1. Wim Hof previously held a Guinness World Record for swimming under ice and prolonged full-body contact with ice, and he holds a record for a barefoot half marathon on ice and snow.
17 Facts About Wim Hof
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Wim Hof was born on 20 April 1959 in Sittard, Limburg, Netherlands.
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Wim Hof is an extreme athlete noted for his ability to withstand low temperatures.
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Wim Hof's method seems to be inspired by thousands-year-old technique where the Indian Saints used to practice Yoga and Meditation in the Himalayas under extreme cold weather.
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Some experts say that practicing Wim Hof method is "Gambling with your life".
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Wim Hof has said he has attained 26 world records, but he has held only three different records.
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On 16 March 2000, Hof set the Guinness World Record for farthest swim under ice on his second attempt, with a distance of 57.5 metres.
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Wim Hof has set the world record for longest time in direct, full-body contact with ice, 44 minutes in January 2010.
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Wim Hof's record has been broken several times and as of 2023 it stands at 4 hours, 2 minutes.
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In 2007, Wim Hof climbed to an altitude of 7,400 metres on Mount Everest wearing nothing but shorts and shoes, but aborted the attempt due to a recurring foot injury.
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Wim Hof managed to climb from base camp to about 6,700 metres wearing just shorts and sandals, but after that he wore boots, saying he needed to affix crampons at that point.
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In 2016, Wim Hof reached Gilman's Point on Mount Kilimanjaro with journalist Scott Carney in 28 hours, an event later documented in the book What Doesn't Kill Us.
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In 2020, the YouTube channel Yes Theory published a short film about their experiences with Wim Hof, titled Becoming Superhuman with Ice Man.
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Wim Hof met his first wife Marivelle-Maria, called "Olaya Rosino Fernandez", in the Vondelpark in Amsterdam in the garden of roses.
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Wim Hof died by suicide in 1995 by jumping from an eight-story building.
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Wim Hof had a hard time psychologically with that incident and the freezing water was the only place he didn't think about it.
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In 2012 Wim Hof was found guilty of domestic violence against the eighteen-year old son of his then girlfriend Caroline.