Swimming With Skyscrapers

James Pittar is blind. He is also a long distance swimmer. In his amazing career he has swum across the English channel and taken on sharks and oil tankers. He is about to embark on a 48 kilometre swim around Manhatten Island. James will be the first blind person ever to complete the 8.5 hour marathon. An uplifting and hopeful story of one man's dreams fulfilled.

• Mark ForstmannDirector

• James PittarCast