Why a 53-year-old Englishman spent a month swimming from upstate New York to the tip of Manhattan

Why a 53-year-old Englishman spent a month swimming from upstate New York to the tip of Manhattan

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The Hudson River snakes through forests and rushes over boulders in the Adirondack Mountains before settling into a wide, slow flow closer to New York City. It stretches 315 miles (507 kilometers) from source to end. Lewis Pugh finished swimming all of it on Wednesday morning. The 53-year-old…

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