Lewis Pugh swims the North Pole

Translator: Zuzana Dziaková Reviewer: Peter Štrba

Today I want to talk to you about

Dnes by som vám chcel porozprávať

swimming across the North Pole,

o mojom plávaní naprieč Severným pólom,

across the most northern place in the whole world.

naprieč najsevernejším miestom našej planéty.

And perhaps the best place to start is with my late father.

Najprv by som však rád povedal niečo o mojom zosnulom otcovi.

He was a great storyteller.

Bol výborný rozprávač.

He could tell a story about an event,

Rozprával príbehy tak,

and so you felt you were absolutely there at the moment.

že vás dokázal vtiahnuť do deja, akoby ste tam práve boli.

And one of the stories he told me so often when I was a young boy

Jedným takým, ktorý mi ako chlapcovi často rozprával,

was of the first British atomic bomb test.

bol ten o prvom jadrovom pokuse Veľkej Británie.

He had been there and watched it go off.

Bol tam, sledoval to.

And he said that the explosion was so loud

Výbuch bol taký hlučný

and the light was so intense,

a svetlo také intenzívne,

that he actually had to put his hands in front of his face to protect his eyes.

že si musel rukami zakryť oči, aby si ich ochránil.

And he said that he could actually see an x-ray

V skutočnosti vtedy videl svoje ruky tak,

of his fingers,

akoby sa díval na ich röntgenové snímky.

because the light was so bright.

Svetlo bolo až také jasné.

And I know that watching that atomic bomb going off

Viem, že byť svedkom výbuchu atomovej bomby

had a very, very big impact on my late father.

malo veľký vplyv na môjho zosnulého otca.

Every holiday I had as a young boy

Ako chlapca ma počas prázdnin

was in a national park.

brával do národného parku.

What he was trying to do with me was to inspire me

Snažil sa ma inšpirovať k tomu,

to protect the world,

aby som chránil svet

and show me just how fragile the world is.

a chcel mi ukázať, aký je krehký.

He also told me about the great explorers.

Rozprával mi aj o významných bádateľoch.

He loved history. He would tell me about Captain Scott

Zbožňoval históriu. Hovoril mi o kapitánovi Scottovi,

walking all the way to the South Pole

ako sa dostal až k Južnému pólu,

and Sir Edmund Hillary climbing up Mount Everest.

o Sirovi Edmundovi Hillarym, ktorý vyliezol na Mount Everest.

And so ever since I think I was just six years old,

Od doby, keď som mal asi 6 rokov,

I dreamed of going to the polar regions.

som sníval, ako pôjdem za polárny kruh.

I really, really wanted to go to the Arctic.

Veľmi, veľmi som chcel ísť do Arktídy.

There was something about that place

Na tom mieste je niečo,

which drew me to it.

čo ma tam ťahalo.

And, well, sometimes it takes a long time

No, áno, niekedy to trvá hodnú chvíľu,

for a dream to come true.

pokým sa sny stanú skutočnosťou.

But seven years ago, I went to the Arctic

Ale pred siedmimi rokmi som po prvýkrát

for the first time.

navštívil Arktídu.

And it was so beautiful that I've been back there

Je tam tak krásne, že som tam odvtedy,

ever since, for the last seven years.

počas posledných siedmych rokov, bol už niekoľkokrát.

I love the place.

Zbožňujem to miesto.

But I have seen that place change

Avšak videl som, ako sa zmenilo

beyond all description,

neopísateľným spôsobom

just in that short period of time.

za veľmi krátky čas.

I have seen polar bears walking across very, very thin ice

Videl som, ako ľadové medvede kráčali po veľmi, veľmi tenkom ľade

in search of food.

pri hľadaní potravy.

I have swum in front of glaciers

Plával som pred ľadovcami,

which have retreated so much.

ktoré veľmi ustúpili.

And I have also, every year,

Taktiež som bol svedkom každoročného

seen less and less sea ice.

úbytku morského ľadu.

And I wanted the world to know what was happening up there.

Chcel som, aby sa o tom dozvedel celý svet.

In the two years before my swim,

Počas dvoch rokov pred mojím plávaním

23 percent of the arctic sea ice cover

23 % ľadovej pokrývky arktických vôd

just melted away.

sa len tak roztopilo.

And I wanted to really shake the lapels of world leaders

Chcel som chytiť svetových lídrov za goliere a zatriasť nimi,

to get them to understand what is happening.

aby konečne pochopili, čo sa tu deje.

