Lewis Pugh swims the North Pole

翻译人员: An Li 校对人员: Zachary Lin Zhao

Today I want to talk to you about

我今天要给你们讲讲

swimming across the North Pole,

我游过北极，

across the most northern place in the whole world.

游过世界最北端的故事。

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

我最好从我已经过世的父亲说起。

He was a great storyteller.

我的父亲很会讲故事。

He could tell a story about an event,

他会把一件事讲得

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

让你觉得完全是身临其境。

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

我小时候，他常常给我讲的一个故事是

was of the first British atomic bomb test.

在英国进行的第一次原子弹爆炸试验。

He had been there and watched it go off.

他在现场亲眼看着它引爆。

And he said that the explosion was so loud

他说，当时爆炸声之响，

and the light was so intense,

光线之强，

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

使他不得不把手蒙在脸上去保护他的眼睛。

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

他还说他甚至看到了他手指的

of his fingers,

x光影像，

because the light was so bright.

因为光线实在是太强了。

And I know that watching that atomic bomb going off

我知道那次原子弹试爆的经历

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

留给我过世的父亲非常巨大的影响。

Every holiday I had as a young boy

我小时候的每个假期，

was in a national park.

都是在国家公园度过。

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

他这样做是为了要激励我

to protect the world,

去保护这个世界，

and show me just how fragile the world is.

也让我看到这个世界是多么的脆弱。

He also told me about the great explorers.

他也给我讲那些伟大的探险家的故事。

He loved history. He would tell me about Captain Scott

他热爱历史。他会给我讲斯科特船长怎样

walking all the way to the South Pole

徒步征服南极，

and Sir Edmund Hillary climbing up Mount Everest.

埃德蒙 希拉里 爵士怎样登上珠穆朗玛峰。

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

所以自打我六岁起，

I dreamed of going to the polar regions.

就梦想着到极地去探险。

I really, really wanted to go to the Arctic.

我想去得不得了，

There was something about that place

就好像那里有一种魔力

which drew me to it.

在吸引着我一样。

And, well, sometimes it takes a long time

可是，有时候你要等好多年

for a dream to come true.

才能梦想成真。

But seven years ago, I went to the Arctic

我终于在七年前第一次

for the first time.

到了北极圈。

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

那里实在是太美了，让我从那以后的七年，每年都会

ever since, for the last seven years.

再到那里看看。

I love the place.

我深爱那里，

But I have seen that place change

但是我也亲眼目睹了在那里发生的

beyond all description,

无法形容的变化，

just in that short period of time.

居然就在那么短的时间内。

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

我看见北极熊跋涉在薄薄的冰面上，

in search of food.

寻找食物。

I have swum in front of glaciers

我曾经面对着极度消退的

which have retreated so much.

冰川游泳，

And I have also, every year,

我也亲眼目睹海洋上的浮冰在

seen less and less sea ice.

一年一年地减少。

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

我想让世界都知道在那里发生的一切。

In the two years before my swim,

在我游北极之前的两年内，

23 percent of the arctic sea ice cover

就有百分之二十三的极地冰盖

just melted away.

溶化掉了。

And I wanted to really shake the lapels of world leaders

我真想揪着那些世界领袖的领子，

to get them to understand what is happening.

让他们搞清楚到底发生的是什么。

So I decided to do this symbolic swim

所以我下决心要进行这次象征性的游泳，

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

在世界之巅，在一个本该冰封，

but which now is rapidly unfreezing.

不幸却在快速解冻的地方。

And the message was very clear:

我的信息很清楚：

Climate change is for real,

气候变化是真的，

and we need to do something about it.

我们需要行动起来。

And we need to do something about it right now.

而且我们需要马上行动。

Well, swimming across the North Pole,

当然，游泳穿过北极

it's not an ordinary thing to do.

并不是一件普通的事。

I mean, just to put it in perspective,

我想让大家比较一下，

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

普通室内游泳池的水温是27摄氏度，

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

今天早晨，英吉利海峡的水温是18摄氏度，

The passengers who fell off the Titanic

泰坦尼克号上掉下来的乘客

fell into water of just five degrees centigrade.

掉到海里，当时的水温只有5摄氏度。

Fresh water freezes at zero.

