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Our Story It began back in 2000 when SwimTrek’s founder Simon Murie was planning for his 30th birthday. He remembered as a boy growing up, reading about Byron’s crossing of the fabled Hellespont which divides Europe and Asia in north-west Turkey. It was made famous in Greek mythology by Leander’s nightly swims to his lover Hero. She would hold out a torch to guide Leander’s way. In the early morning he would swim back across the strait. Lord Byron, the English poet, entranced by Leander’s nightly feats became the first known person to actually cross the strait back in 1810. He took off to Turkey to attempt it himself, but it was anything other than easy to organise. It took him around a week

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