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Lewis Pugh's mind-shifting Everest swim

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After he swam the North Pole, Lewis Pugh vowed never to take another cold-water dip. Then he heard of Lake Imja in the Himalayas, created by recent glacial melting, and Lake Pumori, a body of water at an altitude of 5300 m on Everest -- and so began a journey that would teach him a radical new way to approach swimming and think about climate change.

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TEDTalks, TED, Talks, activism, adventure, climate change, global issues, heroism, science, sports, TEDGlobal 2010, 2010

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