Tag: Lewis Gordon Pugh

The 48-year-old finished the 560km (348 mile) gruelling swim from Land’s End in Cornwall to Dover in Kent in 49 days. He was greeted at Shakespeare Beach by Environment Secretary Michael Gove. The environmental campaigner and UN Patron of the Oceans began the challenge on 12 July, swimming 10 to 20km (six to 12 miles)…

Lewis Pugh is swimming the length of the Channel – around 330 miles (530km) – from Cornwall to Dover, to raise awareness of the world’s oceans.

FXTM is supporting Lewis Pugh for “The Long Swim” – a 560km challenge along the English Channel – and welcomes him as FXTM Brand Ambassador in his humanitarian fight for a blue economy. To ensure that our time – and the time spent by future generations – remains our most precious commodity, we are raising…

UN Patron of the Oceans & FXTM Brand Ambassador Lewis Pugh is on a mission. He’s begun #TheLongSwim – an epic, world-first, swim along the English Channel – to raise awareness about plastic pollution in the ocean. Get a glimpse of his thought process right before he set off from Land’s End a week ago.

Lewis Pugh, oceans campaigner and endurance athlete, continues his ‘unrelenting’ mission through the dark sea.

Endurance athlete Lewis Pugh will begin to tackle an unprecedented swim across the entire English Channel.

Oceans Campaigner Lewis Pugh aims to swim from Land’s End to Dover in 50 days. How will he survive along this treacherous coastline?