“It is an incredible feeling when you dive into the water …the water is 0°C. The most immediate reaction is massive, massive hyper-ventilation.

And then following that, you start losing feeling in all your fingers and all your toes…

…extreme pain,” explains Lewis Pugh about his 18-minute 1 km swim in Petermann Island off the Antarctic Peninsula in 2005.

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