Background
Hof was born in Sittard, Limburg.
Hof was born in Sittard, Limburg.
Hof completed a full marathon (42.195 kilometres (26219 mi)), above the arctic circle in Finland, in temperatures close to −20 °C (−4 °F).
Research has shown that Wim Hof is able to control his autonomic nervous system. Hof holds 20 world records, including a world record for longest ice bath. 2007: He climbed to 6.7 kilometres (22,000 ft) altitude at Mount Everest wearing nothing but shorts and shoes, but failed to reach the summit due to a recurring foot injury.
2008: He broke his previous world record by staying immersed in ice for 1 hour, 13 minutes and 48 seconds at Guinness World Records 2008.
The night before, he performed the feat on the Today Show. Dressed in nothing but shorts, Hof finished in 5 hours and 25 minutes.
The challenge was filmed by Firecrackerfilms, who make productions for British Broadcasting Corporation, Channel 4 and National Geographic. 2010: Hof again broke the ice endurance record by standing fully immersed in ice for 1 hour and 44 minutes in Tokyo, Japan.
2011: Hof broke the ice endurance record twice, in Inzell in February and in New York in November.
The Guinness World Record is now set for 1 hour and 52 minutes and 42 seconds by Hof. In September, Hof also ran a full marathon in the Namib Desert without water. The run was performed under the supervision of Doctor Thijs Eijsvogels.
The book proposes that it is possible for anyone to control their own body temperature.
On 19 April 2012, an episode of the United States television program: Paranormal Files, featuring Hof, was broadcast. Austin sat in the tank for about 20 minutes.
When he got out of the water, the other two team members used a heat camera to reveal that his surface body temperature was at about four degrees Celsius. Hof"s core body temperature stayed the same for the entire twenty minutes, as did his heart rate.
He managed to stay submerged for over ninety minutes.
In research done by Radboud University (The Netherlands) Wim Hof trained a group of 12 volunteers to prove the immune system can be modulated. He had already proven in 2011 the ability to control his own immune system.
2009: In February Hof reached the top of Mount Kilimanjaro in his shorts within two days. In November 2011 Hof and his student Justin Rosales published, a book documenting their background, adventures, training, exclusive methods, and exercises used to attain the ability to endure extreme temperatures.
Hof was tested against a member of the team named Austin, both sitting in a tank full of ice.
