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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
shores of the Untersee in Arosa, Switzerland, too much of a shock to the system), and more
about three hours by train southeast of Zurich of a teeth—and buttocks—clenching, slow-mo-
Airport. Members of the EisbadiArosa organi- tion waddle. As calmly as a Zen-master Lamaze
zation have hacked a small hole in the lake’s coach, Prantl reminds us to focus on our
blanket of snow and ice, and one of their vol- breath, inhaling and exhaling slowly and
unteers, Carmen Prantl, is talking my friends deeply. “You can do it. One step after another,”
and me through our penguin plunge. Prantl purrs, as we mince down a short set of
Except it’s less of a plunge (which would be stairs into the Untersee.
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