A Melbourne veterinarian has swum the English Channel, climbed Mount Everest and skied to the South Pole – and now he’s about to dodge ferries around Manhattan Island.
Many of us dream of sightseeing in Manhattan, New York, on foot or by subway, but Melbourne veterinarian Rob Gropel is going to swim around the island.
It’s the latest super-sized fitness challenge for Gropel, 44, an Ivanhoe East veterinarian, who in the past 15 years has climbed both the highest mountains and the highest volcanos on seven continents. Shared love of adventure: the late Marisa Strydom and husband Rob Gropel on their Mount Everest climb at Base Camp in 2016.
Before Everest, they had conquered three of those summits, and Gropel believes Strydom would have wanted him to complete the project. “That’s what I believe. That was my motivation, to keep going,” he said. “It was her dream, her idea.”
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