{"id":8482,"date":"2010-08-05T17:32:47","date_gmt":"2010-08-05T17:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/08\/05\/lewis-pughs-mind-shifting-ever\/"},"modified":"2010-08-05T17:32:47","modified_gmt":"2010-08-05T17:32:47","slug":"lewis-pughs-mind-shifting-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/05\/lewis-pughs-mind-shifting-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Lewis Pugh&#8217;s mind-shifting Everest swim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8212; and so began a journey that would teach him a radical new way to approach swimming and think about climate change.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<!--copy and paste--><object width=\"446\" height=\"326\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/video.ted.com\/assets\/player\/swf\/EmbedPlayer.swf\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"\/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><param name=\"bgColor\" value=\"#ffffff\"><\/param><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"vu=http:\/\/video.ted.com\/talks\/dynamic\/LewisPugh_2010G-medium.flv&#038;su=http:\/\/images.ted.com\/images\/ted\/tedindex\/embed-posters\/LewisPugh-2010G.embed_thumbnail.jpg&#038;vw=432&#038;vh=240&#038;ap=0&#038;ti=928&#038;introDuration=15330&#038;adDuration=4000&#038;postAdDuration=830&#038;adKeys=talk=lewis_pugh_s_mind_shifting_mt_everest_swim;year=2010;theme=unconventional_explanations;theme=a_greener_future;theme=to_boldly_go;theme=a_taste_of_tedglobal_2010;theme=master_storytellers;theme=new_on_ted_com;event=TEDGlobal+2010;&#038;preAdTag=tconf.ted\/embed;tile=1;sz=512x288;\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8212; and so began a journey that would teach him a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/05\/lewis-pughs-mind-shifting-ever\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lewis Pugh&#8217;s mind-shifting Everest swim<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-2cO","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8482"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}