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Hi, I'm Cath Pendleton, "The Merthyr Mermaid". I absolutely love ice/winter swimming, and in 2020 I achieved a Guinness World Record as the first female to swim a mile inside the Antarctic Polar Circle. I live near Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales, and "The Merthyr Mermaid" is the title of the BBC documentary on my Antarctic journey. It's available on the BBC iPlayer now.

I learnt to swim at about 4 years old and have always loved swimming. As a child I spent the school holidays playing in my local river. Throughout my life I have always enjoyed swimming for fitness. I rediscovered my childhood love of open-water swimming via triathlon. I did my first ever open-water swim in 2013 (2 km) and progressed onto 5 km, 10 km and then longer distance swims, including Lake Windermere (2016 and 2017). My longest swimming challenge was in 2018, the English Channel, solo. Ice Swimming I