Climbers may struggle with hypothermia
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It starts with mumbling and stumbling. Then come violent shivers and then, paradoxically, a false sense of warmth that makes some people strip their clothes off. Eventually, they may curl into a fetal position as their muscles go rigid, their skin goes waxy, and the heart slows down, then stops.
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COOPER SPUR, Ore., Dec. 14 -- One of three stranded climbers lost somewhere amid ice, billowing snow and gale-force winds on Mount Hood has been turning his cellphone on and off, authorities said Thursday, raising hopes for his rescue.
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NEW YORK  - Emergency room doctors are  urging people to protect themselves from winter's deadly  companions, hypothermia and frostbite.
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Time to bust out the hiking boots, grab some sturdy ropes and maybe even hire a Sherpa. The Cleveland Cavaliers have some serious climbing to do. Right now, the San Antonio Spurs tower over them.
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Freezing temperatures early Sunday may have nipped fields and gardens in the central and eastern parts of Utah, but it probably was not the killer frost some had feared.
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Rangers at Yosemite National Park have found the bodies of two Japanese climbers on El Capitan. The pair had been stranded on the rock formation after being caught in an early winter storm.
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The climbers, stranded overnight on Mount Hood amid snow and ferocious winds, were described as cold and roughed up but generally in good shape.
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Rangers completed a dramatic rescue Thursday of two climbers from a snowy mountain and removed the ice-encrusted bodies of two other hikers who died on the
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A German climber died of cold and his British colleague was hospitalised with hypothermia after a night in a storm on Mont Blanc in the French Alps, Italian rescue workers said.
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When reaching the top means using fingernails, ropes, harnesses, a helmet and climbing shoes.
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A pair of climbers who misjudged the weather on Mount Hood and got caught in whiteout conditions were taken to safety Tuesday after spending a night in a snow cave.
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A fascinating new study in the January/February 2007 issue of Physiological and Biochemical Zoology looks at the benefits of huddling vs. solitude, comparing strategies used by striped skunks to get through long, cold winters in northern climates.
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GIRDWOOD, Alaska -- The snow is knee-high along the banks of Crow Creek, where men are crouching up to their chests in near-freezing water, and the air is several degrees colder.
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Another winter, another scare on Oregon's Mt. Hood. As three stranded climbers return safely home, a closer look at the economics of search and rescue.
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HOOD RIVER, Ore., Dec. 16 -- Expert mountaineers tried Saturday to take advantage of easing weather conditions atop Mount Hood in the search for three missing climbers, but the fickle and still-treacherous conditions turned them back.
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People with high blood pressure were warned yesterday that they are at increased risk of having a heart attack in very cold weather.
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A North Pole expedition meant to bring attention to global warming was called off after one of the explorers got frostbite. The explorers, Ann Bancroft and Liv Arnesen, on Saturday called off what was intended to be a 530-mile trek across the Arctic Ocean after Arnesen suffered frostbite in three of her toes, and extreme cold temperatures drained the batteries in some of their electronic equipment.