The icy Boxing Day sea swim

The World

On the day after Christmas, hundreds of people gather every year in the seaside town of Cromer, England, for an act of collective self-inflicted hypothermia. They jump in the icy North Sea. It’s a ritual that reporter Leo Hornak has never been tempted to take part in, until today.

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