The frigid swim was the culmination of a year of daily training. (AP Video shot by Caroline Chen and Olivia Zhang) Residents watch a woman jump into a pool carved from ice on the frozen Songhua river ...
long. Some said their limbs were already numb in the -13 C (8 F) weather. Chen Xia, who came from Zhejiang province about 1,700 kilometers (1,000 miles) to the south, dived into the river even ...