Extreme swim
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Planning document to conduct an extreme open water swim up at 6,000m altitude on Mount Everest by Nejib Belhedi on 17 August 2014
noun - Extreme swim is an open water swim of any distance under any conditions that pushes the boundaries of physical and psychological limits for an individual open water swimmer, especially when discussing an ice swim.
Usage
Lynne Cox, Lewis Pugh and Ram Barkai are world-renowned pioneers in extreme swims as they seek adventures in some of the Earth's coldest bodies of water.
Synonyms
Ice swim, long distance swim, marathon swim, ultra marathon swim, high-risk swim
Examples
- Ram Barkai and Kieron Palframan completed an unprecedented tandem swim in 2 hours 13 minutes from Seal Island in False Bay to the South Africa mainland on 28 March 2021.
- On 10 July 2021, Josef Köberl of Austria will attempt an Ice Mile at 3,216 meters (10,551 feet) within the glacier crevasse at the Nature Ice Palace on the Hintertux Glacier in Austria in water temperatures between -0.3°C and -1°C.
- On 5 September 2021, Lewis Pugh completed 14 stage swims over 12 days swimming a total of 7.8 km in the Ilulissat Icefjord within the Arctic Circle as part of his Greenland Swim, an unprecedented multi-stage ice swim where he swam every day in water temperatures between 0°C and 3°C (32°F – 37.4°F) for the purpose to impress upon world leaders the speed of the climate crisis at the United Nations Climate Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland.
Videos of Hudson Brothers
The Hudson Brothers attempt, plan and complete maelstrom swims,by Beth Harrison and Jack Hudson:
External links
- Josef Köberl Is Confined To Set A Unique Distance And Altitude Ice Swimming Record
- Ram Tough, Swimming In The Death Zone From The Ring Of Death To Strandfontein
- Nejib Belhedi Is 2020 World Open Water Swimming Man Of The Year
- Bárbara Hernández Huerta Is 2020 World Open Water Swimming Woman Of The Year
- Original Triple Crown By Kamil Resa Alsaran Is 2020 World Open Water Swimming Performance Of The Year
- Kosatka DV Is 2020 World Open Water Swimming Offering Of The Year
- Coffee And Caffeine Controlled By World Anti-Doping Agency
- Differences Between Men And Women In The Open Water
- Should Ice Swimming Be In The Olympics? Yes!
- If Ice Swimming Were In The Olympics, What Are The Rules?
- Colin's Conundrum If Ice Swims Were In The Olympics
- Ram Barkai Sees Only Tip Of The Iceberg
- 100 Things Every Open Water Swimmer Should Know
- World Open Water Swimming Association
- Statistics On Ice Swimmers And Ice Swimming
- Where Landmarks Are Pure Snowy White
- Fearless And Frozen At The Bottom Of The World
- Orienteering In The Open Water
- 2015 World Open Water Swimming Man Of The Year Nominees
- Nominees For The 2015 WOWSA Awards
- WOWSA Man of the Year Voting
- World Open Water Swimming Association
- Lewis Pugh Swims That Can Go No Further South
