ADVENTURES
2024
SVALBARD
Last stop before the North Pole
21-Aug to 1-Sep 2024
2025
5GREENLAND
The Icy wonderland
23-30 August 2025
watch this space
2025-2026
BOOKING
QUALIFYING
All swims follow the International Ice Swimming Association (“IISA”) standards and safety rules.
To qualify, one must have their qualifying swim, per IISA rules, in their BIO before the trip.
You must decide your desired swim distance and communicate it to the team leader during bookings.
The decisions regarding your swimming distance will be at the team leader’s discretion based on your experience and conditions at the time. We always try and do our best to have everyone achieving their desired distance, with safety first.
IISA RULES and Qualifying Criteria.
Any swim of 100m or longer must have been done before as per IISA before your trip.
Any distance from 50m onwards requires a valid IISA Medical + ECG
The places we go to and the environment we will face is taken into consideration.
Most important is : Be healthy, fit, strong mind and good spirit.
you are in good hands.
ABOUT US
We love going to remote places with extreme raw beauty with frozen water and swim. Nature in its raw appearance is the most beautiful, soul re-setting and life calibrating experience.
We are a team of experienced Ice Swimmers. Our team leader is RAM BARKAI, the founder of the International Ice Swimming Association and Ice Swimming Adventures. Sam Whelpton assisting with logistics during the trips and we always have a very experienced Medical Doctor from the team below, who has been overseeing many Ice Swimming events and swims.
RAM BARKAI
Adventure Leader
Founder/CEO/Chair the International Ice Swimming Association &
Ice Swimming Adventures
Stewart Campbell
Adventure Organising and booking
A seasoned Polar expedition guide and adventure travel agent