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From Ice-Bathing to Firelit Forest Hikes, A Swiss Holiday so Cool, It’s Ice Cold.
Story and Photography by Amy Laughinghouse
y mother has offered me a lot of advice system. “Never set foot in a frozen lake in a
over the years. Some of it I’ve heeded: bikini.” Or rather, “Never set foot in a frozen
M “Look both ways before you cross the lake, full stop.”
street.” “Always buckle your seatbelt.” Some of it So, when someone suggested that I should try
I haven’t: “Don’t talk to strangers.” (Sorry, Mom, my hand at “ice-bathing” amid the snow-covered
but as a journalist, that’s part of my job…and Alps, my answer was, “why not?” (Common sense
generally speaking, the stranger the better). being less common than most would suppose).
But one topic evaded her maternal warning Now, here I stand in a bathing suit on the
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