Hop on social media these days, and it’s not uncommon for a video to pop up of someone looking meditative in a cold plunge pool. In the caption, they wax poetic about the innumerable benefits, both ...

Come winter, there’s nothing I love more than a chilly, supervised swim at Ponty Lido, the buzzing community hub everyone should know about ...

If you live near a body of water in the northern latitudes, you likely have heard of your local polar bear club — usually made up of a group of hearty swimmers who take part in cold water swimming.

It’s 8am and I’m standing at the edge of my local lake at Beckenham Place Park in London, the early morning sun just beginning to peek over the trees. A layer of mist is rising from the cold water and ...

You can barley scroll Insta these days without stumbling across an idyllic early morning shot of a neoprene-clad woman pacing purposefully into a lake, or a snap of flushed-cheeked friends clutching ...

The moment I realised my tongue wasn’t working properly, I knew I’d made a terrible mistake. I’d allotted myself ten minutes in the freezing Cornish sea which, given my level of experience, I’d ...