• AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    They’ll both kill ya, it’s just that the cold is more likely to get to you first if you’re unprepared. If you’re prepared then the bear will have a nice wrapped meal.

    • Uriel238 [all pronouns]
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      7 months ago

      As the bodies on Mount Everest shows us, it’s easy to not be prepared for the levels of cold it can get in some places on earth such as the poles.

      Fun trivia: In To Build A Fire which takes place in the Yukon, Jack London notes that it’s -70°

      This is to say, the secret ending is that the dog didn’t make it (or did only by a miracle of probability).