Glaciers are not just ice: they are a lifeline, they
provide water to 2 billion people, and we need to protect
them.
Pushing his body through epic cold-water swims, Lewis Pugh wants
to draw attention to our global climate. At the end of May 2010 he
swam 1 kilometer across Pumori, a meltwater lake situated next to
the Khumbu Glacier on Mount Everest, at an altitude of 5300 meters,
to draw attention to the melting of the Asian glaciers. He
completed the swim, the highest any person has undertaken , in less
than 23 minutes.