"The swim at Deception Island was by far……" — Lewis Gordon
"The swim at Deception Island was by far the hardest swim I've ever done. Antarctica is a very unforgiving environment. If you don't train properly, you'll die."
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12 Quotes by Lewis Gordon
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Ultimately I wanted to be a pioneer swimmer, a distant descendant of Scott, Amundsen and Hillary, except that I would…
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Going against the tide has never been difficult for me. It wasn't even a conscious decision but the natural consequence…
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If we pass on an unsustainable environment to our children we have failed them.
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If you want to swim across the English Channel from England to France - you have to leave your doubt…
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The right to have our environment protected for the benefit of present and future generations is our most important human…
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There is nothing more powerful than the made up mind.
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When I'm preparing for a swim, I imagine absolutely everything about it: the color of the water, how cold it…
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The days of exploration of Shackleton and Scott are long gone. Everything has been climbed, crossed, done. Now what we're…
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Of all the creatures in the world that really frighten me - the hyena in Africa, the great white shark…
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We need to save the Arctic not because of the polar bears, and not because it is the most beautiful…
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When I was born, the world's population was 3.5 billion. There are now 6.8 billion people on the planet. By…
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More Antarctica Quotes
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...Was it because a lot of the heat went into melting Arctic sea ice or parts of Greenland and Antarctica,…
— Kevin E. Trenberth
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First you fall in love with Antarctica, and then it breaks your heart.
— Kim Stanley
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Consider this: I can go to Antarctica and get cash from an ATM without a glitch, but should I fall…
— Nathan Deal
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Some 3 million years ago, when the earth was a little more than 3°C warmer than preindustrial levels (about 2.2°C…
— Joseph J. Romm
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Antarctica has this mythic weight. It resides in the collective unconscious of so many people, and it makes this huge…
— Jon Krakauer
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More people should visit Antarctica, metaphorically speaking, on their own. That is one of the conclusions I have reached, one…
— Phyllis Rose
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I should kill myself. Things would be better if I did. For me anyway. I don’t know how it would…
— Noah Cicero
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[In Adelie Land, Antarctica, a howling river of] wind, 50 miles wide, blows off the plateau, month in and month…
— Frank Debenham
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If Antarctica were music it would be Mozart. Art, and it would be Michelangelo. Literature, and it would be Shakespeare.…
— Andrew Denton
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For years, I never knowingly went on a holiday. When I travelled, it was for work. Now I am a…
— Miranda Richardson
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I think part of the appeal of Antarctica is experiencing some sort of power, the forces of the natural world.
— Jon Krakauer
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Antarctica is a very alien environment, and you can't survive here more than minutes if you're not equipped properly and…
— Jon Krakauer
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