MORE than 150 hardy sportsmen and women braved the wind, rain and mud yesterday to take part in the World Bog Snorkelling Championship.
Competitors from across the UK turned out in force for the popular August Bank Holiday ritual in which everyone ends up with mud on their face.
At least 150 bog snorkellers registered before the event began with dozens more expected before its conclusion.
It is now more than two decades since the small Mid Wales town of Llanwrtyd Wells began hosting the annual challenge.
For the first time, Gorden Green, 74, the man who devised the event to help put the town on the tourist map, braved the elements himself.
Now retired, he turned out in flippers, a mask and a snorkel to get down and dirty in one of two 60-yard trenches dug into the bog outside the town.
