---
title: "Netflix and Chill vs. Chilling Adventures"
description: "The two most intense winter adventures this week won’t fit on an Instagram feed."
date: "2016-01-25"
modified: "2016-01-25"
authors:
  - name: "Ben Keeshin"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/ben-keeshin"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/news/1848/netflix-and-chill-vs-chilling-adventures"
categories:
  - "News"
---

# Netflix and Chill vs. Chilling Adventures

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While you were encased in a layers of fluorescent Snuggy, peering over a mug of hot chocolate at a Netflix miniseries, some folks with significantly more gusto were literally testing how much chill their he-man bodies could take. Here’s how two of the world’s most adventuresome men spent this January week.

Anyone whose internet connection withstood the storm got an eyeful of snow-filled Instagram hijinks. College swimmers took head-first race starts off porches into [feet of snow](<https://www.instagram.com/p/BA5UUGFtEA1/>). A couple of urban shredders took their boards and a modified Jeep Wrangler to the streets, grabbed a few high-fives (one from the NYPD) and around [6 million views on YouTube](<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRv7G7WpOoU>). One mother put her baby on a [tiny, homemade luge course](<https://twitter.com/denotepsu/status/691338831983943682?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>). There were mediocre, [snow-enhanced track & field events](<https://www.instagram.com/p/BA7vGOxDBCi/>); there were [tiny trampolines launching men into snowblivion](<https://www.instagram.com/p/BA5MkxaFap4/>).

Yet, beyond all this amateur creativity and nonsense, one man reigned supreme. Though he was not part of the American East Coast’s powdery deluge, [Laszlo Bajzat, a Hungarian firefighter](<https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03gjv3k?ocid=socialflow_twitter>), made do with a frozen lake and broke the world record for longest distance swum under ice. This week, guided by a rope, Laszlo swam 27 meters, around 88.5 feet, under a dark sheet of lake ice. Because Hungary is a part of Eastern Europe, and has picked up some of the region’s delightful crazy, Laszlo swam without no protective equipment beyond typically small European trunks.

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**Kovesdisport**

On the more epic, though unfortunately tragic, end of things is explorer Henry Worsley, a former lieutenant colonel in the British Army. [Worsley died ](<https://shackletonsolo.org/>)yesterday in a Chilean hospital after nearly completing a 1,000 mile trek across Antarctica. Sixty-six days into a voyage modeled after Shackleton’s unfinished 1915 attempt, the British Explorer, who was suffering from a bad infection, called for evacuation. He was a mere 30 miles from completing what many see as an impossible journey—doubly so unassisted. Before his death, Worsley raised 100,000 English pounds for a charity that supports wounded veterans.

Even the silliest leap into a snowbank bespeaks the human spirit for adventure and wind-chapped cheeks. It’s good to remember that some folks are indulging theirs on a scale that won’t fit within the confines of an iPhone lens.

## Author
Ben Keeshin is a former staff writer for Maxim, and before that, contributed writing to the digital sides of Road & Track and Vanity Fair.

### Author social links  
[Twitter](<https://twitter.com/BnKshn>)