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As temperatures dipped below -25 C with the wind chill Saturday morning, 76-year-old Joan Barton stripped down to her “skivvies” and plunged into the…

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Share To see what all the fuss was about I recently dipped my toe in Oxfordshire’s icy cold waters. Did I like it? Maybe. I’m no stranger to plunging into murky depths (I’ve done a few triathlons and trained in toe-curling conditions) but 5C in a local lake in March was something beyond. There I was, teetering on the edge of the water wearing little but a swimming costume and rash vest, neoprene gloves and booties, yet ‘cold’ didn’t come close to describing it. It felt as if a million little knives were stabbing me all over as it literally took my breath away. I should have checke...

Why do city people need woke National Trust directives when they could just go for a walk? Ray Mears is right - why do people fetishise fads like 'wild swimming' - instead of enjoying the outdoors the common-sense way 20 April 2021 • 1:44pm Six years ago, visiting the ladies pond on Hampstead Heath even at peak summer was a relaxed affair – no queues, no entry fees, just an assortment of blissfully un-self-conscious, hot people keen on cooling off in some rather murky chilly water. In the intervening years, films, books and countless articles extolling the virtues of ‘wild’ swimming, ...