As I briefly browsed through the story I noticed two mistakes:
1. Kept wearing soaked clothes. - everything should be taken off. Depending on the material you can lose body heat up to 300x faster when clothes are wet.
2. Fought the body's will to shiver. This natural reaction is an attempt to produce heat.
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