BY KEITH ROSSITER – Plymouth Herald
The Antarctic ice sheet is melting at an unprecedented rate, and as it melts, thousands of new lakes are forming.
The Plymouth-born endurance swimmer Lewis Pugh is Antarctica preparing to swim a kilometre across a newly formed lake on the melting Antarctic ice sheet.
As part of his training, he took to the icy waters of a tunnel below the ice yesterday for an eight-minute swim, wearing just swimming trunks and goggles.
