A cold swim

Living in Scandinavia one gets use to swimming in cold water. At least as a child. Now as an adult the water has to be above 21-22 degrees before I dare to go in. Something that adventurer Lewis Gordon Pugh probably thinks is very warm. On July 15 he will go swimming at the North Pole to raise awareness of what’s happening at the Artic.

He will be the first person to swim there, in water temperatures of minus 1.8C (28.7F) - the coldest waters a human has ever swum in, a spokesman said.

He is making the one kilometre swim in an area that should be frozen over to demonstrate the devastating impact of climate change.

I’m getting cold just reading about it, but I really hope this will make people understand that the Artic is melting and that we have to be careful with Mother Earth. She’s the only one we got.