain Lou Rudd is trudging into Antarctica’s heartland, confronted with an isolation that few of us could ever imagine. He is in the thick of something no one has ever done, alone in a frozen landscape untouched by human influence…

Nothing beats that rush of finding a new place to bathe outdoors. It’s the stuff of wild swimming dreams: you scramble through a screen of bushes like a countryside Columbus. Then suddenly a private waterfall appears, tumbling through fingers of mist into a clear pool edged by rocks…