In Filip Remunda’s documentary “Happiness to All,” the Czech filmmaker portrays a characteristically off-kilter protagonist – and one who projects invincibility somehow tinged with doom. The film made ...

Russian freediver Yekaterina Nekrasova is believed to have set a new world record in under-ice swimming. Russian media reported she swam over 120 meters (400 feet) under the frozen surface of Lake ...

Ice swimming, or epiphany bathing, is a tradition in Russia. For many Orthodox Christians, it is part of a January ritual commemorating the baptism of Jesus. Nekrasova, who trains four times a week in ...

Wearing nothing but a bathing suit, a swimming cap and an underwater mask, the 40-year-old woman plunged into a carved-out section of a frozen Siberian lake, before diving under the ice to swim in ...