So I decided to do this symbolic swim

Preto som sa rozhodol pre toto symbolické plávanie,

at the top of the world, in a place which should be frozen over,

na vrchole sveta, na mieste, ktoré by malo byť zamrznuté,

but which now is rapidly unfreezing.

avšak dnes sa rýchlo rozmŕza.

And the message was very clear:

Moje posolstvo je jasné:

Climate change is for real,

Klimatické zmeny sú skutočné

and we need to do something about it.

a musíme s tým niečo urobiť.

And we need to do something about it right now.

Musíme s tým niečo urobiť hneď teraz.

Well, swimming across the North Pole,

No, plávanie naprieč Severným pólom

it's not an ordinary thing to do.

nie je každodenná záležitosť.

I mean, just to put it in perspective,

Aby ste si to vedeli predstaviť,

27 degrees is the temperature of a normal indoor swimming pool.

27°C je teplota normálneho krytého bazéna.

This morning, the temperature of the English Channel was 18 degrees.

Dnes ráno mal Lamanšský prieliv teplotu 18°C.

The passengers who fell off the Titanic

Cestujúci, ktorí spadli z Titanicu,

fell into water of just five degrees centigrade.

spadli do vody o teplote 5°C.

Fresh water freezes at zero.

Voda mrzne pri 0°C

And the water at the North Pole is minus 1.7.

a voda na Severnom póle má -1,7°C.

It's fucking freezing.

To je zasratá zima.

(Laughter)

(smiech)

(Applause)

(potlesk)

I'm sorry, but there is no other way to describe it.

Ospravedlňujem sa, ale inak sa to opísať nedá.

(Laughter)

(smiech)

And so I had to assemble an incredible team around me

Musel som okolo seba zhromaždiť úžasný tím,

to help me with this task.

ktorý by mi s touto úlohou pomohol.

I assembled this team of 29 people from 10 nations.

Zhromaždil som tím 29-tich ľudí z 10 krajín.

Some people think that swimming is a very solo sport,

Niektorí si možno myslia, že plávanie je šport pre jednotlivca,

you just dive into the sea and off you go.

jednoducho sa ponoríte a plávate.

It couldn't be further from the truth for me.

Pre mňa to už ďalej od pravdy ani nemôže byť.

And I then went and did a huge amount of training,

Potom som absolvoval množstvá tréningov,

swimming in icy water, backwards and forwards.

plávania v ľadovej vody, sem a tam.

But the most important thing was to train my mind

Najdôležitejšie bolo, aby som sa v mysli pripravil na to,

to prepare myself for what was going to happen.

čo som sa chystal spraviť.

And I had to visualize the swim.

V duchu som si predstavoval to plávanie.

I had to see it from the beginning all the way to the end.

Od začiatku, celú cestu, až po koniec.

I had to taste the salt water in my mouth.

Musel som v ústach cítiť slanú vodu.

I had to see my coach screaming for me,

Vidieť trénera, ako na mňa kričí:

"Come on Lewis! Come on! Go! Go! Go! Don't slow down!"

"Poďme, Lewis! Poďme! Ideš! Ideš! Ideš! Nespomaľuj!"

And so I literally swam across the North Pole

V podstate som naprieč Severným pólom preplával

hundreds and hundreds of times in my mind.

už stokrát v mojej hlave.

And then, after a year of training, I felt ready.

A potom, po ročnom tréningu, som bol pripravený.

I felt confident that I could actually

Veril som si, že vlastne

do this swim.

toto plávanie zvládnem.

So myself and the five members of the team,

Tak som si spolu s 5 členmi môjho tímu

we hitched a ride on an icebreaker

stopol ľadoborec

which was going to the North Pole.

na cestu na Severný pól.

And on day four, we decided to just do a quick

Štvrtý deň sme sa rozhodli

five minute test swim.

pre skušobné 5-minutové plávanie.

I had never swum in water of minus 1.7 degrees before,

Nikdy predtým som neplával vo vode o teplote -1,7°C,

because it's just impossible to train

pretože je priam nemožné trénovať

in those types of conditions.

v takýchto podmienkach.

So we stopped the ship, as you do.

Zastavili sme loď.

We all got down onto the ice,

Vystúpili sme na ľad

and I then got into my swimming costume

a ja som si obliekol plavecký oblek

and I dived into the sea.

a ponoril sa do mora.

I have never in my life felt anything

Nikdy v živote som sa necítil tak

like that moment.

ako v tej chvíli.

I could barely breathe. I was gasping for air.

Sotva som dýchal. Lapal som po dychu.

I was hyperventilating so much,

Začal som hyperventilovať

and within seconds my hands were numb.

a za niekoľko sekúnd mi znecitliveli ruky.

