... about 30 years back while on active duty we were participating in a Naval exercise in one of the Norwegian Fjords'. The staff doctor was a Naval flight surgeon and he was the first person who made the comment to me that "you aren't dead until you're warm and dead", while discussing cold water survival and hypothermia.

30 years later... My thinking is that the responders in the case at hand knew that if they gave up before she warmed up they would have failed; once you start you don't stop. This woman is fortunate she had a team of responders to keep her alive from the snow to the hospital and that the team in the hospital was ready. I don't think it was because she's a looker; I think there was a group dynamic at work and this effort will rewrite the book.