A frigid swim is set to take place at Tony Schmidt Regional Park in Arden Hills this weekend. The inaugural MN Ice Swim, a competitive race through a "pool" cut into the ice of Lake Johanna, will take ...

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 ...

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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 ...

HARBIN, China — Even as the mercury dropped well below freezing, enthusiasm soared among about a dozen hardy swimmers during a daily ritual in northeast China’s “ice city” of Harbin. The swimmers ...

NEWPORT, Vt. — Plunging into a frozen lake and swimming laps may not be everyone's good time but for winter swimmers who return year after year to a northern Vermont lake near the Canadian border, ...

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 ...

People run into the freezing North Sea as part of the traditional New Year's day swim in coastal Scheveningen district of The Hague, Netherlands. Call it “Viking swimming,” “freezing plunges,” "polar ...

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 ...

THE CHALLENGE. TED: THIS IS NOT YOUR AVERAGE POLAR PLUNGE. IT IS NOT BIG CROWDS. IT IS THREE PEOPLE SWIMMING IN 39 DEGREE WATER FOR A MILE. >> NATALIE. NATALIE. TED: FOR THE ICE MILE SWIM, THE RULES ...

Donaldson set records for under-ice swimming at the age of 84.Michael C. Donaldson Michael C. Donaldson is an 84-year-old entertainment lawyer and record-setting under-ice swimmer. He didn't start his ...

Sharon Prahl was 21 when death nearly took her. She was biking cross-country with a friend in 1986 when she hit a rough patch and flipped her bike, fracturing her skull and injuring her spine. In the ...