Surfers don’t just gather in California and Cornwall. A few tough men have made a habit of surfing at Torö, an island off the coast of Sweden. Among them is the photographer Daniel Månsson, who captures some frozen moments. Text by Isabel Lloyd.
Pictured: Johan Cargelius, a pioneer of surfing at Torö, wears a 7mm-thick wetsuit in winter. He claims not to suffer from the dual curses of the cold-water surfer: neither “ice-cream headache”—vivid, neuralgic pain at the front of the face—nor surfer’s ear, where bone grows over the eardrum in an attempt to protect it from continual dousing. “But two of my friends have had their ears drilled,” he says, nonchalantly.
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