Name: ルイス・ピューが北極を泳ぐ (Lewis Pugh swims the North Pole)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T08:29:16.000Z
Duration: 20 min 54 s

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翻訳: Takako Sato 校正: SHIGERU MASUKAWA

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across the most northern place in the whole world.

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

それには亡き父なしには語れません

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

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

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

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

その光は あまりにも強烈だったため

And I know that watching that atomic bomb going off

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

父はかなりの影響を受けていました

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

and show me just how fragile the world is.

He also told me about the great explorers.

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

歴史好きの父は ロバート・スコットの

and Sir Edmund Hillary climbing up Mount Everest.

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

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.

北極には本当に行きたかったのです

And, well, sometimes it takes a long time

But seven years ago, I went to the Arctic

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

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

食べ物を探しに とても薄い氷の上を歩いている

ずいぶんと後退してしまった氷河の前で

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

北極の現況を 世界中に知らせたかったのです

And I wanted to really shake the lapels of world leaders

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

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,

急激に解けだしている世界の頂点で

意識を変えるための水泳をすることに決めました

And we need to do something about it right now.

打たなければならない というものでした

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

今朝の英国海峡の水温は18度でした

fell into water of just five degrees centigrade.

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.

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

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

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,

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

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

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

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.

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

１年間トレーニングを行い 準備ができました

So myself and the five members of the team,

私はチームメンバー５人と共に

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

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ルイス・ピューが北極を泳ぐ (Lewis Pugh swims the North Pole)

absolutely

period

applause

climate