Courtesy of Josef Köberl, Hintertuxer Gletscher, Austria. Icebears Hintertux is a 3-day high-altitude, cold water swimming camp hosted by International Ice Swimming Association Austria between July 26th – July 29th in Hintertuxer Gletscher. Austrian Josef Köberl is the host, together with Italian Paolo Chiarino, Dane Sinne Lundgard and other swimmers from Austria and the Czech […]

Courtesy of Exploration Institute, Pacific Ocean. It has been 4 days that Ben Lecomte has not been able to swim due to squalls that have approached his path between Japan and California on The Swim. After reaching 583 nautical miles (1,080 km) off the coast of Japan, the weather and anticipated storms have required that

Courtesy of Red Bull Surf + Rescue in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The lifeguards of Ocean City (New Jersey) won the Fourth Annual Red Bull Surf + Rescue in Atlantic City, New Jersey. But the entire competition was touch-and-go with an impending storm just offshore. “With the support of the U.S. Coast Guard, we were

Photo of Alex Kostich, courtesy of Mike Lewis. 2,472 people finished the Samsung Bosphorus Cross-Continental Swim (Samsung Boğazıçi Kitalararasi Yarislari or Samsung Boğaziçi Kıtalararası Yüzme Yarışı), a 6.5 km race across the Istanbul Strait where swimmers start by jumping off a ship in Kanlica on the Asian side of the Bosphorus and finish on docks

Courtesy of WOWSA, English Channel. While James Loreto has trained hard, traveling from Maryland to Ireland in order to take part in the last two Cork Distance Weeks. Cork Distance Week coach Ned Denison recalled Loreto’s participation, “Jim watched his swimming mates get their names on the towel and get crowned at the Triple Crown

Courtesy of Adherbal Treidler de Oliveira, North Channel. It is considered by many to be the hardest channel to swim across in the world: 35 km across cold, jellfish-strewn water between Northern Ireland and Scotland. And nothing could be further from the waters of Brazil than the North Channel. But Adherbal Treidler de Oliveira from

Courtesy of WOWSA, North Channel. Californian Amy Appelhans Gubser has been on a tear over the last few years – swimming the Farallon Islands (relay), across the Strait of Gibraltar, in Lake Tahoe, across the Catalina Channel, 4 stages of the S.C.A.R. Swim Challenge (twice), across the Santa Barbara Channel, the Border Buster in Lake