BY BEN WEBSTER – The Times
An endurance swimmer is attempting a record-breaking swim across an Antarctic lake to raise awareness of climate change and the need to protect the ocean from overfishing.
Lewis Pugh left his base camp in east Antarctica yesterday to walk three hours across the ice to a “supraglacial” lake, formed by melting water collecting in depressions on the surface of the Antarctic ice sheet. He planned to abseil 70m down ice walls to the lake, strip off and spend about 20 minutes swimming 1km along it.
