Adventurer Lewis Pugh, known as the 'human polar bear' for his extreme swimming challenges, has safely crossed a glacial lake on Mount Everest to raise awareness of global warming.
Pugh, who has previously swum in Antarctica and the North Pole, not only had to battle extremely low temperatures of 2 degrees centigrade (36 fahrenheit) without a wet suit, he also had to cope with altitude sickness at over 5,300m.
"It's one of the hardest swims I've ever undertaken," said the 40 year old. "Swimming 20 metres at full speed in the test swim I felt I was going to drown."
"I was deeply concerned I wouldn't make 1km and I'm delighted that I've finally achieved it...I had to find a delicate balance between going too fast in which case I might drown due to hyperventilation and going too slowly and risk dying of hyperthermia."
Lewis says he took part in the swim to bring the "world's attention" to the melting of glaciers and its effect on the region.
He said: ''The glaciers in the Himalayas are not just ice. They are a lifeline - they provide water to approximately two billion people.''
Lewis swam the 1Km challenge in 22mins 55 seconds.
Via Goggleblog
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I deeply appreciate lewis's efforts to draw attention towards this world problem. It is high time we must do something to stop it otherwise it will be too late.
I think, We must learn from lewis's this effort and we should take a similar step, because still plenty left. yes if we not take any step then we will definitely going in big problem.
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I just want to tell he is awesome, because such a long swim across the ocean is difficult to. and he did this,
Its so hard work. I don't believe this how its possible.
He said: "It's one of the hardest swims I've ever undertaken. When I swam in Antarctica and across the North Pole I swam with speed and aggression but on Mount Everest you can't use the same tactics. Because of the altitude you need to swim very slowly and deliberately.
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