Category: Winter Swimming

Ahtari, a Finnish city with only around 6,000 residents, became lively as thousands of ice swimming enthusiasts gathered for the annual national championship recently. Watch this video on YouTube

The annual Polar Bear Swim in Vernon proved to be a success. Watch this video on YouTube

We can become a like a superconductor to our experiences. Without resistance there is no pain and we start to live in the flow, enjoying everything that life brings our way. Watch this video on YouTube

Sport for bravehearts! Swimmers take a dip in bone-chilling waters as temperature drops to 30 degrees Celsius below zero in NE China’s winter swimming base. Could you handle it? Watch this video on YouTube

An experienced open and wild swimmer has been filmed breaking ice on the surface of a Highlands loch. Norman Todd, 45, managed about 10 minutes in Loch Glascarnoch near Garve in Wester Ross on Saturday. The loch frequently has some the lowest temperatures in winter. The offshore worker, from Ullapool, is training to take part…

Czech swimmers took to the cold waters of the Vltava river which runs through Prague on Saturday to mark the Christian holiday of Epiphany. Watch this video on YouTube

Several thousand people plunged into the North Sea in Scheveningen, a seaside resort in The Hague, the Netherlands, to celebrate the New Year. Watch this video on YouTube

Cody has some interesting stories in Two Minutes of Mayhem! Watch this video on YouTube