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Article: Andy is between a hard place and rock.
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- Pocklington Post (Pocklington, England)
- Article date:
- May 13, 2008
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AN adventurer from Full Sutton is hoping to make his way into the record books for the second time in two years.
Last year Andy Strangeway was the first man to ever land and sleep on all 162 of the islands off the coast of Scotland, a challenge which took him four years to complete.
This time he has set his sights on landing and sleeping on Rockall, a small isolated and uninhabited island in the North Atlantic.
Measuring 75ft by 90ft, it sits 300 miles from the coasts of Scotland, Ireland and Iceland.
Mr Strangeway, 42, said that more people have landed on the moon than have landed on Rockall from the sea. The crew of 10 people hope to ...