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The serene beauty of a winter swim

There is something captivating about a breaststroke amid snowfall

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by Lauren Hansen
January 25, 2016

A swimmer dives into the icy waters of the Houhai Lake in central Beijing on Dec. 21, 2010.

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Winter swimmers do the breaststroke in a partially ice-covered swimming pool in Changzhi, Shanxi province, China, on Jan. 16, 2008.

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Members of a local winter swimming club swim in the Yenisei River during their weekly bathing session in the Russian Siberian town of Divnogorsk on Jan. 31, 2014.

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A man swims in a lake amid snowfall at a park in Jinan, Shandong province, China, on Nov. 12, 2009.

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Liard hot springs in winter in British Columbia, Canada, 2001.

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A winter swimmer dives into the calm waters of Pagasitikos bay in the Greek port town of Volos on Dec. 12, 2004.

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A woman swims in a pool during a snow storm in Jerusalem on Dec. 13, 2013.

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Bathers swim in the Blue Lagoon, a runoff pond that stays warm through winter at the Svartsengi geothermal power plant in Iceland on Nov. 11, 1991.

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People sprint into the frigid waters of Berlin's Strandbad Wannsee lido on March 29, 2013.

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A man climbs out of the hole cut into a frozen lake for ice-swimming in Kuopio, Central Finland, on Feb. 14, 2002.

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