Don Kardong Quotes

It is so cold out there, my head nearly fell off.

I just know that I could never spend a winter in Chicago or some place like that. I'm just not a cold weather person.

We have had a very severe frost and deep snow this month. My thermometer was one day fourteen degrees and a half below the freezing point, within doors.

Colder by the hour, more dead with every breath.

The scholarly authorities on freezing to death seem to be, unsurprisingly, Canadians.

I'd just as soon freeze to death.

Cold! If the thermometer had been an inch longer we'd all have frozen to death!

I cannot feel my legs from the waist down any longer. But who cares? I look good and that's all that matters. And when I die of hypothermia for wearing formal shorts in winter, tell them to put that on my tombstone.

In the story I eventually called 'Archangel' and published in 2008, Eudora MacEachern, working as an assistant to a surgeon at a hospital in Archangel, one night finds outside the gates an exhausted and frostbitten soldier crouched over the reins of a pony sleigh carrying the body of another soldier.

There can be no possible question that cold is felt much more keenly in the thin air of nineteen thousand feet than it is below.

Having glue stuck to your face in winter is not fun. It freezes as it hits the skin.

The weather became so intensely cold that we sent for all the hunters who had remained out with captain Clarke's party, and they returned in the evening several of them frostbitten.

When I went to Everest, I underestimated things. I just didn't know what altitude could do. Or the cold - I especially didn't appreciate the cold. It can be just debilitating, and things can happen so quickly.

Know how to treat frostbite until you can get indoors.

Man dies of cold, not of darkness.

Weather can kill you so fast. The first priority of survival is getting protection from the extreme weather.

What's the nastiest injury I've sustained? Just a frostbitten toe... but thankfully it's still intact.

The unfortunate soldiers were in want of everything; they had neither coats, hats, shirts, nor shoes, their feet and legs froze till they became black, and it was often necessary to amputate them

Watching a documentary with people hacking their way through some polar wasteland is merely a visual. Actually trying to deal with cold that can literally kill you is quite a different thing.

I shot a lingerie campaign in Munich once during the winter, and it was actually snowing. At one point, my body literally turned blue, and we had to stop for 20 minutes to get my temperature back to normal. I kept telling myself, 'Try not think about the cold,' but that's extremely hard when you feel like your toes are about to fall off.

I will never understand how so many young women can go out in the freezing cold wearing so little clothing.

It drove me crazy, Scotland. It was cold. It was abuse. It was snowing and everything. I was so cold that one day I faked an injury to go to the locker room.

There is something addictive in space that makes you want to go back - like the mountain climbers who want to go back to the Himalayas although their fingers were cut by frostbite.

God, I've frozen my ass off painting snow scenes!

The cold, inconsiderate of persons, tingles your blood, benumbs your feet, freezes a man like an apple.