淡水是在零度结冰。

And the water at the North Pole is minus 1.7.

而在北极，水温只有负的1.7度。

It's fucking freezing.

那是真他妈的冷啊。

(Laughter)

（众笑）

(Applause)

（掌声）

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

对不起，我只能那么说。

(Laughter)

（众笑）

And so I had to assemble an incredible team around me

所以我必须组建一个强大的团队

to help me with this task.

来帮助我完成这次挑战。

I assembled this team of 29 people from 10 nations.

我组建了一个由来自10个国家，29人的团队。

Some people think that swimming is a very solo sport,

有人以为游泳完全是个人运动项目，

you just dive into the sea and off you go.

你只要跳进海里游就好了。

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

其实完全不是这样。

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

接下来我开始进行大运动量的训练。

swimming in icy water, backwards and forwards.

在冰水里来回地游。

But the most important thing was to train my mind

但是训练的关键是做好心理准备，

to prepare myself for what was going to happen.

来面对将要来临的挑战。

And I had to visualize the swim.

我必须在脑海里想象我在游泳，

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

我必须从头想象到尾。

I had to taste the salt water in my mouth.

我要尝到我嘴里海水的咸味

I had to see my coach screaming for me,

我要看到我的教练向我大喊，

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

“路易斯加油！加油！快！快！快！不要慢下来！”

And so I literally swam across the North Pole

所以我实际上已经在我的脑海里

hundreds and hundreds of times in my mind.

游过北极成百上千次了。

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

经过了一年的训练，我觉得我准备好了

I felt confident that I could actually

我自信能够完成

do this swim.

这次游泳。

So myself and the five members of the team,

所以我和五名队员一起

we hitched a ride on an icebreaker

搭乘了一艘破冰船，

which was going to the North Pole.

向北极进发。

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

第四天，我们决定试试水，

five minute test swim.

很短， 就游五分钟。

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

我还从来没有在负的零下1.7度的水里游过泳，

because it's just impossible to train

因为不可能在那样的条件下

in those types of conditions.

进行训练。

So we stopped the ship, as you do.

我们把船停下来，

We all got down onto the ice,

大家都走到冰面上，

and I then got into my swimming costume

然后我穿上游泳裤，

and I dived into the sea.

就跳进了海里。

I have never in my life felt anything

那一刹那的感觉，

like that moment.

是我一辈子从来没有过的。

I could barely breathe. I was gasping for air.

当时我简直无法呼吸，我大口大口地喘着气，

I was hyperventilating so much,

但是很快就喘不过气来，

and within seconds my hands were numb.

仅仅几秒钟之内，我的双手就麻木了。

And it was -- the paradox is

可奇怪的是，

that you're in freezing cold water,

你人在冰冷的水里，

but actually you're on fire.

可是感觉像是浑身着火了一样。

I swam as hard as I could for five minutes.

我竭尽全力游了五分钟。

I remember just trying to get out of the water.

我只记得想尽快从水里起来。

I climbed out of the ice.

我爬到冰面上，

And I remember taking the goggles off my face

然后我记得当我把眼镜摘下来，

and looking down at my hands in sheer shock,

看着我的双手的时候，我惊呆了。

because my fingers

因为我的手指

had swollen so much that they were like sausages.

都肿得非常厉害，像香肠一样。

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

它们肿得太厉害，我的手都合不拢。

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

当时的情况是因为，人体的主要成分是水，

and when water freezes it expands.

而水结冰时就会膨胀。

And so what had actually happened is

所以当时实际上

that the cells in my fingers had frozen and expanded.

我手指上的细胞已经结冰膨胀，

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

并且它们已经胀裂了。当时我是疼痛万分

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

他们马上把我送上船，让我冲个热水澡。

And I remember standing underneath the hot shower

我忘不了当时站在喷头下，

and trying to defrost my fingers.

试着解冻我的手指时的情景。

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

当时我想，还有两天我就要完成穿越北极的游泳了，

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

我想要尽力去完成20分钟的游泳，

for one kilometer across the North Pole.

用一公里横跨北极。

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

这可是我小时候和爸爸在一起时就渴望实现的梦想啊，

with my father, was just going out the window.

