BOOK REVIEW
FROM FIRE TO ICE BY RAM BARKAI
The story behind a man’s obsession with cold water swimming. Ram Barkai grew up on a kibbutz in Israel, built an unlikely but successful career in finance in Japan and South Africa, and then went on to
create the International Ice Swim Association (IISA). The IISA exists to promote swimming in water of less than 5 degrees Celsius. It’s the organisation behind the daunting ‘Ice Mile’ challenge and now a series of national and world championship ice swimming events.