Holidays: Breaking the Ice in Lapland ; Making New Friends with Freezing Dip They Say It's Grim Up North - but It's Colder Than You Could Possibly Imagine in the Arctic. Graham Hill Visits Lapland and Lives to Tell the Tale

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IT feels like an episode of I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here - but in the Arctic Circle.

My challenge, should I choose to accept it, is to take a sauna close to a log cabin in the middle of Finnish Lapland. Nothing wrong with that of course.

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Holidays: Breaking the Ice in Lapland ; Making New Friends with Freezing Dip They Say It's Grim Up North - but It's Colder Than You Could Possibly Imagine in the Arctic. Graham Hill Visits Lapland and Lives to Tell the Tale

It's just that the way they do things around here means this is no ordinary sauna.

Entering, I cannot help but notice that the frozen lake nearby has a hole cut into it, with a ladder leading into the icy depths.

And that's the catch. It seems that the traditional way to take a sauna in Lapland is to work up ...

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