Thrill Of The Chill

Wild swimming promises both exhilaration, community and calm

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SUBMERGING yourself into frigid, flowing water is an exhilarating - borderline spiritual - experience. Toes tingle, brisk wind brushes against bodies and swimmers return to shore feeling transformed.

Benefits of cold-water swimming span physical and mental wellbeing. And where better to dip your toes than in the beautiful blue waters of the Borders?

Lynda Stoddart set up Take to the Water, a community interest company in the Borders, with her husband in 2022.