Man spends over four hours submerged in ice
Apr 22, 2025
André spent over one year preparing, including by performing polar plunges and meditation exercises.
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Hell, rain, wind
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The attempt almost shut down. My name is Andre Bellaby Elomou. I wanted to do this for my daughter
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which is on the autism spectrum. I wanted to prove that when you have good cars in mind
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you can do all things. Start the car! While I was doing the attempt
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I was just allowed to wear swimming shorts. The ice blew the way to my neck
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I felt a little cold, but I was totally fine. My body and my mind were so much ready for it
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so I was getting ready to go to war. I trained for close to four years
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I started to increase my eyes about one minute and a half
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four minutes, seven minutes, 20 minutes and so on. Our time was really hard
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When we entered 25 minutes, a big thunderstorm arrived. Hell, rain, wind
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The attempt almost shut down because the lightning strikes were getting closer
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Then after I got closer to one hour, my mind and my spirits cannot detach themselves
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So my body was still in the ice, but my mind was a bit somewhere else
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Four hours and two minutes is the current world record. Andre is close to breaking that right now
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I'm trying to feel all lots of the pain of my body. My legs were pretty sore and something inside me told me that Andre, you're going to break
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the world record a few minutes more. Four hours! Within the mind, within the body, within yourself, within your soul, and that's how you can activate that infinite potential to push yourself
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Nine, five. My successful record time was of four hours and five minutes
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who's the new world record holder
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