BY Hannah SPARKS – New York Post
A 50-year-old endurance athlete is swimming beneath an ice sheet in Antarctica to raise awareness of climate change.
On Monday, Lewis Pugh plunged into a river formed beneath a rapidly melting ice sheet and swam through waters just a few degrees above zero — wearing nothing but a Speedo, hair cap and goggles. The British-South African swimmer from Plymouth, England gushed over the natural beauty of the South Pole.
