Original artwork, not a still
There’s nothing more chilling than swimming across open sea, where recently there used to be a solid glacier.
— Address to the House of Lords (19 November 2010)
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
Swimming through water where ice used to stand is a startling thing, and the speaker calls it chilling. The cold does double duty: the chill of the sea and the unease of a glacier gone. Lewis Gordon Pugh is describing what that sight felt like.
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