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The Iceman climbeth
by Scott Bird | March 10, 2007
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Wim Hof likes to stay cool. In September 2004 he spent 1 hour and 8 minutes in an ice bath, breaking his own world record from January that same year. The January effort, incidentally, wasn’t his first.
Hof, aka ‘Iceman’, is a practitioner of Inner Fire yoga (Tum-mo) - using it to increase his tolerance to extremely cold conditions. In addition to the abovementioned ice baths, he has :
- climbed several snow-covered mountains in bare feet
- run a Finnish half-marathon in bare feet (ground temperature was -37C/-35F)
- and most recently, set a new world record in Finland by swimming beneath the ice within the Arctic Circle.
The next challenge? Climbing Everest, hopefully breaking a few records along the way. The standout one - and certainly in keeping with his theme - seems to be the idea of performing part of the climb wearing shorts, and no shirt. He’s a very, very strange man.
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