And it was -- the paradox is

A bolo to - je to paradoxné,

that you're in freezing cold water,

pretože v takej ľadovej vode máte pocit,

but actually you're on fire.

akoby ste horeli.

I swam as hard as I could for five minutes.

Snažil som sa plávať z plných síl 5 minút.

I remember just trying to get out of the water.

Pamätám si len, ako som sa snažil dostať z vody.

I climbed out of the ice.

Vyliezol som na ľad

And I remember taking the goggles off my face

a keď som si dal dole z tváre okuliare,

and looking down at my hands in sheer shock,

pozrel som sa na svoje ruky v čistom šoku,

because my fingers

pretože moje prsty

had swollen so much that they were like sausages.

mi tak napuchli, že pripomínali klobásy.

And they were swollen so much, I couldn't even close them.

Napuchli tak veľmi, že som ich nemohol zovrieť do päste.

What had happened is that we are made partially of water,

Ide o to, že z časti sme tvorení vodou

and when water freezes it expands.

a keď voda zamŕza, tak sa rozťahuje.

And so what had actually happened is

Takže sa stalo to,

that the cells in my fingers had frozen and expanded.

že bunky v mojich prstoch zamrzli a roztiahli sa.

And they had burst. And I was in so much agony.

A roztrhali sa. Prežíval som strašné muky.

I immediately got rushed onto the ship and into a hot shower.

Okamžite ma hnali na loď a do horúcej sprchy.

And I remember standing underneath the hot shower

Pamätám si, ako som stál pod horúcou vodou

and trying to defrost my fingers.

a snažil sa rozmraziť si prsty.

And I thought, in two days' time, I was going to do this swim across the North Pole.

Myslel som na to, že za dva dni sa pokúsim plávať naprieč Severným pólom.

I was going to try and do a 20-minute swim,

Mal som v pláne pokúsiť sa o 20-minútové plávanie,

for one kilometer across the North Pole.

1 kilometer naprieč Severným pólom.

And this dream which I had had ever since I was a young boy

Ten môj sen z detských čias, ktorý som mal

with my father, was just going out the window.

so svojím otcom, mi mizol pred očami.

There is no possibility that this was going to happen.

Nie je možné, aby som to zvládol.

And I remember then getting out of the shower

Pamätám si, že keď som vyšiel zo sprchy,

and realizing I couldn't even feel my hands.

uvedomil som si, že si necítim ruky.

And for a swimmer, you need to feel your hands

Pre plavca je veľmi dôležité, aby si cítil ruky,

because you need to be able to grab the water

aby mohol uchopiť vodu

and pull it through with you.

a dostať sa cez ňu.

The next morning, I woke up

Nasledujúce ráno, keď som vstal,

and I was in such a state of depression,

mal som strašnú depresiu

and all I could think about was Sir Ranulph Fiennes.

a myslel som iba na pána menom Sir Ranulph Fiennes.

For those of you who don't know him, he's the great British explorer.

Tí, ktorí ho nepoznajú - je to významný britský výskumník.

A number of years ago, he tried to ski all the way to the North Pole.

Pred niekoľkými rokmi sa pokúsil na lyžiach dostať až k Severnému pólu.

He accidentally fell through the ice into the sea.

Preboril sa pod ním ľad a spadol do mora.

And after just three minutes in that water,

Až po necelých 3 minútach v tej vode

he was able

sa mu podarilo

to get himself out.

dostať sa von.

And his hands were so badly frostbitten

Jeho ruky boli tak silno poškodené mrazom,

that he had to return to England.

že sa musel vrátiť naspäť do Anglicka.

He went to a local hospital and there they said,

V miestnej nemocnici mu povedali:

"Ran, there is no possibility

"Ran, nie je v našich silách

of us being able to save these fingers.

tie prsty zachrániť.

We are going to actually have to take them off."

Musíme ich amputovať."

And Ran decided to go into his tool shed

Ran sa rozhodol, že pôjde do svojej kôlne,

and take out a saw

zoberie pílu

and do it himself.

a urobí to sám.

And all I could think of was, if that happened to Ran after three minutes,

Myslel som len na to, že ak sa toto stalo Ranovi po troch minútach

and I can't feel my hands after five minutes,

a ja som si necítil ruky po piatich,

what on earth is going to happen if I try 20 minutes?

čo sa mi, preboha, stane po 20 minútach?

At the very best, I'm going to end up losing some fingers.

Prinajlepšom, prídem len o zopár prstov.

And at worst, I didn't even want to think about it.

Prinajhoršom, radšej som ani nechcel vedieť.

We carried on sailing through the ice packs towards the North Pole.

