A winter talk with extreme cold water swimmer, adventurer and author Nuala Moore hosted by Cumann Seoltóireachta an Spidéil (CSS) has raised over 1,000 euro for the RNLI.
Galway Mountain Rescue also benefited with a sum of 650 euro raised from the talk by mountaineer, broadcaster and writer Dermot Somers.
The CSS winter talk series, entitled Adventurers in Our Midst, began in January with a talk by merchant mariner and sailor Eoghan Breathnach.
As reported by Afloat, Moore, from Dingle, Co Kerry, is a Guinness record holding marathon and ice swimmer.
Mountaineer, broadcaster and writer Dermot Somers Photo: Tom Curtis
She is author of the book, Limitless, which documents many of her swims, from relaying around Ireland to crossing the Bering Straits.
In 2018, she became the first swimmer to navigate Cape Horn, crossing the meridian from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean in the Drake Passage. She is also the first woman in the world to swim south of Cape Horn. During that trip, she brought the RNLI flag to the lighthouse on Cape Horn island.
Her packed talk in the Connemara Coast Hotel, Furbo, Co Galway last month raised a total of 1,113.10 euro for the RNLI’s Galway branch, which was represented by Colette Lavin at the event.
Earlier in February, a talk by Dermot Somers on nomadic journeys in Siberia, the Sahara, and the hazards of climbing north faces of the European alps raised 650 euro for Galway Mountain Rescue.
Somers has climbed all over the world, made a number of television series for TG4, and was a member of the successful Irish Everest Expedition, 1993.
He is author of a number of books, including the recently published Uncommon Ground: Adventures with Outsiders in Remarkable Terrain (Choice Publishing 2024). The collection is grounded in the author’s personal experience of extreme landscape, ranging from serious alpinism to desert and arctic travel.
