Including water socks, swim caps, and cozy fleece-lined sweatpants for post-dip. One chilly winter morning in my early twenties, I decided to trek across London’s Hampstead Heath to the Ladies’ Pond ...

Government to end fixed water bathing ‘season’ amid rise in wild swimming - The system for monitoring outdoor, swimming sites ...

On a frigid, 17-degree Sunday in early February, a group of swimsuit-clad Harpswellians gathered at Tide Mill Cove Neck to ...

William Brangham takes a look at the world of winter swimming and both its potential ... In the Czech Republic, locals there take to the cold waters of the Vltava River in early January to mark ...

Readers and viewers of Amy Liptrot’s memoir, The Outrun, and Nora Fingscheidt’s film adaptation, will recall the powerful scenes of cold water swimming. The book and film engagingly depict ...

Founder Sarah, Wendy and Jo tell Noush how transformative the community has been for them.

Swimmers will see more flexible seasons for cold water swimming as part of the UK and Welsh Governments’ reforms to bathing rules. The reforms include an end to fixed bathing season dates – from May ...

Outside, it’s a brisk thirty degrees and the water temperature is about the same. But a group of brave women are shedding their winter gear and donning different attire.

PRAGUE — Czech cold-water swimmers on Saturday set a new ... Vencl, a freediver, himself set a world record four years ago in men’s swimming under ice when he swam a record distance of 80.9 ...