The Iceman Cometh

I had every intention of going into work on Saturday. As I was reluctantly getting ready to go, Daryn returned my call from earlier. I asked what he was up to that day. “Yeah, so... some of us are going to go see this guy who’s sitting in a big tub of ice.” Pause. “You want to come?”

I decided to go in to work on Sunday.

This is Wim Hof. He’s mastered a type of meditation that allows him to regulate his own body temperature and heart rate.


He stood in the ice for one hour and twelve minutes (breaking the previous world record—his own—of one hour and eleven minutes). We stood in the street and watched him stand in the ice for about forty-five minutes.

Here he is coming out of the ice. Check out his companions’ snappy t-shirts.