A Beautiful and Trippy Look at Cold Water Surfing

Cold water surfing is one of those things: it sure looks cool, but it’s probably not for everyone. Braving freezing temperatures to get barreled in a wave looking like a total ninja is certainly a brave act, and the good folk over at Zion Wetsuits created a beautifully trippy short film about just that. They lived in a van, circumnavigated Iceland, and got “stuffed deep in the ice pipe.” How’s that for some surf lingo?

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Either way, the 20-minute film The Fjordman is mesmerizing to watch, shot on a mix of old film and digital, complete with an original music score.

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I manage digital content here at TGR, run our gear testing program, and am stoked to be living the dream in the Tetons.
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