Achieving the impossible - Lewis Gordon Pugh
KORTE INHOUD
Have you ever taken a cold shower, a really cold shower, on a very cold day? Did you first put your arms under the spray of water, followed by your legs before easing your torso into the pain and then, finally, with what seemed like the hardest thing you'd ever done, move your head into the line of freezing-cold fire? The temperature of that water was probably between ten or eleven degrees. At a little after midnight on July 15, 2007, Lewis Gordon Pugh stood on the edge of the sea ice at the North Pole. It was the fifteenth anniversary of his father's death and he was wearing just a Speedo swimsuit, the old-fashioned one that barely covers all that needs to be covered. Air temperature at the North Pole that night was below zero, the water into which he was about to plunge was minus 1.7ºC (29ºF) although this was no in-and-out dip into the world's coldest water. Pugh was about to swim one kilometre across the North Pole and the thought did cross his mind that he might die. If you had been alongside Professor T...
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2010 Uitgever: Jonathan Ball Publishers SA Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 1868423409 ISBN-13: 9781868423408Koop dit boek tweedehands
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