Legends brave cold for Queenstown swimming event

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Legend swimmers come off TSS Earnslaw into Lake Wakatipu on Saturday morning. Photo: supplied About 250 swimmers gave new meaning to cold water immersion in Queenstown on Saturday morning, during the fifth annual Whakatipu Legend open water swimming event — about 150 of those leaping from the historic TSS Earnslaw, in Frankton Arm, at dawn to swim 4km back to Queenstown Bay beach.

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