Category: Winter Swimming

The first cold wave in 2021 hit Beijing on Wednesday. The highest temperature dropped to minus 17℃, with a wind level of 8 to 9. Some winter swimming fans smashed the ice on a frozen lake in Shichahai, a historic spot in downtown Beijing. An elderly winter swimming fan, nearly 70, has maintained this habit…

A group of elderly swimmers jump into Beijing’s freezing waters as the mercury dips to minus 11 degrees centigrade just past midday, ahead of the coldest lows in three decades expected Wednesday night.

Each year, on the first of January, thousends of Dutchies make their way to the beach at Scheveningen to dive into a freezing ocean. The first Scheveningen Nieuwjaarsduik took place in 1965 and the event is sponsored by smoked sausage maker Unox, which provides all the swimmers with an orange hat. The main swim has…

Swimmers around China plunged into freezing water to welcome 2021 on the New Year’s Day. January 1, 2021 also marks the 25th national winter swimming day in China.

Well, that’s one way to celebrate the New Year! Dozens of swimmers raced into the freezing waters for an unofficial Polar Bear Plunge in Coney Island, New York City. Usually attended by hundreds, this year’s edition was canceled due to the COVID pandemic.

People run into the cold sea in South Boston, Massachusetts, to mark the New Year. This year’s official polar plunge was cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic but groups of swimmers gathered at M Street beach to brave the 4°C water.

On the banks of Lake Baikal in Siberia, where temperatures plummet to as low as -35 degrees celsius (-31 fahrenheit), around a dozen Russians emerge invigorated after an icy dip. To ring in 2021, the swimmers, known in Russia as “walruses”, run several kilometres through a snowy forest in swimsuits and festive costumes before plunging…

An unexpected Christmas Day in Bournemouth means one thing! A cold morning winter sea swim at Bournemouth Beach, England to start the day. BBRR. And a few other Christmas vlog features!