In March, a TikTok video of a woman relaxing in an ice bath on a Cape Town beach went viral, leaving many viewers confused and in stitches.
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The video, which garnered more than 990 000 views, was shot by Wouter Lombard (@waarswouter), who recently returned to that very beach to take his debut dip in the inflatable ice bath.
‘It was only the right thing to do to go “behind the scenes” and answer all the questions we had,’ Lombard wrote in an Instagram post.
In his latest video, Lombard meets the famous Ice Bath Queen and learns that her regular polar plunges are thanks to @subzeroct – a group that arranges guided ice water immersions in the most beautiful locations in the Cape:
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Cape {town} Etc readers can also look forward to an ice bath experience next week, when one of our team members will also take the plunge to learn the hows, whats and whys! Stay tuned.
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