swimming across the North Pole,

今日 お話ししたいのは

across the most northern place in the whole world.

世界で最も北に位置する

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

北極を泳いだ話です

He was a great storyteller.

それには亡き父なしには語れません

He could tell a story about an event,

父は話が上手で

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

まるで聞き手がその場にいるかのように

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

話を伝えることが出来る人でした

was of the first British atomic bomb test.

私が幼かったときに よくしてくれた話に

He had been there and watched it go off.

英国初の核実験の話がありました

And he said that the explosion was so loud

父はその場にいて 爆発の瞬間を目撃しました

and the light was so intense,

巨大な爆音と 目を射るような

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

閃光が現れ

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

目を守るために 手で覆わなくてはいけなかったそうです

of his fingers,

その光は あまりにも強烈だったため

because the light was so bright.

指がレントゲン写真のように

And I know that watching that atomic bomb going off

見えたと言っていました

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

原子爆弾の爆発をじかに見たことで

Every holiday I had as a young boy

父はかなりの影響を受けていました

was in a national park.

休暇と言えば 子どもだった私を

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

国立公園に連れて行ってくれました

to protect the world,

世界を守る大切さや

and show me just how fragile the world is.

地球の脆さを

He also told me about the great explorers.

教えようとしてくれたのです

He loved history. He would tell me about Captain Scott

偉大な探検家の話もしてくれました

walking all the way to the South Pole

歴史好きの父は ロバート・スコットの

and Sir Edmund Hillary climbing up Mount Everest.

南極点到達の話や

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

エドモンド・ヒラリーのエベレスト登頂の話もしてくれました

I dreamed of going to the polar regions.

ですから 私は６歳の頃から極圏に行く

I really, really wanted to go to the Arctic.

夢がありました

There was something about that place

北極には本当に行きたかったのです

which drew me to it.

何か惹かれるものが

And, well, sometimes it takes a long time

北極にはありました

for a dream to come true.

時として 夢が実現するには

But seven years ago, I went to the Arctic

時間がかかることがあります

for the first time.

でも ７年前に北極に初めて

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

行くことができました

ever since, for the last seven years.

あまりの美しさに 過去７年間

I love the place.

北極に行き続けています

But I have seen that place change

大好きな場所です

beyond all description,

でも ７年という短い間に

just in that short period of time.

北極は言い表せないほど

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

変わってしまいました

in search of food.

食べ物を探しに とても薄い氷の上を歩いている

I have swum in front of glaciers

白クマを見たことがあります

which have retreated so much.

ずいぶんと後退してしまった氷河の前で

And I have also, every year,

泳いだこともあります

seen less and less sea ice.

毎年 北極に行くたびに

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

海氷が少なくなっているのも確かです

In the two years before my swim,

北極の現況を 世界中に知らせたかったのです

23 percent of the arctic sea ice cover

北極で泳ぐ前の２年間に

just melted away.

北極海の氷は23%も

And I wanted to really shake the lapels of world leaders

解けてしまいました

to get them to understand what is happening.

世界の指導者たちには 何が起きているのか

So I decided to do this symbolic swim

本当に理解してほしかったのです

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

それで 凍っているはずなのに

but which now is rapidly unfreezing.

急激に解けだしている世界の頂点で

And the message was very clear:

意識を変えるための水泳をすることに決めました

Climate change is for real,

メッセージは 気候変動は

and we need to do something about it.

実際に起きているので

And we need to do something about it right now.

今すぐに 手だてを

Well, swimming across the North Pole,

打たなければならない というものでした

it's not an ordinary thing to do.

北極を泳ぐなんて

I mean, just to put it in perspective,

普通であればしないことです

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

比較すると分かりやすいと思いますが

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

普通の屋内プールの水温は27度です

The passengers who fell off the Titanic

今朝の英国海峡の水温は18度でした

fell into water of just five degrees centigrade.

タイタニックの乗船客は

Fresh water freezes at zero.

水温わずか５度の海水に投げ出されました

And the water at the North Pole is minus 1.7.

真水の氷点は０度です

It's fucking freezing.

北極の水温は マイナス1.7度

(Laughter)

クソ冷たいんですよ

(Applause)

（会場： 笑い声）

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

（拍手）

(Laughter)

失礼　でも他に言いようがないのです

And so I had to assemble an incredible team around me

（会場： 笑い声）

to help me with this task.

この計画の実行には協力してくれるチームを

I assembled this team of 29 people from 10 nations.

組まなくてはいけませんでした

Some people think that swimming is a very solo sport,

10ヶ国から集まった29人からなるチームを編成しました

you just dive into the sea and off you go.

水泳は海に飛びこんで泳ぎだすだけの

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

個人競技だと思われる事があります

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

私の場合は まったく逆でした

swimming in icy water, backwards and forwards.

