The air makes your lungs crackle and burn when you breathe it in too fast or hard.. icicles hang off your eyelids from your own perspiration after awhile and get frozen in place
That has got to be a life-affirming experience. I mean, we humans were not meant to endure temperatures like that. When we do, it's basically cheating death.
I would think that besting nature at that level must make you appreciate the most basic things about your existence.
I've never experienced cold that deep in all my life, so I have no reality on it at all.
I must have thick skin or sumthin’;-). One of the rare cases where my life experience matches my usual habit for hyperbole, as it does many others as well.
Most of it spent as a kid growing up in Minniesoda.. we had some good weather and we had some cold weather, Thank goodness not every year,, I’ll leave that kind of living to the True Northerners up North in Canada and beyond,,
I never took to mountaineering so I can only imagine what the sensations are of slowly freezing as you climb higher and higher.