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I know I've posted here in the past about my experiences with hypothermia (I'm an Eagle scout with lots of winter camping experience, former mountaineering guide and have also done wilderness search and rescue) and I will try to dig up my old post on hypothermia, but it boils down to: people can become hypothermic quickly and without realizing it, and hypothermic people will often act completely irrationally and do absolutely insane things (e.g. take off their remaining clothing).
Without knowing anything further about this guy's case in particular, I'd say the first and most significant mistake he made was not having a buddy.
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Grant
In the stable: 1938 Buick Special model 41, 1963 Solex 2200, 1973 Vespa Primavera 125, 1974 Vespa Rally 200, 1986 VW Vanagon Syncro Westfalia, 1989 VW Doka Tristar, 1995 Toyota Land Cruiser, 2011 Pursuit 315 OS, 2022 Tesla Y
Gone but not forgotten: 1973 VW Beetle, 1989 Porsche 944, 2008 R56 Mini Cooper S
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