The Crossing

£8.99

When James Cracknell and Ben Fogle decided to compete in the Atlantic Rowing Race, they thought they knew what awaited them: nearly three thousand miles of empty ocean, stormy weather and colossal physical stress.
But as the security of dry land became a distant memory, the full enormity of what they had committed themselves to became apparent: they were surrounded by ocean on all sides, hundreds of miles from home, trapped together in a tiny space for every waking moment. And as their epic journey would became at times a living hell testing the strength of every fibre of their being, winning the race was clearly the least of their worries...

Yet, forty seven days later, James and Ben were the first pair to cross the finishing line, overtaking one of the fourman teams in the process, and becoming the first British pair ever to win the race. They had pushed themselves physically, psychologically and emotionally to the limit. They survived without water rations, lost the few clothes they had, capsized, hallucinated, wept, fought, played games, grown beards, nursed blisters and rowed a staggering 2,930 miles.

The Crossing is the extraordinarily honest account of James and Ben's epic race. From cooking in a force eight gale and rubbing cream into one another's blisters to swimming with whales and believing your partner has drowned. They are never going to be the same again.