People who can exist at low temperatures that would quickly kill ordinary people

[astro]

Amazing article - Evolutionary mutants or possessors of amazing mental control of thier bodies? Either way it’s astounding!

Hof made the expedition in shorts.

“It was quite easy,” Hof said. “I was in a snowstorm before, say, on the fifteen, sixteen thousand feet up 'til eighteen thousand feet.”

“I know my body, I know my mind, I know what I can do,” Hof said. And he says he can withstand heat as well as cold.

Nearly Naked, Surrounded by Ice
Dr. Kamler met Hof for the first time at the Rubin Museum in New York, where Hof was set to break another Guinness World Record, this time for remaining nearly naked in ice poured up to his neck.

Hof came out of the museum, stripped to his swim trunks and climbed in a 5-foot tall plexiglass container filled with ice. Once he got in, they poured more ice into the container until it reached his chin.

All the while, Dr. Ken Kamler monitored Hof from outside the tank.
Normally, when a person is exposed to freezing temperatures for a prolonged period of time, the body goes into survival mode, as its liquids begin to freeze.

Frostbite sets in, and in order to save the major organs, the body sacrifices blood flow to the extremities, cutting circulation from the fingers, toes, ears and nose to keep the blood flowing to the organs necessary for survival.

If not treated immediately, the damage to these extremities is irreversible. The other danger is hypothermia, an abnormally low body temperature. At about 90 degrees, body functions start shutting down, and once that starts, you could be dead within minutes.

But Hof stayed in his tomb of ice for one hour and 12 minutes. Then, the ice was poured out of the tank, and Hof emerged, his skin still pink.

“He’s not moving, he’s not generating heat, he’s not dressed for it, and he’s immersed in ice water. And water will transmit heat 30 times faster than air. It literally sucks the life right out of you. And yet, despite all those negative factors, Wim Hof was very calm, very comfortable the entire time that he was immersed in that water,” Kamler said.

[Helen_s_Eidolon]

That’s astounding. I’m cold just thinking about it.

He climbed Everest in SHORTS!

[aruvqan]

HYell, I am snuggled under my comforter, on a heated mattress pad reading this on my laptop [hospital tables rock] and am freezing just thinking about this …

I may have to go take a hot shower to warm up… :eek: <me turning blue with cold>

[Boozahol_Squid_P.I]

And here I was thinking this would be a thread where I could gripe about the other people in my office that for whatever reason like the thermostat at anything above “MAX Cool”

[Maastricht]

That guy is either a mutant, or we need to renew the research into what fakir-like types can do. You know, the types who can cut off blood circulation in part of their body long enough to stick a knife through their chest.

(if such people exist at all and aren’t all fake fakirs, that is)

[Wile_E]

@Diomedes

And here I was thinking this would be a thread where I could gripe about the other people in my office that for whatever reason like the thermostat at anything above “MAX Cool”

Me too. It was in the 60’s(F) outside yesterday and someone kept setting the thermostat to 70 and I’d complain about the cold. She finally confessed she was hot, but she’s been sick for days and she was probably running a fever. Step outside for a minute!

Then there is the other woman who caused our a/c’s to freeze up numerous times by setting it too low and then when it started having problems and wasn’t cooling, setting it even lower. She killed at least one a/c unit that way.

Oh wait, sorry I forgot that this isn’t a thread to complain about those people.
I wonder if the guy in the OP is one of those people who messes with the thermostat?