Ice Man

Wim Hof (born April 20, 1959, Sittard) is a Dutch man, commonly nicknamed Iceman. He holds nine world records including a world record for longest ice bath. In 2007, he attempted, but failed, to climb Mount Everest wearing nothing but shorts.[ Hof has been criticized for his stated justifications for this attempt, "Edmund Hillary's ascent of Mount Everest was a testament to human achievement, my climb of Mount Everest in my shorts will be a monument to the frivolous, decadent nature of modern society."

Wim broke his previous world record by staying for 1 hour 13 minutes and 48 seconds immersed in ice at Guinness World Records 2008. The night before, he performed the act on the Today Show. Dr. Kenneth Kamler monitored the event to explain the effects of using the Tantric practice Tummo to control your body temperature. Tummo has been practiced by Yogi monks in Tibet. Apparently Wim is the only known non-monk to have mastered Tummo. Wim describes his ability to withstand extreme cold temperatures as being able to turn his own thermostat up by using his brain.

Wim Hof has recently broken the ice endurance record by standing fully immersed in ice for 1 hour and 31 minutes in Lelystad in May 2008.


In February 2009, Wim Hof reached the top of Mount Kilimanjaro in his shorts within 2 days. It took him only another 2 days to climb down.

His next challenge will be to do a marathon of 50 kilometres above the polar circle filmed by an English from firecrackerfilms, who work for both BBC and National Geographic.

He has four children with his late wife, and one child with his present girlfriend.

He Can't get Fat !!!!

EAT your heart out – because this is a man who can scoff what he likes but never puts on an ounce of weight.

John Perry, 59, has a rare condition that makes his body rapidly burn off fat.

He regularly gulps down Chinese takeaways, chips, bars of chocolate, fruit pies, treacle tart and clotted cream.

Yet the 6ft 1in security guard’s weight stays rock steady at 11st 12lb.

John’s condition, called total body lipodystrophy, is caused by high levels of insulin that would normally be fatal.

If a drugs company can work out how his body deals with the hormone it would have the ultimate dieting weapon – and a cure for Britain’s obesity epidemic.

John used to be such a chubby kid that friends even called him “Fatty”.

But then his weight dropped off “almost overnight” when he was 12.

He recalled: “The doctors couldn’t understand what had happened.

"They thought I had a stomach ulcer or wasn’t eating.

“I didn’t like being slim at first. As a teenager playing football I was so thin I got embarrassed taking my shirt off.

Treacle

“I used to eat loads of chocolate to try and put on weight but I couldn’t.”

John endured a decade of tests before his illness was diagnosed. His body produces six times the normal level of insulin.

He was presented to the Royal Society of Medicine where 40 docs were told: “Take a good look, this is the only example of this condition you will ever see in your medical career.”

Grub ... John loves junk food

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John, from Ilford, Essex, said: “I love junk food, chips and chocolate.

I love fruit pies and usually have those every day, or treacle tart. But the hormone means I don’t store fat on my body.”

Dr Barbara Baucher, who diagnosed his condition, called it the “slimmer’s dream” and contacted pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline.

The firm said: “This is a very interesting case.” John adds: “I’d like my legacy to be helping to cure obesity.”