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 ...

Chilean swimmer Barbara Hernandez has been awarded two world records after completing a very icy swim in February. Known as ‘the ice mermaid’, Barbara swam one nautical mile (1,852 metres) through the ...

Watching the Baltimore Ravens play the Tennessee Titans in an NFL game in London recently in temperatures close to freezing, fans in the stadium must have felt cold, but the players must have felt ...

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, ...

Tipton and Harper both said that any benefits from cold-water immersion come from the body’s cold-shock response: the sudden ...

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 ...

Menopausal women who regularly swim in cold water report significant improvements to their physical and mental symptoms, finds a new study. Menopausal women who regularly swim in cold water report ...

In the late 1980s, a research scientist in Canada named Gordon Giesbrecht placed a notice hoping to recruit volunteers for the first in a series of experiments that, no matter how he framed them, ...

Menopausal women who regularly swim in cold water report significant improvements to their physical and mental symptoms, finds a new study led by UCL researchers. The research, published in Post ...