“Winter swimming is not often associated with pleasure, it is very cold! In spite of this, more and more people are jumping into ice-cold sea, and there is a rise in memberships in the local winter swimmers clubs.”
The number of winter and ice swimming competitions around the world sponsored by international organizations such as the and the have been growing and more and more locations, particularly in Europe and North America, organize “bear plunges,” most commonly to celebrate New Year’s Day.
If you’re serious about swimming Viking style, registrations are open for the Scandinavian . (Not naked but still extremely cold and including an ice-hole poetry competition.)
There’s something about frost, ice, snow that brings out the ‘bonkers’ people when the opportunity for a bit of swimming is presented.



