Pokračovali sme v plavbe pomedzi ľadové kryhy k Severnému pólu.

And my close friend David, he saw the way I was thinking,

Môj blízky priateľ David si všimol, že sa trápim,

and he came up to me and he said, "Lewis,

prišiel ku mne a povedal mi: "Lewis,

I've known you since you were 18 years old.

poznám ťa od tvojich osemnástich rokov.

I've known you, and I know, Lewis,

Poznám ťa a viem, Lewis,

deep down, right deep down here,

hlboko vo vnútri viem,

that you are going to make this swim.

že toto plávanie zvládneš.

I so believe in you Lewis. I've seen the way you've been training.

Verím v teba, Lewis. Videl som, ako tvrdo si trénoval

And I realize the reason why you're going to do this.

a viem, prečo to celé robíš.

This is such an important swim.

Je to veľmi dôležité plávanie.

We stand at a very, very important moment in this history,

Sme na pokraji historického momentu

and you're going to make a symbolic swim here

a ty zvládneš toto symbolické plávanie

to try to shake the lapels of world leaders.

a pokúsiš sa chytiť svetových lídrov za goliere a zatriasť nimi.

Lewis, have the courage to go in there,

Lewis, maj odvahu ísť do toho,

because we are going to look after you every moment of it."

pretože my na teba budeme po celý čas dávať pozor."

And I just, I got so much confidence from him saying that,

Veľmi ma to povzbudilo, keď mi to povedal,

because he knew me so well.

pretože ma naozaj dobre pozná.

So we carried on sailing and we arrived at the North Pole.

A tak sme pokračovali v plavbe, až sme dorazili k Severnému pólu.

And we stopped the ship,

Zastavili sme loď.

and it was just as the scientists had predicted.

Bolo to presne tak, ako predpovedali vedci.

There were open patches of sea everywhere.

Všade bolo vidno diery v ľade a v nich more.

And I went down into my cabin

Zišiel som do svojej kajuty

and I put on my swimming costume.

a obliekol som si plavecký oblek.

And then the doctor strapped on a chest monitor,

Doktor mi priviazal na hruď monitor

which measures my core body temperature

na meranie vnútornej teploty môjho tela

and my heart rate.

a pulzu.

And then we walked out onto the ice.

Potom sme vyšli na ľad.

And I remember looking into the ice,

Pamätám si, ako som sa pozeral na ľad.

and there were big chunks of white ice in there,

Všade naokolo boli obrovské kusy bieleho ľadu

and the water was completely black.

a voda bola úplne čierna.

I had never seen black water before.

Nikdy predtým som ešte čiernu vodu nevidel.

And it is 4,200 meters deep.

A je 4 200 metrov hlboká.

And I said to myself, "Lewis, don't look left, don't look right.

Povedal som si: "Lewis, nepozeraj sa doľava, ani doprava,

Just scuttle forward and go for it."

len choď rovno za svojím cieľom."

And so I now want to show you a short video

Teraz by som vám rád pustil jedno krátke video o tom,

of what happened there on the ice.

čo sa vtedy na ľade stalo.

Narrator (Video): We're just sailing out of harbor now, and it's at this stage

Rozprávač (video): Práve vyrážame z prístavu a je to ten moment,

when one can have a bit of a wobble mentally.

keď by sme mohli na chvíľu zaváhať.

Everything just looks so gray around here,

Všetko tu je také sivé

and looks so cold.

a studené.

We've just seen our first polar bears.

Práve sme videli prvých ľadových medveďov.

It was absolutely magical.

Bolo to magické.

A mother and a cub, such a beautiful sight.

Samica a mláďa, aký krásny pohľad.

And to think that in 30, 40 years

Keď si pomyslím, že za 30, 40 rokov

they could become extinct.

by už mohli patriť medzi vyhynuté druhy...

It's a very frightening, very, very frightening thought.

Je to veľmi, veľmi strašná predstava.

We're finally at the North Pole. This is

Konečne sme na Severnom póle. Toto sú

months and months and months of dreaming to get here,

mesiace a mesiace a mesiace snívania dostať sa sem,

years of training and planning and preparation.

roky trénovania, plánovania a prípravy.

Ooh. In a couple of hours' time I'm going to get in here and do my swim.

Och, za pár hodín zídem dolu a zaplávam si.

It's all a little bit frightening,

Celé je to trošku desivé

and emotional.

a emotívne.

Amundson, you ready? Amudson: Ready.

Amundson, si pripravený? Amudson: Pripravený.

Lewis Pugh: Ten seconds to swim. Ten seconds to swim.

