The water is icy off the pier underneath the Roger Casement statue in Dun Laoghaire. For Marta Vera however it is not near as cold as the river in which she immersed herself as part of training to become a level two Wim Hof instructor. It was intense training in Przesieka, a mountain village in the south of Poland, made famous as the training base for Wim Hof, a Dutch extreme athlete known as the Iceman.  Hof has a home in Przesieka where online publication Vice made a documentary about his achievements that has been watched by almost ten million…

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