In extreme cold, frostbite or hypothermia can occur outdoors. An expert explains what happens in the body, how you can protect yourself and why it is even possible to freeze at temperatures of ten degrees above freezing.
Time and again people die of cold death, for example in the case of accidents or misconduct in the mountains. Just like a 33-year-old woman from Salzburg who wanted to climb the Großglockner with her boyfriend, the “Krone” reported. Prim. Alexander Egger, chief physician at the Austrian Mountain Rescue Service Federal Association, spoke to Krone+ about when cold becomes dangerous, which fatal combination reduces the chance of survival and how to act correctly in an emergency.
Source: Krone
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