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 ...

A young man tries to swim under the ice from one hole to another in a frozen lake. He uses a thick safety rope to stay ...

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 ...

J.B. Lanza has searched hard for the one thing she could be great at. When she started swimming in icy water, she found it. LYNN – J.B. Lanza placed the meat cleaver on the ground and stepped between ...

Taking a cold shower or going for a swim in an icy lake might not appeal to everyone, but for Wim Hof, freezing water became a Iifeline. The Dutch record breaker, known as “The Iceman”, has become ...

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 ...

Estonian swimmer Merle Liivand kicks through the waters of Lake Johanna in Arden Hills, Minn., during the inaugural MN Ice Swim on Feb. 22. In just a few short months, organizers of an ice swimming ...

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 ...

Qing Li always wanted to compete in the Olympics. The 35-year-old grew up surrounded by swimming greats and even got to meet a few Olympic swimmers before she turned 10. From a young age, Li competed ...

The longest distance para ice swim by a male, under International Ice Swimming Association regulations, is 2.11 kilometres (1.31 miles) by Jonty Warneken (UK) on 19 January 2014. He swam for 58 ...