Ice swimming in Lesotho

RE: Ice swimming in Lesotho

knelson — Fri, 16 Dec 2016 02:59:53 GMT

When I read the title of this thread I thought it must be a joke. Ice swimming in Lesotho? Lesotho is a country that's entirely surrounded by South Africa, right? So I looked it up and learned an interesting fact: Lesotho is the world's highest country by minimum elevation. The entire country is above 1,000 meters elevation, the lowest point being 1,400 m (4,593 ft) above sea level.

RE: Ice swimming in Lesotho

SwimDogs — Thu, 15 Dec 2016 11:23:25 GMT

If anyone's interested, I created a short (8-mins) film about my Winter & Ice Swimming experiences which includes some footage from Lake Memphremagog, the "Dark & Cold" Scandinavian Winter Swimming Championships, and the Coney Island Polar Bear Club. The winter swimming community is made up of wonderful, crazy people...or WONDERFULLY CRAZY! www.youtube.com/watch

RE: Ice swimming in Lesotho

ViveBene — Fri, 09 Dec 2016 07:47:42 GMT

Phil runs some very cold water swims, not yet an ice mile though plenty of ice, in Lake Memphremagog, March 3-5, 2017: kingdomgames.co/.../ SwimDogs, that's a nice recall of one of my favorite places to swim - Glacier National Park's 10-mile lakes. Funny story: I was in the old visitors center one February Day, air temp zero degrees, when 3 young women walked in to warm up. Apparently they had been skiing on Lake McDonald, fell in, self-rescued, walked down the road to the visitors center, and took it all pretty well, regretting only that they had lost their skis.

RE: Ice swimming in Lesotho

SwimDogs — Fri, 02 Dec 2016 12:23:05 GMT

Come join us in Montana...We're working toward an ice mile. 10853

RE: Ice swimming in Lesotho

Rob Copeland — Fri, 02 Dec 2016 08:42:48 GMT

Just saw this for the first time, do not know how old the report is.The swim was August 2016. One note - Elaine Howley from the USMS national office, while not at this swim is a certified Ice Miler (not just 1K like in the story). Elaine’s swam her ice mile in December 2012 in Boston Harbor at 5C.