Although the first day of exercises is painful and exhausting, true to Hof’s word our progress is rapid. The next day we stand in the snow for 15 minutes before the same feeling of panic sets in. In the afternoon we take a brief dip in the basin of an ice-cold waterfall that is a 5-minute walk from Hof’s back door. With every attempt, the barriers that we’ve built in our minds about the cold recede a little further.
