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January 27, 2020

An extraordinary unprecedented feat: 50-year-old Lewis Pugh swam under an iceberg in Antarctica wearing only his swimsuit and a swimming cap. The length of the journey was 1 kilometer, the water temperature was around zero degrees. Swim time 10 minutes 17 seconds.

The swim was completed in the presence of the UN ambassador for Arctic and Antarctic, the Soviet hockey star Viaceslav Fetisov, and was dedicated to the bicentenary of the discovery of Antarctica by the Russian explorer Bellingshausen. Lewis Pugh's goal was to draw attention to environmental and climate change problems.

Lewis Pugh is not new to swimming in freezing waters but, according to his own confession, swimming under an iceberg was the challenge that frightened him most.