Life inside my laavu at -33c. Weeklong arctic bushcraft trip. (Flash hypothermia / procedures ) 

❤❤❤ Back home already. All good. This time I even had a stove and a fire. Last time it was six weeks of this with a gas cooker. That was hard. Haha. But I was moving all the time, touring on skis, only stopping to eat and sleep in the tent.

I was pretty glad to have that stove.

No suffering here, that was the idea, 🎉❤

Scho krass. 😂🎉👍👍👍

Yep, at a certain combination of cold, humidity and wind, your body just knows it is in mortal peril. Good to be able to notice that in time. 😁 I love it, and totally trust The Cold.

me too! #buttersaves

It happens in the very cold below -20c under heavy exertion with not enough food. Unlike normal hypothermia where your body core cools down slowly and deeply over time, because it is SO cold, you get very cold very quickly, and so there are none of the usual warning signs. No mumbles, stumbles, fumbles, grumbles, etc. Just sudden incapacitation, a turning in on one self, and an inability to get warm without external heat. Finding themselves suddenly unable to do basic tasks and feeling very tired, the person makes the supreme effort, puts up the tent and then does the reasonable thing and just punches out and gets into the sleeping bag, but without a hot drink and still in damp clothes. This means they are unable to warm the sleeping bag. Too exhausted to shiver, having used up thousands of calories, and wet, they go into a deep sleep. People with a Near Death Experience due to flash hypothermia report that they could just choose to leave the body and die or to stay. That the gateway was open for a long time, no hurry to choose, but you could just check out of the body anytime. Diabetics have known life threatening complications with flash hypothermia also.

Thank you, very interesting ! Didn't knew it existed !

You see? Too warm makes a man sick. 👍🌸

The most extreme was alone, no stove, no fire, just me, the tent and a gas cooker, for 6 weeks skiing in the arctic, Hardangervidda plateau. Temps mainly around -20c with a week of -30c to -47c and winds to 55kph. (Beast of the east storm) Skiing the distances with the sled everyday, setting up tent, 4 hours of snow melting and cooking only freeze dried food, then sleep, and packing up in the morning. This trip was 5km from town, I had a stove hot tent, 2 nights of cold, in a gang of 9, with endless fresh food and great weather Much easier.

I had gone there to make a speed record attempt on the Odda-Finse Route, 137km/3700m climb. I was on a training segment with sled and kite when the Beast of the East came in. Wow, that was a weather. 🎉🎉🎉

@@susannewilliams So, in other words this was a picnic compared to what you had already experienced! Remarkable!

The challenges were different. When there is a mixed group there are so many more factors and dynamics involved and things get critical very quickly. Solo, you may have less resources, but you also have less chaos/variables.. 🎉

Thanks mate, they were a hardworking and fun crew! I had an excellent time with one full boss day of skiing just for me when they went into town for provisions. Like it!

It was mate!