Category: Winter Swimming
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How Cold Water Swimmers in Cornwall Recharge Each Dawn at Battery Rocks | Surfdome
The Battery Rocks swimmers can be found every morning in Penzance, Cornwall. An assortment of people from all walks of life and a variety of ages – from those in their teens to those in their eighties – there are the full makings of a community. For four of the women that meet there –…
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Dublin Seaside Busker Sings to Brave Winter Lockdown Swimmers Fun Dancing | FRO Films
In the lockdown of Winter, droves of swimmers came to the swim spots in Ireland despite the cold water, including Seapoint. This busker entertained the masses who sang and danced along. Nov 8 with Pat Hennessy
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Ice Swimmer Lewis Pugh’s Stark Climate Warning: Without Polar Ice, There Is No Life on Earth | Sky News
UN patron of the Oceans Lewis Pugh has completed what’s been described as the ‘coldest swim on earth’ in Greenland to highlight the speed at which polar ice is melting.
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Lewis Pugh Starts ‘Coldest Swim on Earth’ for Climate Crisis | Evening Standard
Lewis Pugh begins his swim across the 10-kilometer mouth of the Ilulissat Icefjord in Greenland to highlight the speed of the Climate Crisis ahead of the UN Climate Conference (Cop26) in Glasgow, where Pugh will address world leaders and demand urgent action. The Ilulissat Icefjord is fed by the world’s fastest-moving glacier – moving at…
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Endurance Swimmer Lewis Pugh Prepping for the Coldest Swim on Earth | BizNewsTv
Lewis Pugh is an endurance swimmer and UN Patron of the Oceans. This month he will be swimming across the mouth of Greenland’s Ilulissat Icefjord, which is fed by the world’s fastest-moving glacier. It will be the first multi-day Polar Swim ever attempted. This is footage of him prepping for that icy swim.
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The British Woman Breaking Records With Icy Swims In The Antarctic | This Morning
In February 2020, Welsh ice swimmer Cath Pendleton made history by becoming the first person to swim a mile in the icy waters inside the polar Antarctic Circle. An unlikely world record holder, the mum-of-two and NHS worker – also known as the Merthyr Mermaid – only started cold water swimming in 2015. Now the…
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Climate Change: Lewis Pugh on ‘Most Challenging’ Arctic Swim Yet, Ice Continues to Melt
Endurance swimmer Lewis Pugh joins the Tech & Science Daily podcast to tell us about his next attempt to make the coldest swim on Earth this month, to highlight the speed of climate change. He will swim alongside a 10-kilometer glacier at a giant ice fjord north of the Arctic Circle in Greenland at the…
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Lewis Pugh to Attempt ‘Coldest Swim on Earth’ to Highlight Climate Change | Sky News
Oceans campaigner and champion swimmer Lewis Pugh will attempt “the coldest swim on Earth” to highlight the damaging effects of climate change.
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Lewis Pugh Attempting ‘Coldest Swim on Earth’ to Highlight Climate Crisis | The Independent
Endurance swimmer Lewis Pugh is planning to tackle what he describes as “The Coldest Swim on Earth” to highlight the climate crisis.