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For 30 years they called me crazy, irresponsible and a thousand other things...📹: @uproxx

1 Oct 2026 · 1 min

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Wim Hof spent 30 years doing extreme cold challenges like swimming under ice and climbing Everest in shorts while people called him crazy. Scientists eventually got curious about how his body could do these things, which led to research into his breathing technique and how cold exposure changed him.

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The cold gave me a direct understanding of deeper breathing and how to heal a broken heart. Then I went and did all kinds of remarkable challenges. Apparently, they found it very remarkable and great and spectacular. So I came in contact with television. One after the other, they challenged me more, more, more, more, more. Hey, go swim 50 meters under the ice. Go swim 100 meters under the ice. Climb Mount Everest in shorts. That led up That the scientists became curious. Hey, what this man is doing is not possible physiologically.