Two men are planning a non-stop crossing from Scotland to Norway by sea kayak this summer.
Pete Goss and Andy Warrender will set off from the most easterly point of Shetland heading to Norway just under 200 miles away.
In February they completed their latest challenge, the circumnavigation of Tasmania by sea kayak at the ages of 51 and 52 respectively. It took them 50 days.
Mr Goss had previously sailed more than 250,000 nautical miles. He received a Legion d'Honneur for saving fellow sailor Raphael Dinelli in the 1996 Vendee Globe solo around-the-world yacht race.
Although he was a relative newcomer to kayaking before Tasmania, Mr Warrender has been undertaking kayaking adventures for years.
Now they will paddle non-stop for up to four days to reach Norway, a feat that has been tried before but never completed.
The challenge forms the "Gore-tex Guillemot Challenge", a homage to the voyage of Scotland's guillemot chicks, some of which swim right across the North Sea to Norway not long after hatching.
Mr Warrender said: "We thought, if they can do it, why can't we?"
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