Sport Relief 2012 sewage. He swam a total distance in eight days, a total of 111,352 strokes were swam and 68,186 calories were burnt. So far he has raised £1,194,258 for Sport Relief. Fearless "Blue Peter" presenter Helen Skelton made it to the South Pole in just 18 days by ski, bike and kite, bringing her epic, Antarctic expedition to a triumphant close. For this gruelling challenge, she travelled up to 14 hours a day across the coldest and windiest place on earth, battling blizzards and sub-zero temperatures. It was shown for 9 weeks on Mondays on BBC1 at 4:30pm and an adult
Peter Powell (kite) of the kite with his sons Mark and Paul and on 14 June 2014 their first Kite store opened at the Cheltenham Shopping Centre. On 3 January 2016, he died at the age of 83 after a stroke at his home in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. Peter Powell (kite) Peter Trevor Powell (29 June 1932 – 3 January 2016) was a kite maker who developed a steerable kite in 1972, using dual lines. Very early on, Powell's kites had spars made of ramin ("Gonystylus") which were later replaced with aluminium tubing and, later still, by glass fibre spars. Originally they all came