COLD WATER/HOT TOPIC
Lewis Pugh has been swimming for 35 years, 15 of them in the polar regions. But he says his battle is only just beginning. If he has one message, it is to the youth: ʻHold your parents, your school teachers, community leaders to account. The push which is coming from the youth now cannot come too soon.ʼ
Lewis completed 12 days, 7.8 gruelling kilometres across the face of the 65km-long, 2km-thick Ilulissat Glacier in western Greenland inside the Arctic Circle. Between 2000 and 2010, the glacier retreated nearly 14.5km, more than in the past century. He swam twice a day for about 10 minutes each session in water temperatures of anything from 3°C to 0°C, getting out the
