TED Talks with Chris Burkard | The Joy of Surfing In Ice-Cold Water

“Anything that is worth pursuing is going to require us to suffer, just a little bit,“ says surf photographer Chris Burkard, as he explains his obsession with the coldest, choppiest, most isolated beaches on earth. With jawdropping photos and stories of places few humans have ever seen — much less surfed — he draws us into his “personal crusade against the mundane.“ Follow TED news on Twitter: Like TED on Facebook: Please visit: to see more work, and follow here: FACEBOOK: INSTAGRAM: BLOG: