frostbite

The claims, for which Homeland Security spent $96 million, show detainees were treated for a wide variety of conditions, including strokes, pregnancy, suicide attempts and frostbite.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

He continued to descend alone for what he estimated to be about 50-100m before he came across another member of their group, a "Polish climber with no oxygen, battling fairly severe frostbite".

From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2026

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

He suffered frostbite on his right hand and foot.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 1, 2026

We would instantly become more vulnerable to HAPE, HACE, hypothermia, impaired judgment, and frostbite.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer

"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

The living wildlings Jon sent off to have their wounds and frostbites tended.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

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

Three outside passengers died of the cold when one of the stage coaches reached Chippenham, and frostbites were innumerable.

From The Bath Road History, Fashion, & Frivolity on an Old Highway by Charles G. (Charles George) Harper

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

Next morning the ends of my toes were so frostbit by the extreme cold of the country, that I could no longer go barefooted.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 01 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Robert Kerr

"There are lots of fancy ideas about the motivation for starting frostbiting," says Knapp.

From Time Magazine Archive

To the roaring fire set, frostbiting would seem a study in self-torture.

From Time Magazine Archive

It appears that frostbiting has not changed much in 340 years.

From Time Magazine Archive

We started facing a very keen, frostbiting wind.

From Scott's Last Expedition Volume I by Robert Falcon Scott

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

One particular tale from “Chinese Menu” tells of how dumplings once apparently cured a village’s frostbitten ears.

From Salon ● Feb. 8, 2024

Inside, Mr. Coyner’s shoes were soaking wet, his feet so frostbitten he was hobbling with pain when he tried to stand up.

From New York Times ● Apr. 28, 2023

Despite McNish building a new boat on the pack ice with frostbitten hands, he was denied the Polar Medal because he had fallen out with Shackleton.

From BBC ● Feb. 20, 2023

He was up to his old pranks, sending a group of frostbitten horsemen on a wild-goose chase all over Boston in search of nonexistent “bull’s wool” socks.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand