TikToker Elina Makinen said ice swimming is a "common" activity in Finland, her home country. She believes the activity is good for her health and makes her feel "energized." But the tax advisor ...

Elina Makinen, a 28-year-old TikTok user from Finland, has grown her 1.4 million follower fanbase on the platform by simply channeling her inner ice queen. Makinen is big proponent of swimming in ...

It was the bargain he'd made with the winter swimmers he photographed for his surreal series Avanto: After shooting, he'd join them. So he stepped in. "My heart stopped," Lahdesmaki says. "I felt like ...

Heinola, Finland — French freediver Arthur Guerin-Boeri set a record on Thursday by swimming 394 feet under ice. He did it in three minutes with just one breath, wearing a wetsuit but no flippers or ...

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 ...

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 ...

On a late autumn day, I watched a four-year-old Finnish girl walk toward a hole in the solid ice surface of a freezing lake. The sky was gray, twilight was already approaching at 3:45 pm, and the ...

Egg-like ice balls are piled up on a beach in Hailuoto, Finland, delighting people who braved the cold to visit the island. “This was [an] amazing phenomenon, [I’ve]never seen before,” Tarja ...

March 26 (UPI) --A French freediver plunged into a frigid lake in Finland to swim 394 feet under the ice and break a world record. Arthur Guerin-Boeri, 36, a five-time world champion freediver, ...