It may not be everyone’s cup of tea, but more and more Brits are swapping chlorinated indoor pools for the exhilarating, mind-altering thrill of a bracing cold-water dip. Whether you prefer to stay ...

“With open water swimming, or wild swimming as they call it in Europe, there’s no one judging you or telling you that you need to be faster,” she says. “I find it really liberating.

Wild swimming doesn’t get wilder than Scotland’s northernmost shores. Stylist contributor Anna Hart braces herself and leaps in Nobody warns you that wildness is an addiction. The more we ...

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