This record-setting event beat the previous global record of 1,799 participants, which was set in Poland in 2015 during the XIIth Ice Swimmers Convention.

April 14 (UPI) --A total 2,461 bathers braved the frigid waters of the Czech Republic's second-largest lake to break a world record for the largest polar bear dip ... where the water was measured ...

From morning showers to winter swimming, cold water exposure affects the body in ... Even seemingly healthy individuals have collapsed during polar plunge events due to the intense cardiovascular ...

One male polar bear, bony after a season without seal blubber ... Polar bears are hardy creatures—they can fast for upward of 180 days and swim hundreds of miles without a break—but consensus ...

Thalarctos Maritimus (Ursus maritimus) commonly known as Polar bear swimming under water. Polar Bear via Depositphotos The ... to maintain their energy levels and insulation against the cold. Polar ...

By Kate O’Halloran Every week in the UK, thousands of mostly middle-aged women take the plunge into freezing cold seawater. Members of the “Bluetits Chill Swimmers” say the initiative has drastically ...

Tucked away in the southern reaches of Oregon, where the Klamath Basin stretches toward California, sits a humble ice cream ...

In the tiny town of Merrill, Oregon, where the water tower stands taller than most dreams, there’s a blue-and-white ice cream shop with a name that promises arctic-level refreshment.

Inland, elders told me, tundra lakes were disappearing, and with them drinking water and nesting ... Lenters spotted two polar bears a quarter-mile away swimming toward him. Bears are an ever ...