Deep underground in a disused iron mine and under the bluish glow of a flashlight, a small crowd emerges from a sauna, steam rising off their bodies as they plunge into a crystal clear turquoise lake.

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As the cab slows to a stop, I scrape some of Jack Frost’s handiwork from the window and peer into the depths of the polar night. We’re only 15 minutes from the center of Helsinki, yet dense forest ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... “The Opposite of Cold: The Northwoods Finnish Sauna Tradition” ($34.95, University of Minnesota Press) At first blush, the act of jumping into a lake after ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. – Christopher and Julie Rice sat naked in the sauna, sweating in its 180-degree heat. In the crisp air outside, they then played a few hands of cribbage and noshed on pickles and ...

The Arctic SnowHotel in Finland takes relaxing to a chill new level with their Snow Sauna: a sauna that, save for the wood benches, is comprised entirely of ice and snow. As the sauna’s snowflake ...

I'm in Helsinki, surveying the city from its fanciest rooftop restaurant as the setting sun glints off the neoclassical Lutheran Cathedral and the onion-domed Russian Orthodox Church. I should be ...

Fancy stripping off before a flight and getting sweaty with fellow passengers? Finnair think you might like to and has backed the idea by adding a sauna to its new premium lounge in Helsinki Airport.

ROCHESTER, Minn. -- Christopher and Julie Rice sat naked in the sauna, sweating in its 180-degree heat. In the crisp air outside, they then played a few hands of cribbage and noshed on pickles and ...