Lewis Pugh: 10 sekúnd do plávania. 10 sekúnd do plávania.

Take the goggles off. Take the goggles off!

Daj mi dole okuliare. Daj mi dole okuliare!

Man: Take the shoes. Take the shoes.

Muž: Zober topánky. Zober topánky.

Well done lad! You did it! You did it Lewis!

Výborne, kamarát! Dokázal si to! Dokázal si to Lewis!

You did it! You did it man!

Dokázal si to! Dokázal, človeče!

LP: How on earth did we do that?

LP: Ako sme to, preboha, dokázali?

Man: Against the current! You did it against the current!

Muž: Proti prúdu! Dokázal si to proti prúdu!

(Applause)

(potlesk)

LP: Thank you very much. Thank you very much.

LP: Ďakujem, ďakujem vám.

(Applause)

(potlesk)

Thank you so much.

Veľmi pekne vám ďakujem.

Audience: Encore!

Publikum: Opakovať!

(Laughter)

(smiech)

LP: I'd just like to end off by just saying this:

LP: Rád by som to ukončil tým, že len dodám:

It took me four months again to feel my hands.

trvalo mi 4 mesiace, pokým som si znova cítil ruky.

But was it worth it? Yes, absolutely it was.

Ale, stálo to za to? Áno, jednoznačne áno.

There are very, very few people who don't know now

Teraz je len veľmi málo ľudí, ktorí ešte stále nevedia o tom,

about what is happening in the Arctic.

čo sa v Arktíde deje.

And people ask me, "Lewis, what can we do about climate change?"

Ľudia sa ma pýtajú: "Lewis, čo môžeme ohľadom klimatických zmien urobiť?"

And I say to them,

Moja odpoveď je,

I think we need to do three things.

že môžeme urobiť tri veci:

The first thing we need to do is we need to break this problem down

Po prvé, tento problém musíme rozdeliť na menšie,

into manageable chunks.

ľahšie zvládnuteľné časti.

You saw during that video all those flags.

Vo videu ste mohli vidieť všetky tie vlajky.

Those flags represented the countries

Tie predstavujú krajiny,

from which my team came from.

z ktorých pochádzal môj tím.

And equally, when it comes to climate change,

A rovnako, aj pri klimatických zmenách

every single country is going to have to make cuts.

sa musí do práce zapojiť svojou čiastkou každá krajina.

Britain, America, Japan,

Británia, Amerika, Japonsko,

South Africa, the Congo.

Južná Afrika, Kongo.

All of us together, we're all on the same ship together.

Všetci spolu, všetci sme na jednej lodi.

The second thing we need to do is

Po druhé, musíme sa,

we need to just look back

musíme sa pozrieť späť na to,

at how far we have come

ako ďaleko sme to nechali zájsť

in such a short period of time.

v takom krátkom období.

I remember, just a few years ago, speaking about climate change,

Pamätám si, pred pár rokmi, keď som hovoril o klimatických zmenách,

and people heckling me in the back

ľudia ma podpichovali

and saying it doesn't even exist.

a hovorili, že niečo také neexistuje.

I've just come back from giving a series of speeches

Práve som sa vrátil z vystúpení, ktoré som

in some of the poorest townships in South Africa

mal v najchudobnejších predmestiach Južnej Afriky,

to young children as young as 10 years old.

pre mladé deti, asi vo veku 10 rokov.

Four or five children sitting behind a desk,

4 či 5 detí sediacich za stolom,

and even in those poorest conditions,

aj v tých najchudobnejších podmienkach,

they all have a very, very good grasp

všetci mali veľké pochopenie

of climate change.

pre klimatické zmeny.

We need to believe in ourselves.

Musíme veriť v seba samých.

Now is the time to believe.

Teraz je ten čas, aby sme začali veriť.

We've come a long way. We're doing good.

Máme za sebou dlhú cestu. Ide nám to.

But the most important thing we must do

Ale najdôležitejšiou vecou, ktorú musíme urobiť, je,

is, I think, we must all walk to the end of our lives

myslím, musíme prísť na koniec našich životov

and turn around, and ask ourselves a most fundamental question.

a otočiť sa späť, spýtať sa samých seba tú najzákladnejšiu otázku.

And that is, "What type of world do we want to live in,

Tou je: "V akom svete chceme žiť

and what decision are we going to make today

a aké rozhodnutia pre to dnes spravíme,

to ensure that we all live

aby sme zabezpečili, že všetci žijeme

in a sustainable world?"

v dlhodobo udržateľnom svete?"

Ladies and gentlemen, thank you very, very much.

Vážené dámy, vážení páni, veľmi pekne vám ďakujem.

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