More than a thousand people in Alaska have dressed up as elves or other elaborate costumes while some stripped down to barely anything to take part in a freezing polar plunge.
The fundraiser for Special Olympics Alaska took place at Goose Lake in Anchorage, where ice had been cut out of a large portion of the lake to allow the plungers room to do their favourite dive, like a cannonball. Other more timid plungers stepped into the freezing water, and others got a helping hand from fellow jumpers.
More than $US300,000 was raised and Special Olympics Alaska president Jim Balamaci said more than $US2 million has been raised in the eight years the polar plunge has been held.
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