TED – Endure

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Into the Ice: Ted Epstein’s Death-Defying Swim Across the Bering Strait

January 28, 2026

Adventure, Biography, Endurance Sports, Inspirational, Mental Toughness, Open Water Swimming, Swimming, Ultra Endurance

Swimming the Bering Strait — A Birthday Into History July 19, 1993 For his 58th birthday, Ted didn’t ask for a cake.He asked for the coldest, loneliest stretch of water on Earth. He wanted to swim the Bering Strait. Just a few years earlier, legendary cold-water swimmer Lynne Cox had stunned the world by crossing…
How Ted Epstein Climbed Mount Vinson Against All Odds

January 27, 2026

Adventure, Biography, Climbing, Inspirational, Mountain Climbing, Ultra Endurance

Climbing Mount Vinson — The Top of Antarctica (1987) One Arm, 100 Pounds, and the Coldest Mountain on Earth Mount Vinson is the highest point in Antarctica, rising 16,050 feet above one of the harshest places on Earth. It sits 750 miles from the South Pole on the driest continent on the planet, where temperatures…