A team preparing for the Ice Swimming World Championship has been forced to cancel training, after their open water venue froze over. The New Zealand Ice Water Swimming Team has been using the lake at Castle Ashby in Northamptonshire to acclimatise for the upcoming championships in Italy,

WARNING DISTRESSING CONTENT Cold water swimmer Lu Man is believed to have taken on a challenge to dive under a frozen lake in Hunan Province, China, when he got into difficulties

This is the dramatic moment tourists stuck on a frozen lake were rescued in India after the ice cracked beneath them. Four holidaymakers plunged into the freezing cold water when the icy surface suddenly shattered at Sela Lake in Arunachal Pradesh on January 5.