http://danielrm26.disqus.com/dmiessler.com/about/enTue, 17 Mar 2009 16:50:45 -0000http://dmiessler.com/blog/the-best-piece-of-writing-about-freezing-to-death-that-youll-ever-read#comment-7298800<p>god would have just let the guy die…</p>JonTue, 17 Mar 2009 16:50:45 -0000http://dmiessler.com/blog/the-best-piece-of-writing-about-freezing-to-death-that-youll-ever-read#comment-7209988<p>A tale about survival, and death, in the frozen environment by Jack London.</p><p><a href="http://www.jacklondons.net/buildafire.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="http://www.jacklondons.net/buildafire.html">http://www.jacklondons.net/...</a></p><p>An imperative piece of reading for most young men. It gave me the sense of understanding that to attempt something in the face of severe adversity is godlike. (London's like that.)</p><p>Once, I included a short piece referencing "To Build a Fire", as a drunk dying in a snowbank watching two men do battle with swords, seeing them as celestial bodies colliding, while hidden by a group of trees, numb to his fate by the liquor and the killing chill.</p><p>Having personally suffered from hypothermia four years ago at the camp below Halfdome in Yosemite, while nursing a fire all night, amongst people and in a space that should be comfortable, I can say that I don't know how our 19th century Michiganian ancestors withstood the subfreezing temperatures on a daily basis. (Of course, I was hiking like a maniac all the day prior, and I was fresh to the elevation.)</p><p>I've picked up a few copies of Outside magazine. Great stuff!</p><p>-=T=-</p>cooperatiSat, 14 Mar 2009 05:11:26 -0000