In just a few short months, organizers of an ice swimming competition pulled together an event that brought together a hundred swimmers from all over the world. They competed on Saturday in an ...

BUTLER, Tenn. (WJHL) — Donald Winters probably broke a world record Tuesday, but the 66-year-old went through several minutes of agony in the process. “The first, oh, three-fourths of it went real ...

NEWPORT, Vt. — Plunging into a frozen lake and swimming laps may not be everyone's good time but for winter swimmers who return year after year to a northern Vermont lake near the Canadian border, ...

Last November, Bulcsú Lengyel became the first Hungarian to swim one kilometer in the icy waters of Antarctica, and a few weeks ago, he successfully completed a one-kilometer ice swim in the Svalbard ...

Sharon Prahl was 21 when death nearly took her. She was biking cross-country with a friend in 1986 when she hit a rough patch and flipped her bike, fracturing her skull and injuring her spine. In the ...

Can open water swimming in the cold enhance your physical and mental health? Increasingly, the answer seems to be yes. Certainly the positive buzz on cold water swimming continues to grow, thanks to ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — Summer is peak season for water activities, making it a key time to teach water safety. We talked with the owner of a local swim school who is on a mission to make a drowning ...