トレーニングには かなりの時間を費やしました

But the most important thing was to train my mind

氷のような水の中で 何往復も泳ぎましたが

to prepare myself for what was going to happen.

最も重要だったのは 何が起きてもいいように

And I had to visualize the swim.

心を鍛えることでした

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

イメージトレーニングもしました

I had to taste the salt water in my mouth.

泳ぎ始めてから泳ぎきるまでを想像し

I had to see my coach screaming for me,

口に入る海水の味や

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

コーチが叫ぶ

And so I literally swam across the North Pole

“進め！スピードを落とすな！” という声を想像しました

hundreds and hundreds of times in my mind.

ですから頭の中では何百回も

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

北極を泳いでいたのです

I felt confident that I could actually

１年間トレーニングを行い 準備ができました

do this swim.

泳ぎ切れるだけの

So myself and the five members of the team,

自信がありました

we hitched a ride on an icebreaker

私はチームメンバー５人と共に

which was going to the North Pole.

北極に向かう砕氷船に

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

乗せてもらいました

five minute test swim.

４日目に ５分間だけ試験的に

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

泳いでみることにしました

because it's just impossible to train

それまでマイナス1.7度の水の中で泳いだことはありませんでした

in those types of conditions.

そのような状況を訓練で再現するのは

So we stopped the ship, as you do.

現実的に不可能だからです

We all got down onto the ice,

まずは船を止めました

and I then got into my swimming costume

氷の上に出て

and I dived into the sea.

水泳着を身につけ

I have never in my life felt anything

海へと飛び込みました

like that moment.

それまでに感じたことがない

I could barely breathe. I was gasping for air.

感覚がしました

I was hyperventilating so much,

息ができず あえぎました

and within seconds my hands were numb.

過呼吸になったため すぐに手の感覚を

And it was -- the paradox is

失ってしまいました

that you're in freezing cold water,

不思議なのは

but actually you're on fire.

凍えるほど冷たい水なのに

I swam as hard as I could for five minutes.

火がついている感覚です

I remember just trying to get out of the water.

５分間は懸命に泳ぎました

I climbed out of the ice.

水から出て

And I remember taking the goggles off my face

氷から這い上がりました

and looking down at my hands in sheer shock,

ゴーグルを外して 手をみたときは

because my fingers

ショックを受けました

had swollen so much that they were like sausages.

指が腫れあがり

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

ソーセージのようだったのです

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

腫れがひどくて 手を握りしめることができませんでした

and when water freezes it expands.

人間の体は水分を多く含んでいるので

And so what had actually happened is

水が凍ると 膨張します

that the cells in my fingers had frozen and expanded.

そのために 指の中の細胞が

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

凍ってしまって 膨張していたのでした

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

さらに破裂したため 酷い痛みでした

And I remember standing underneath the hot shower

急いで船に戻り 温かいシャワーを浴びました

and trying to defrost my fingers.

流れ出るお湯の下に立って

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

指を解凍しようとしていたことを覚えています

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

そして ２日後には北極で泳ぐんだ と考えていました

for one kilometer across the North Pole.

北極海の１kmを20分で

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

泳ぐ予定でした

with my father, was just going out the window.

子どもの頃から父と共に抱いていた夢は

There is no possibility that this was going to happen.

消えてしまいそうでした

And I remember then getting out of the shower

北極を泳ぎきる可能性はゼロでした

and realizing I couldn't even feel my hands.

シャワーから出たとき

And for a swimmer, you need to feel your hands

指の感覚がないことに気づきました

because you need to be able to grab the water

水泳には手の感覚が必要です

and pull it through with you.

水をつかむようにしながら 自分に引き寄せて

The next morning, I woke up

泳ぐからです

and I was in such a state of depression,

翌朝 目を覚ましたとき

and all I could think about was Sir Ranulph Fiennes.

気分が沈んで 頭に浮かぶのは

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

ラノフ・ファインズのことばかりでした

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

彼はイギリスの冒険家で

He accidentally fell through the ice into the sea.

何年もかけて スキーで北極点までの到達を試みました

And after just three minutes in that water,

彼は誤って氷の間から海へと落ちてしまいました

he was able

水中には わずか３分間でしたが

to get himself out.

たったの３分という間に

And his hands were so badly frostbitten

自力で這い上がることはできたものの

that he had to return to England.

指はひどい凍傷になり

He went to a local hospital and there they said,

イギリスへ戻らざるを得ませんでした

"Ran, there is no possibility

地元の病院へ行くと

of us being able to save these fingers.

指を救う可能性はないので

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

切断しなくてはいけないと

And Ran decided to go into his tool shed

言われたそうです

and take out a saw

彼は自分の工具小屋へ行き

and do it himself.

