Swimming With The Icebergs

Lynne Cox became the world’s most famous long-distance swimmer at 15, when she broke both the men’s and women’s records for swimming the 33-mile English Channel. Three decades later, at 42, she pulled off a feat that was considered a medical impossibility – a 25-minute swim in the 32-degree waters of Antarctica, including a couple of detours to avoid icebergs. Now, in a fascinating look inside the mind and methods of a great athlete, she has written

Swimming to Antarctica: Tales of a Long-Distance Swimmer (Alfred A. Knopf, $24.95).

Read the entire article in the  February 2004 issue