Science of Survival: Frozen Alive Redux
Outside Podcast
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The Effects of the Cold on the Body
The process begins when you remove your gloves to squeeze a loose pin back into one of your ski bindings. The lowest recorded core temperature in a surviving adult is 60.8 degrees. Tibetan Buddhist monks can raise the temperature of their hands and feet by 15 degrees through meditation. Australian aborigines, who once slept on the ground, unclosed on near freezing nights, would slip into a light, hypothermic state until the rising sun re-warm them.
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