Episode 9 - Lewis Pugh: I Swam Across the North Pole to Get World Leaders to Protect Our Future | Season 2 Premiere

He swam across the North Pole, through water colder than where the Titanic sank, to deliver one message to world leaders about our planet’s future.

Lewis Pugh, UN Patron of the Oceans, is one of the world’s most extraordinary endurance swimmers. In this Season 2 premiere of The Rebalance Earth Podcast, he shares what drove him to swim in –1.7°C water, and how that moment changed his life.

From the Arctic to the UN, Lewis explains what he’s witnessed beneath the surface: collapsing ecosystems, melting glaciers, and a future we can still protect... if we act now.

This is a conversation about courage, leadership, and the limits of endurance, both human and planetary.