BY EMILY BEAMENT – The Times
The endurance swimmer Lewis Pugh is to swim a kilometre across a lake on the Antarctic ice sheet to raise awareness of the climate crisis at the poles.
The latest challenge by the UN patron of the oceans is to dive into a stretch of water no human has swum in before.
Before he sets off next month, Pugh has put an advert in the jobs section of The Times looking for people to train with him off the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides from December 29.
