Army team finishes mammoth Pacific Challenge row, facing 'biblical rainstorms' and incredible stars

A British Army team of four from the Royal Yorkshire Regiment has finished fourth in a gruelling 2,800-mile challenge from California to Hawaii as part of a race dubbed as one of the world's toughest rows.

Their time of 35 days, two hours and 16 minutes placed them ahead of 29 other boats and the route saw them row from Monterey Bay in California to Hawaii.

The four members of Team Pacific One met when they were serving together in the Royal Yorkshire Regiment and believed that their time in the military set them up well for an endurance race of such magnitude.

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Speaking at the finish line, Major Simon Farley said: "It's every emotion that you can possibly imagine, from one extreme to the other.

"You have incredible nights of stars that you wouldn't even believe to, then, biblical rainstorms that come in and are gone in five minutes.

"Forty-foot swells to days of glassy calm, albatrosses, a thousand miles away from land, looking at you and you're looking at them thinking, 'what are we both doing here?' It's everything you could possibly imagine."