TWILLINGATE, Newfoundland —

Red Bull just broke another record.

Cliff diver Molly Carlson became the first woman to dive off a free-standing iceberg.

Carlson completed a backwards dive off of a massive, moving chunk of ice off the coast of Twillingate, Newfoundland, Canada, nearly 50 feet above the water. The record event was sponsored by Red Bull and made into a short documentary.

"This is definitely the scariest thing I’ve ever done," Carlson said.

Carlson is an experienced high diver, making the podium at several Red Bull diving events in recent years. The iceberg dive at Twillingate was Carlson's highest backwards dive to date.

One big difference between a regular high dive and Carlson's iceberg dive is that the ice was free-standing, meaning it was not rooted to a landmass.

"Icebergs are incredibly dangerous," Carlson said. "They can split, collapse or roll without warning."

Before she could make the dive, Carlson had to make the climb — meaning she had to learn how to ice climb before even considering diving. She trained, and climbed, with Will Gad, another Red Bull athlete and veteran ice climber.

She also reached out to the first person to jump off an iceberg, fellow Red Bull athlete and cliff diver Orlando Duque. Duque took a dive off an iceberg in Antarctica in 2018.

"I remember messaging him back in 2023, like, 'Was this fun? Should I try to bring this to Canada and be the first woman to dive off an iceberg?'" Carlson recalled. "And he was like, 'Molly, if there's one project that changed my life, it was diving off an iceberg.'"

In addition to having the bravery to jump off an iceberg in the freezing cold, Carlson has also struggled with her mental health and eating disorders. She told CNN in 2023 that she refers to the lowest point in her career as her "mental injury."

"Bravery, though, is not about getting rid of fear, but about not letting it decide what you're capable of," Carlson said.