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If you think you love cold weather, you should read about Wim Hof and Lynne Cox. Hof climbed Mount Everest wearing only his shorts. Cox swam through the glaciers in 38 degree water. I have nothing in common with these people.
It's a bitterly cold winter day and students on the University of Minnesota campus are bundled up, hurrying to their next class. Wim Hof, dressed in shorts, sandals and nothing else, appeared from the doorway of a school building.
He's known as 'The Ice Man."
Scientists can't really explain it, but the 48-year-old Dutchman is able to withstand, and even thrive, in temperatures that could be fatal to the average person.
He's known as 'The Ice Man."
Scientists can't really explain it, but the 48-year-old Dutchman is able to withstand, and even thrive, in temperatures that could be fatal to the average person.
Like Hof, Lynne soon discovered that she had an almost super-human ability to survive in frigid water. In 1987, she became the first person to swim across the Bering Strait, from Alaska to what was then the Soviet Union, in 38-degree water.
And in 2002, she set a new goal: to swim a mile through the massive icebergs of the Antarctic.
Like Hof, Cox prepares herself by somehow using her mind to control her body's temperature.
And in 2002, she set a new goal: to swim a mile through the massive icebergs of the Antarctic.
Like Hof, Cox prepares herself by somehow using her mind to control her body's temperature.
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