ノコギリを取り出し

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

自分で切断しようと決めたのでした

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

３分で彼がそのようなことになったのなら

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

私の指の感覚は５分後に戻ったけれど

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

20分も泳いだら どんなことが起きるのだろう と思っていました

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

絶対に指を何本か失うだろうと思い

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

最悪の場合は考えることすらしたくありませんでした

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

私たちは北極に向かって 浮氷の中を航行しました

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

親友のデイビッドが 考え込んでいる私のところに

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

やって来て言いました

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

“お前のことは18歳の時から知っている

deep down, right deep down here,

知っているからこそ

that you are going to make this swim.

心の奥底でわかるんだ

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

これが成功するってね

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

今までの訓練も見てきたし

This is such an important swim.

この挑戦をする理由だってわかってる

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

この水泳は とても重要な意味をもっていて

and you're going to make a symbolic swim here

今は歴史上 非常に肝心なときだ

to try to shake the lapels of world leaders.

お前はその象徴的な水泳をして 世界の指導者たちを

Lewis, have the courage to go in there,

気づかせようとしている

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

ずっと見守っているから

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

水の中に飛び込む勇気を持つんだぞ”

because he knew me so well.

私のことを よく知っている親友にそう言われて

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

たくさんの勇気をもらいました

And we stopped the ship,

航行し続け 北極に到着したので

and it was just as the scientists had predicted.

船を止めました

There were open patches of sea everywhere.

科学者たちが予測していたとおり

And I went down into my cabin

氷が解けて海面が見えている部分がたくさんありました

and I put on my swimming costume.

船室に戻り

And then the doctor strapped on a chest monitor,

水泳着を身につけました

which measures my core body temperature

深部体温と心拍数を

and my heart rate.

測るために

And then we walked out onto the ice.

胸部モニターがつけられました

And I remember looking into the ice,

氷の上へと歩いて行きました

and there were big chunks of white ice in there,

氷の奥をみたとき

and the water was completely black.

白くて大きな氷の塊があって

I had never seen black water before.

水が真っ黒だったのを覚えています

And it is 4,200 meters deep.

あんな黒い水を見たのは初めてでした

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

水深は4,200メートルです

Just scuttle forward and go for it."

右も左も見ずに とにかく前進するんだ と

And so I now want to show you a short video

自分に言い聞かせました

of what happened there on the ice.

短いのですが

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

そのときのビデオを紹介します

when one can have a bit of a wobble mentally.

港を出たところです

Everything just looks so gray around here,

動揺を感じるのは この段階ですね

and looks so cold.

ここはどこを見渡してもグレーの世界で

We've just seen our first polar bears.

とても冷たい感じがします

It was absolutely magical.

白クマを見かけました

A mother and a cub, such a beautiful sight.

とても神秘的です

And to think that in 30, 40 years

親子ですね　感動する光景です

they could become extinct.

30年か40年後には

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

絶滅する可能性があると思うと

We're finally at the North Pole. This is

非常に恐ろしいです

months and months and months of dreaming to get here,

やっと北極に着きました

years of training and planning and preparation.

どれだけ夢に見てきたことでしょう

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

何年もの訓練と計画と準備をしてきたのです

It's all a little bit frightening,

あと数時間後には 泳いでいるんですね

and emotional.

ちょっと心配でもあり

Amundson, you ready? Amudson: Ready.

胸が一杯にもなっています

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

準備はいいかな

Take the goggles off. Take the goggles off!

入水まで あと10秒

Man: Take the shoes. Take the shoes.

ゴーグルを取ってくれ

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

靴を取って

You did it! You did it man!

ルイス よくやった！

LP: How on earth did we do that?

やり遂げたんだぞ！

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

信じられないな

(Applause)

海流に立ち向かって やり遂げたんだ！

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

（拍手）

(Applause)

どうもありがとう

Thank you so much.

（拍手）

Audience: Encore!

どうもありがとう

(Laughter)

アンコール！

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

（会場： 笑い声）

It took me four months again to feel my hands.

最後に一言

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

手の感覚を取り戻すのに ４ヶ月かかりました

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

でも それだけの価値はありました

about what is happening in the Arctic.

北極で何が起きているのか知っている人は

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

本当にわずかです

And I say to them,

気候変動に対し何が出来るのか

I think we need to do three things.

尋ねられることがあります

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

私たちにできることは ３つあって

into manageable chunks.

１つは この問題を扱いやすいレベルまで

You saw during that video all those flags.

分解することです

Those flags represented the countries

ビデオで いろんな国旗が見えたように

from which my team came from.

あのたくさんの旗は チームの仲間の国を

And equally, when it comes to climate change,

表わしたものです

every single country is going to have to make