The “wild swimming” trend — aka open-water swimming, or taking dips in lakes, rivers, streams or even the sea — isn't exactly new. Still, it has been increasing in popularity over the past decade, ...

I downloaded the Wild app and saw hundreds of pins all over Ireland and Scotland. But when I looked at the map of Charleston, there was only one pin: a photo of Waterfront Park with a picture of the ...

It began with a rainy day in a moat. The idea of a long swim through Britain came to the naturalist Roger Deakin in a period of personal sadness and isolation. The year was 1996: at the age of 53, he ...

The water below me is 11ºC, which doesn’t appear to bother the ducks sailing past, preening themselves in the morning mist. Around me, a few other regulars are making their slow descent into the ...