The thrill, the chill

chilly swim
Fritz Gunkel, part of a team called the 4 Tops, above, leaped into 34-degree Resurrection Bay during January's Polar Bear Jumpoff Festival in Seward. Fifty-eight people, some in costume, some not, braved temperatures in the midteens with 25 mph winds to raise about $73,000 for the American Cancer Society. (Photo by Evan R. Steinhauser)

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