TEDTalks: Lewis Pugh’s Mind-shifting Mt. Everest Swim [video]
source: http://scientopia.org/blogs/thisscientificlife/2010/08/03/tedtalks-lewis-pughs-mind-shifting...
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There are daredevils, and then there are DAREDEVILS -- Lewis Pugh is in the second category. After he swam the North Pole, Lewis Pugh vowed never to take another cold-water dip. Then, he heard of Mt. Everest’s Lake Imja — a body of water at an altitude of 5,300 meters, entirely created by recent glacial melting — and began a journey that would teach him a radical new way to approach both swimming and how to think about climate change.
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