Endurance swimmer Lewis Pugh plans to do the coldest swimming he described Earth Highlight the speed at which the earth is melting.
Mr. Pugh has worked in Arctic, Antarctic, Himalayas And up English Channel Promote action to protect the environment, moving towards Greenland Because he is talking about his most challenging swimming to date.
He will swim 10 kilometers (6 miles) of the mouth of the Ilulissat Ice Fjord, in front of the fastest-moving glacier in the world, and in near-freezing waters, where wind chills can drop temperatures to negative numbers.
The multi-day tour will require the UN Marine Protector to travel in the water for a direct distance of far more than 10 kilometers, as he will sail around icebergs and floating ice blocks (called broken ice).
Mr. Pugh said that it is expected to take two weeks at the end of August. This will be the world’s first multi-day swimming in the polar regions and the coldest swimming on the planet.
Mr. Pugh will emphasize that climate change has led to the rapid melting of the Arctic and other regions, and then head to the important international Cop26 meeting in Glasgow in November to urge governments to take urgent action against the crisis.
He also called for the protection of 30% of the world’s oceans as part of efforts to curb climate change-healthy oceans are better able to store carbon and help protect the land from rising temperatures.
This swim happened after the United Nations issued a grim report on how humans are driving global warming, leading to increasingly dangerous extreme weather, melting ice caps and glaciers, and rising sea levels threatening coastal cities such as London and New York.
Mr. Pugh said: “What happens in the Arctic will determine the future of our planet and everything that lives on it.
“The polar regions feel the impact of the climate crisis more than any other place on the planet.
“If the temperature continues to rise, the polar ice caps will melt and sea levels will rise.
“Unless we take urgent action to lower global temperatures by drastically reducing global carbon dioxide emissions, low-lying islands and coastal cities will actually be submerged.”
He added: “The destruction of the natural world will affect everyone on this planet, every generation and every living thing, no matter how big or small.”
Ilulissat Glacier is UNESCO World Heritage Moving an average of 30 meters per day produces 10% of Greenland’s icebergs, some of which are more than 1 kilometer (0.6 miles) high, including, according to legend, the iceberg that sank the Titanic.
This swim will be the most challenging of my career
Mr. Pugh’s previous efforts in “Speedo Diplomacy”, as part of a campaign to promote action to protect the environment, used only swimming trunks, goggles and hats for extreme swimming, helping to protect large areas of the ocean.
He is currently training in Iceland and then transferred to Greenland before swimming, which is expected to start on August 25.
He said: “This swimming will be the most challenging of my career. The cold water adaptation and training alone is very hard and extremely intense for the body.
“But I did this for a reason. We are a species that depends on ice. Ice keeps our planet cool enough for us to survive.
“The polar regions and high-altitude glaciers are melting, and our collective survival is at stake.
