Molly Carlson welcomed fear during historic dive off Newfoundland iceberg

In the last year, Molly Carlson has jumped from a moving helicopter into a cage surrounded by sharks, completed her highest dive yet from a 27-metre platform, and, in her latest nerve-defying feat, became the first woman to dive off an iceberg.

Yet, the Canadian high diver will be the first person to tell you she's not, in fact, fearless.

“I don't feel like I've ever conquered fear,” Carlson said. “I've just learned more about it, and I've welcomed it and I have grown with it.”

Carlson lives with fear every day as one of the world’s best in the extreme sport of cliff diving, where she leaps off 21m platforms and performs acrobatics while reaching speeds up to 85 km/h in the air, before landing feet first in the water.

The 28-year-old from Thunder Bay, Ont., is also an influencer with a following of more than eight million across TikTok, Instagram and YouTube, where she built an online community, and company, known as Brave Gang that celebrates all forms of bravery and self-love.

Carlson has shared much of her athletic and personal journey through social media, including her historic iceberg dive, documented in the short film "Red Bull Iceberg Dive," available on YouTube.

The 30-minute documentary details Carlson's preparation for the stunt, including cold-water training and learning to ice climb from fellow Canadian Red Bull athlete Will Gadd, whose accomplishments include ascending a frozen wall on the American side of Niagara Falls. Six months of training led to the moment in June, when Carlson climbed and dove off an estimated 14m iceberg off the coast of Newfoundland into 1 C water.

Carlson said she was keen to take on a challenge that highlighted natural Canada and was partly inspired from watching fellow