In the cold, all the blood rushes to your core to protect your heart, lungs, kidneys, liver, and brain. When you leave the water, the blood rushes back to your arms and legs, absorbs that freezing cold, and brings it back to the heart. Lewis Gordon Pugh Read Quote
I can’t think of anything more important than the environment we leave to our children and our children’s children. Lewis Gordon Pugh Read Quote
The problem with climate change is that it’s quite complicated for the ordinary person to understand. Lewis Gordon Pugh Read Quote
Swimming has been a very effective medium for telling a story about the state of our planet. Lewis Gordon Pugh Read Quote
The days of exploration of Shackleton and Scott are long gone. Everything has been climbed, crossed, done. Now what we’re exploring are the full boundaries of human endeavour. It’s not physical – it’s all in the head. Lewis Gordon Pugh Read Quote
Normally I don’t race other people; I challenge the environment and my own limitations. Lewis Gordon Pugh Read Quote
When I was born, the world’s population was 3.5 billion. There are now 6.8 billion people on the planet. By 2050, that’s expected to rise to 9.4 billion. What’s more, the Earth’s resources aren’t growing; they’re decreasing – and rapidly. Lewis Gordon Pugh Read Quote
Not to be too grandiose about it, but in a way I see myself like Sir Edmund Hillary. The water was my Everest. Lewis Gordon Pugh Read Quote
On my second swim at Deception Island, the water was very clear and I was looking at hundreds of whale bones beneath me. It was a graveyard from the whaling some time in the 1920s-30s. Lewis Gordon Pugh Read Quote
The swim at Deception Island was by far the hardest swim I’ve ever done. Antarctica is a very unforgiving environment. If you don’t train properly, you’ll die. Lewis Gordon Pugh Read Quote
