DIVE IN
“I think I’m the first Brit to ever swim up a mountain,” says Professor Greg Whyte OBE, former Olympian and Professor of Sport and Exercise Science at Liverpool John Moores University. “I’ve just been down to the University of Portsmouth where I swam in a flume within an air chamber. The air was gradually altered to give the effect of constantly increasing the altitude so I started out at sea level and swam as the ‘altitude’ increased to around 2000m - technically swimming uphill all the way!”