frostbite
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As Thrall went down, he found a Polish climber who was struggling after running out of supplementary oxygen and had suffered frostbite.
From Barron's ● Jun. 4, 2026
"Or do I help my fellow climber, who's got no oxygen, frostbite in his fingers, and obviously you're never far off hypothermia up there?"
From Barron's ● Jun. 4, 2026
They were outdoors working from dawn to dusk, and many ended up with frostbite on their hands and feet.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 13, 2026
There were constant hazards to be wary of, from polar bears to frostbite and cold-weather dehydration.
From BBC ● Apr. 12, 2026
He had lost both ears and a finger to frostbite, and he dressed all in black, the same as a brother of the Night's Watch, except that his furs were ragged and greasy.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
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"We are managing his frostbites, cold injuries, hydration and trauma. He is being further evaluated and will be in our ICU."
From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2026
Second-and third-degree frostbites are treated like burns; sometimes victims are hospitalized.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The living wildlings Jon sent off to have their wounds and frostbites tended.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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We slept hour after hour, ate a little, tended our frostbites, inflammations, and bruises, mindspoke, slept again.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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So bitter was the cold that, though thus actively employed, the noses and cheeks of all the men were white by frostbites.
From Notable Voyagers From Columbus to Nordenskiold by Kingston, William Henry Giles
In other words, “North Country” seems to be a waxing philosophical in the “True Detective” tradition, but the end-of-the-earth environs inspire thoughts that are tied more to Indigenous myths and frostbit hallucinations.
From New York Times ● Jan. 21, 2024
“The Cro-Magnon” look, he calls it — wide forehead, frostbit eyes, a chin so square it must make mathematicians swoon.
From New York Times ● Jun. 14, 2018
His frostbit ears are still sensitive today, 50 years later.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 25, 2017
“I didn’t bite you once! You can keep your underdrawers. Gawdalmighty, them pants is wet, ain’t they? You ain’t frostbit, are you?”
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
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Next morning the ends of my toes were so frostbit by the extreme cold of the country, that I could no longer go barefooted.
It appears that frostbiting has not changed much in 340 years.
From Time Magazine Archive
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To the roaring fire set, frostbiting would seem a study in self-torture.
From Time Magazine Archive
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"There are lots of fancy ideas about the motivation for starting frostbiting," says Knapp.
From Time Magazine Archive
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We started facing a very keen, frostbiting wind.
From Scott's Last Expedition Volume I by Scott, Robert Falcon
Although frostbitten and thoroughly spent, Hillary Dawa could still sit upright and talk to those who found him, before he was airlifted to a hospital in Kathmandu, Nepal's capital.
From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2026
Here on these frostbitten plains, the adults are tired and the children are stoic little beings who crunch around in the snow with the same hassles as everyone else.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2025
“When you get down to people who get really frostbitten and really at risk of losing digits, it’s pretty uncommon,” Dr. Stockbridge said.
From New York Times ● Feb. 24, 2024
One particular tale from “Chinese Menu” tells of how dumplings once apparently cured a village’s frostbitten ears.
From Salon ● Feb. 8, 2024
The most important medical task that faced them was Blackborrow’s frostbitten toes.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
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