Plunge into water at near-freezing temperatures, and your body goes into extreme distress. Your skin screams signals of pain. You can't breathe, because your chest is cramping up. Talking is nearly ...

In just a few short months, organizers of an ice swimming competition pulled together an event that brought together a hundred swimmers from all over the world. They competed on Saturday in an ...

The United States’ hopes for extending its long Olympic medal streak in the men’s 200-meter backstroke rest on the shoulders of an ice swimmer. Keaton Jones, a 19-year-old Olympic rookie, is the last ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A frigid swim is set to take place at Tony Schmidt Regional Park in Arden Hills this weekend. The inaugural MN Ice Swim, a ...

Extreme, yes, but Koeck, 37, of St. Paul, had more in mind than a dunk in an ice hole. Her dive into the audacious was an attempt at an event called the Ice Mile. It’s part of the unusual sport of ice ...

Kate Steels, 53, shares the powerful, heartbreaking reason she faces the cold. My two childhood dreams were to swim the English channel and travel to Antarctica, so my love for ice swimming makes ...

Ice swimming is the fastest growing extreme aquatic sport. Tens of thousands of swimmers now hit the cold water daily and before the COVID restrictions, thousands traveled to events from Siberia to ...

Claire Bustin, Michelle Leach, Amy Mellor and Adam Boon (left to right) have been competing in Finland, supported by Adam's son (rear) Four ice swimmers from Northamptonshire are competing for the ...

There is nothing intuitive about stripping down to a swimsuit in sub-zero temperatures, but it’s an essential part of ice swimming. With no shortage of courage and a strong devotion to wellness, ice ...

BUTLER, Tenn. (WJHL) — Donald Winters probably broke a world record Tuesday, but the 66-year-old went through several minutes of agony in the process. “The first, oh, three-fourths of it went real ...

Jeff Rubin of Madison once swam in Antarctica. He was a tour guide on a ship with a Russian doctor who swam regularly so Rubin joined him one day. The water temperature was 29 degrees. “It’s not ...