Lewis Pugh is a British overland swimmer and environmental activist who set out on a day-long trip to the United Nations Headquarters in New York on Sunday – swimming in the Hudson River.
Pugh begins at the source of the river in the Adirondack Mountains of New York State. The route he wants to travel is about 500 kilometers long and ends at an estuary in the Atlantic Ocean near Manhattan.
“After a stormy night camping in the mountains, I went to the source of the Hudson,” the 53-year-old swimmer wrote on Platform X. With this campaign he wants to draw attention to the protection of the oceans.
16 Kilometer Pro Tag
The Briton, who is also a UN patron of the oceans, would like to cover an average of 16 kilometers per day. His journey should be completed around September 20. Then the United Nations will start ratifying the Convention for the Protection of the World’s Oceans, which the participating states adopted in June 2023 after years of negotiations.
This is not the swimmer’s first action intended to attract attention. In 2007, Pugh became the first person to swim a distance over land in the North Pole. The 53-year-old has also swum land distances on all the world’s seas.
Source: Krone
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