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Wild Swimming Guide: everything you need to know
Wild swimming is one of our favourite ways to be brave, get in touch with nature and reset. If you...
Where Can I Go Wild Swimming?: Essential Guide for Swim
Where can you go wild swimming near you? How far will you have to travel to find water you are...
How To Get Into Cold Water: Complete Step-by-Step Guide
Cold water - how do you get in? Why do you do it? Is there any way to make it...
Wild swimming guides and open water
Cold Rush: Your Guide to Winter Wild Swimming
A massive surge of adrenaline. An instant feeling of being completely and utterly alive. And the most amazing buzz that...
Simon Griffiths on the Joy of Open Water Swimming
Simon Griffiths is the founder of Outdoor Swimmer magazine. He lives and breathes swimming. In the pool, training for triathlons...
Wild swimming in mountain lakes and tarns
Are you ready to add a splash of adventure to your outdoor activities? If you’re captivated by the charm of...
Wetsuit and swimwear kit guide
Feel the Water. Terrapin Natural Swimming Wetsuit.
Natural swimming has a particular feel. Your body sits level. Your stroke comes from you rather than the suit. You're...
Outdoor Swimming Wetsuits That Perform
We've been swimming in the outdoors since before we can remember. We delight in a dip when hiking in the...
Care Guide: How To Look After Your Swimming Wetsuit
The better you look after your wetsuit, the longer and happier a life it will lead. Here’s how to keep...
Why we use Econyl ® in our swimwear
We swim to reconnect. With the cold clarity of open water, with the rhythm of our breath, and with something...
Open water access and outdoor swimming
We have the right to swim
Who has the right to swim outdoors? We do. In lakes, reservoirs, rivers and streams. In waterfalls, tarns and seapools....
Go Wild Swimming and the Kinder Trespass
Alpkiteer and founder of The Outdoor Swimming Society, Kate Rew, tells us about the recent trespass swim in Kinder Reservoir....
10 Tips for Outdoor Swimming Safety
Outdoor swimming is more popular than ever these days! More and more of us are re-discovering the child-like joy of...
Outdoor Swimming for Two
I’ve always had a strong affinity with water. As a youngster I was a keen club swimmer and spent many...
Wild swimming stories
The Joys of swimming in the Autumn
This is a blog about the joys of swimming through the changing seasons, written by one of our Alpkiteers, Katie...
From Summer Dips to Winter Plunges: Steph's Journey into Wild Swimming
I’ve been outdoor swimming for around a decade – when I lived in Canada for a few years, it was...
Cold Water Music
Making it through the winter as a swimmer is always a challenge. Every year, I romanticise it—imagining cold, frosty mornings,...