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BREAKING NEWS – Oslo, Norway – Even though whiteout blizzards, and icy water that rarely tops 40 degrees aren’t exactly synonymous with surfing, for a growing niche of hardy wave-seekers, those daunting conditions are part of a less-traveled journey to surfing nirvana: scoring that perfect, never-surfed-before swell in a remote cold-water place like Norway, Iceland, British Columbia, Newfoundland, Alaska or Russia. The ultimate goal while sub-zero surfing in the Arctic is to hang ten, but due to most of them regularly experiencing frostbite and hypothermia in which their toes literally freeze and fall off, most of them are now hanging in between four and six.