Men's Fitness UK

WORTH ITS SALT

In the summer of 2014, Jamie Douglas-Hamilton – grandson of the first man to fly over Mount Everest – was in a spot of bother.

Floating in the middle of the Indian Ocean, he and the rest of the six-man rowing crew were battered, beaten and bereft of energy. After setting off from south-west Australia, they had endured vicious storms, equipment loss, a mid-ocean rescue (after one of the crew suffered serious boiling- water burns), and even a collision with a blue

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