Agafia Lykova achieved what was previously thought impossible. When Soviet geologists flew over the Siberian taiga in 1978, they spotted a small clearing with a crude dwelling in one of the most ...

Wearing nothing but a bathing suit, a swimming cap and an underwater mask, the 40-year-old woman plunged into a carved-out section of a frozen Siberian lake, before diving under the ice to swim in ...