现在却要前功尽弃了。

There is no possibility that this was going to happen.

我怎么可能接着游下去呢？

And I remember then getting out of the shower

我还记得冲完澡后，

and realizing I couldn't even feel my hands.

发觉我的双手完全失去了知觉。

And for a swimmer, you need to feel your hands

而身为游泳选手，你的手必须要有知觉，

because you need to be able to grab the water

因为你要能够抓住水

and pull it through with you.

再把身体往前推。

The next morning, I woke up

第二天早晨，我醒了

and I was in such a state of depression,

完全被淹没在沮丧之中。

and all I could think about was Sir Ranulph Fiennes.

满脑子想的都是Ranulph Fiennes 爵士。

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

如果你不知道他是谁的话，他是一位伟大的英国探险家。

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

几年前，他试图一路滑雪征服北极。

He accidentally fell through the ice into the sea.

他不慎顺着冰缝跌入海里

And after just three minutes in that water,

仅仅在水里待了三分钟，

he was able

仅仅在水里待了三分钟，

to get himself out.

他终于自己爬了出来

And his hands were so badly frostbitten

但是他的手已经被严重冻伤了

that he had to return to England.

使他不得不返回英国。

He went to a local hospital and there they said,

他到一家当地的医院，在那里，医生对他说，

"Ran, there is no possibility

“Ran, 我们不可能保住

of us being able to save these fingers.

你的手指了，

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

我们只能把它们截肢。”

And Ran decided to go into his tool shed

听到这话，Ran毅然到他的工具棚里

and take out a saw

拿出一把锯子

and do it himself.

自己亲手把他的手指锯下来。

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

当时我满脑子里想的都是，如果Ran在冰水里只待了三分钟就那样的话，

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

而我在五分钟后手就失去知觉，

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

那么如果我要游二十分钟，又到底会发生怎样的情况呢？

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

就是最好的打算我都会丢掉几根手指头。

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

而最坏的打算，我都不敢再想下去。

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

我们的船又继续破冰向北极航行

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

我的好友大卫看出了我的心思，

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

就过来对我说，“路易斯，

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

从你18岁起我就认识你了。

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

我很了解你，所以我知道，路易斯，

deep down, right deep down here,

你内心深处，在你的心底，

that you are going to make this swim.

你一定是会去游的

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

我对你完全有信心，路易斯。我看着你一直地在努力训练

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

也明白你要这样做的原因。

This is such an important swim.

这次游泳确实是重要非凡，

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

因为我们正站在历史的关键时刻。

and you're going to make a symbolic swim here

而你在这里要用这次象征性的游泳，

to try to shake the lapels of world leaders.

来让世界各国的领袖们觉醒。

Lewis, have the courage to go in there,

路易斯，你放胆去吧，

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

我们会眼睛都不眨一下地保护你的。”

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

他的一番话又让我鼓起了勇气，

because he knew me so well.

因为他太了解我了。

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

于是我们继续航行，最后抵达了北极。

And we stopped the ship,

我们把船停下，

and it was just as the scientists had predicted.

举目四望， 正如科学家预测的一样，

There were open patches of sea everywhere.

到处都是裸露的海面。

And I went down into my cabin

我走进我的船舱，

and I put on my swimming costume.

穿上游泳裤，

And then the doctor strapped on a chest monitor,

然后医生给我系上一个胸部监测仪，

which measures my core body temperature

来测量我的核心体温

and my heart rate.

和心率。

And then we walked out onto the ice.

然后我们走到了冰面上。

And I remember looking into the ice,

我记得往冰水里看时，

and there were big chunks of white ice in there,

里面有大块大块的白色的冰块，

and the water was completely black.

而海水却是完全是黑的

I had never seen black water before.

我还从来没有见过黑色的海水

And it is 4,200 meters deep.

而且它深达4200 米。

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

我对自己说：“路易斯，不要向左看，不要向右看，

Just scuttle forward and go for it."

要一直往前冲。”

And so I now want to show you a short video

我现在就要给大家播放一段

of what happened there on the ice.

当时冰上的录像。

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

录像：我们的船刚刚离开港湾， 也就是在此时

when one can have a bit of a wobble mentally.

