# My mind-shifting Everest swim

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDGlobal 2010
- Speaker: Lewis Pugh
- Year: 2010
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Earth and environment
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/lewis_pugh_my_mind_shifting_everest_swim)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

After he swam the North Pole, Lewis Pugh vowed never to take another cold-water dip. Then he heard of Lake Imja in the Himalayas, created by recent glacial melting, and Lake Pumori, a body of water at an altitude of 5300 m on Everest -- and so began a journey that would teach him a radical new way to approach swimming and think about climate change.

## Lectures

1. [My mind-shifting Everest swim](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/lewis_pugh_my_mind_shifting_everest_swim/ae570651c50e), 10 min (TED's player)