The St Kilda Swim Team have been shortlisted for a national award which will be decided by a public vote.
The National Adventure Awards 2016 celebrate the very best of adventure across England,
Wales and Scotland; and the St Kilda Team are one of seven adventure groups to battle
it out to take the ‘Team of the Year’ title.
The island based team made history in August 2015 when the seven swimmers, swimming in relay formation, successfully completed a 60 mile route from St Kilda to Harris.
Swim team captain, Colin Macleod, said: “The St Kilda Swim Team are delighted to be shortlisted for the National Adventure Awards, but we’re definitely feeling like the underdogs when you see what some of the other teams have done.”
Also competing for the National Adventure Awards Team of the Year are the Eiger Paraclimb
2015 – a group of British paraclimbers who tackled the West Flank route of The Eiger
in Switzerland; as well as Robbie Phillips and Willis Morris, who became the youngest
team to complete the north face of The Eiger last year.
A team of 11 rugby players who trekked 60 miles to the magnetic North Pole to set
the Guinness World Record for playing rugby on the northernmost part of the world
are also competition; along with a father and son who undertook a canoe expedition
down the wild rivers of the Yukon in Canada; a two-
Raising over £21,500 for four charities – The Leanne Fund, The Fishermen’s Mission,
Aberlour Child Care Trust and Yorkhill Children’s Charity – the swimmers left Village
Bay, Hirta, St Kilda around 4am on Monday, August 17th last year and landed on Huishinish
slipway some 35 hours later.
The challenge had been postponed three times from May to July 2015 due to wild weather and high seas.
Online voting is open at www.scottishadventureawards.com/the-
St Kilda swimmers shortlisted for national adventure award
12 January 2016