心头会涌起一丝犹疑。

Everything just looks so gray around here,

环顾四周，尽都灰蒙蒙的

and looks so cold.

让人心生寒意。

We've just seen our first polar bears.

刚才我们看到了行程中的第一对北极熊，

It was absolutely magical.

那感觉真是非常奇妙。

A mother and a cub, such a beautiful sight.

熊妈妈和她的幼崽，好美的景象。

And to think that in 30, 40 years

但是想到在30，40年后

they could become extinct.

它们就可能灭绝，

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

是一个非常可怕，让人不寒而栗的事。

We're finally at the North Pole. This is

我们终于到达了北极点。

months and months and months of dreaming to get here,

这一刻，凝聚了我经年累月的梦想，

years of training and planning and preparation.

训练，计划和准备。

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

哦，大概还有两个小时我就要跳下去游泳了。

It's all a little bit frightening,

我是有一点点害怕

and emotional.

和激动。

Amundson, you ready? Amudson: Ready.

Amundson，你好了吗？

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

还有十秒钟，还有十秒钟。

Take the goggles off. Take the goggles off!

把游泳镜取下来，把游泳镜取下来！

Man: Take the shoes. Take the shoes.

旁：把鞋拿上，把鞋拿上。

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

干得好，小伙子！你成功了！路易斯你成功了！

You did it! You did it man!

你成功了！你成功了伙计！

LP: How on earth did we do that?

路易斯 皮尤：我们怎么可能就做到了?

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

旁：逆水！你是逆水游完的！

(Applause)

（掌声）

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

路易斯 皮尤:非常感谢。非常感谢。

(Applause)

（掌声）

Thank you so much.

非常感谢

Audience: Encore!

听众：再来一次！

(Laughter)

（众笑）

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

路易斯 皮尤：我想用以下的话作为结束，

It took me four months again to feel my hands.

我的手花了四个月才恢复了知觉。

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

但这样值得吗？值得，绝对值得。

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

现在只有极少数的人不知道

about what is happening in the Arctic.

北极发生的情况。

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

而且人们问我：“路易斯，我们能为气候变化做些什么呢？”

And I say to them,

我就对他们说

I think we need to do three things.

我想我们需要做三件事。

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

第一件事是我们需要把这个问题分解成为

into manageable chunks.

容易解决的小问题。

You saw during that video all those flags.

在录像里，你们看见了很多的旗帜。

Those flags represented the countries

那些旗帜代表了我的队员

from which my team came from.

所在的国家。

And equally, when it comes to climate change,

同样地，对于气候变化，

every single country is going to have to make cuts.

每一个国家都必须减少排放。

Britain, America, Japan,

英国，美国，日本，

South Africa, the Congo.

南非，刚果。

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

我们所有的人都要同舟共济。

The second thing we need to do is

我们要做的第二件事是

we need to just look back

我们只需要回顾

at how far we have come

我们在这么短的时间内

in such a short period of time.

所取得的进步。

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

我还记得仅仅是在几年前，当我讲到气候变化的时候，

and people heckling me in the back

还有人在后面质问我

and saying it doesn't even exist.

说那是无稽之谈。

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

我刚刚从一个系列演讲回来，

in some of the poorest townships in South Africa

在南非最穷的一些小镇，

to young children as young as 10 years old.

讲给小到十岁的儿童们听。

Four or five children sitting behind a desk,

他们四五个人挤着坐在一张桌子后面，

and even in those poorest conditions,

就是在那样贫穷的条件下，

they all have a very, very good grasp

他们都清楚地知道

of climate change.

气候变化的概念。

We need to believe in ourselves.

我们需要相信我们自己。

Now is the time to believe.

而现在就是相信的时候。

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

我们有了很大的进步。我们做得不错。

But the most important thing we must do

但是最重要的事情是

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

我认为，我们必须要能够在我们生命的尽头，

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

转过身来，问我们自己一个最根本的问题。

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

那就是：“我们想生活在怎样的一个世界，

and what decision are we going to make today

而且我们今天应该做怎样的决定，

to ensure that we all live

才能保证我们都住在

in a sustainable world?"

一个可持续发展的世界？”

Ladies and gentlemen, thank you very, very much.

女士们先生们，谢谢。

(Applause)

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