Yes, I think I have seen that one as well...and it reinforces the mantra of taking action 'before' you feel cold. Hypothermia is our biggest killer here in New Zealand...yet a lot of people underestimate its risk, most people believe that they can take remedial steps once they are cold and lets face it, they often do and get away with it, but if you risk enough times...it will get you.

I have also been amazed at how debilatating the cold can be, the thing that makes me think, is during the cooling process is how the body shuts down its extremities to protect the core (internal organs and brain) which means that the very tools, one would need to remedy the situation i.e. hands etc have just been disabled. this would be then worsed by the fact that you are still ok in the brain but powerless to stop the demise. If you are slurring and making mental mistakes...then your brain is cooled...and death is not far away.

Speaking of that, there was another article about hypothermia induced death...that blew me away. It was about a female doctor skiing in Norway who fell through some ice and effectively drowned, but also got super-cooled by the rushing water underneath. The interesting facts that while she effectively died - the did resusitate her from a very cold core temp of around 13 degrees C until she was back to normal of 36.6...(from your medic knowledge - not dead until warm and dead paid dividends) as she was alive. To cut this thread short, it took her a year to recover, and has no brain damage or anything like that. The reason that it took a year was that the cold killed all her nerves so it took a year for them to grow back so she could move again...hard core!