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STARTING YOUNG

Lola Bird

In the Siberian Yenisei, young children swim the ice floes with their parents from as young as they can handle the biting cold. In the Peruvian Amazonia, children teach their younger siblings to swim. Children have always been drawn to wild water, but they’ve only recently had the chance to try it as a sport.

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