South African ultra-endurance athlete Cameron Bellamy has set his sights on completing the longest ever lake swim in Asia, a quest he had to put on hold during the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Thirty-nine-year Bellamy has already amassed 10 Guinness World Records, which include the first human-powered crossing by rowboat from South America to Antarctica - and the longest channel swim in history over 151km from Barbados to St Lucia.
He's now turning his attention to tackling the longest-ever lake swim in Central Asia next year, something that was logistically impossible to plan and put together during the height of the pandemic.
"Now that Covid seems to be finishing I'm looking into doing that massive 170 km swim across a lake in Kohistan. It will be the longest swim ever but something I'm excited about tackling," said Bellamy.
"I'm finishing up some studies at the moment and then I'm going to get back into the pool and some lakes around Cape Town and start training."
Bellamy completes all of his endurance feats for the Ubunye Challenge, a charity he founded in 2011 which focuses on funding infrastructure for early childhood development projects in the Eastern Cape and educational projects in Northern Zimbabwe.
Bellamy was in the Eastern Cape recently where his Ubunya Challenge, in conjunction with the Foundation, handed over Ipads and a safe sanitation block of toilets to an ECD at Peddie.
