Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The sauna is heated with smoke, which is released before guests enter, in Estonia. Tõnu Runnel/Brand Estonia/dpa-tmn The room is ...

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Every year, in early spring, the small southern Estonian town Otepää, which is also known as the country's winter sports capital, sees the number of its saunas double or even triple for a weekend.

First you spend three minutes in a sauna, then you jump into ice-cold water. Then you do it again - for about three hours. That was the challenge Saturday at the European Sauna "Marathon" in Estonia.

OTEPÄÄ, Estonia — A sharp hiss filled the room as a competitor ladled four cups of water over a hot pile of black sauna rocks. Steam spiraled above our heads. Calm set in — briefly. Three minutes were ...

If you asked me if I’d like to go back to any place in the world right now, without hesitation I’d say Mooska Farm in southern Estonia. I’d take you by the hand into its dark, smoky, timber sauna ...

Estonia’s Oscar submission is the debut feature by Anna Hints, who won the directing award in Sundance’s World Cinema Documentary Competition. By Sheri Linden Senior Copy Editor/Film Critic At the ...