Ice surfers skating across the frozen Baltic Sea off the coast of Helsinki. — SAM KINGSLEY/AFP
What to do if you are a windsurfing enthusiast in a country where the sea freezes over for months of the year?
For a group of Finns, the answer is to kit out sailboards with skates and take to the ice, reaching speeds of up to 100m per hour in a burgeoning sport that can only be practised in a handful of places around the world.
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