Copenhagen has cleaned up its act so much in the past 25 years that its once-industrial 12km-long harbour is now an all-year outdoor-swimming destination. In summer, a local friend tells me, the ...

Katja Pantzar hears her friend call out encouragingly as she stands on a wooden dock in central Helsinki on a cold, dark and snowy winter evening. It’s 14 F (-10 C), but all Pantzar is wearing is a ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It’s not easy to get changed outside for a swim in a Scottish loch. Especially when it’s January, the air ...

It’s Sunday morning, and as the fashionable folk of Kings Cross go about their business, I’m watching them from a pop-up sauna, sweating in my swimsuit and gnome-like sauna hat. Moments later my ...

When you think about starting the new year off right, what comes to mind? Like many of us, you may follow the time-honored tradition of making a list of goals and objectives to further your growth and ...

They inspired me to start swimming at the southern Sydney beach of Maroubra through the colder months. Armed with Ugg boots and hot water bottle, and accompanied by my swim buddy, Faith, we’d wander ...

MEYERS LAKE Under a rainy 40-degree sky, a group of women shrugged off coats and hats and climbed off the dock into the lake, laughing in the shockingly cold water. It’s a typical Wednesday for the ...

Ale Russian is a contributing writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023. Her work has appeared in Women's World, First For Women, Biography.com and the Chicago Sun-Times. Zac Efron ...

The UK's first floating sauna is preparing to open on Princes Dock this weekend. WYLD sauna provides a traditional Nordic experience and offers guests a place to relax and escape in the city centre.

Jenny Spinney challenged herself to go for daily dips well after swimming season was over As the sun sets on Fredericton's Killarney Lake, a few kids playing hockey take their last few shots at the ...