As a result of the sudden change in body temperature of a person who is about to freeze to death, that is, who has hypothermia, the blood circulation becomes unbalanced and even comes to a standstill. Therefore, the functioning of organs, especially the brain, slows down considerably.
For the heart to stop and death to occur, it is enough to drop to 32 degrees. However, the people you will soon meet have performed miracles by continuing to live even though their body temperatures are below minus degrees.
Here are the people who miraculously escaped freezing to death:
A woman stiffened: Jean Hillard
In December 1980, a young 19-year-old girl named Jean Hillard was driving her father’s car on the snowy and icy roads of Minnesota on a very cold night on her way home. The car without anti-brake crashed on an icy road and fell into a ditch. Hillard, who survived the accident with minor abrasions, started walking, remembering that a friend’s house was a short distance away. Hillard didn’t realize how cold the air was, perhaps -6 degrees from the shock of the accident, but it was freezing. Despite this, he managed to get as far as his friend’s door and collapsed in front of the door. His friend only noticed him the next day, and Hillard’s body temperature had dropped to -30 degrees Fahrenheit. They immediately went to the hospital.
His friend rightly thought that Hillard wouldn’t be able to come back to life, and that’s where things started to get weird: Hillard was alive, despite freezing for 22 hours. After arriving at the hospital, everyone was hopeless, including the doctors, but Hillard was slowly regaining consciousness. This event was talked about for days as a miracle. The reason for this situation was that Hillard had alcohol in his body and the freezing point of the organs decreased with the effect of alcohol, as it turned out later.
Miracle baby: Erika Nordby
How long can a 1-year-old baby withstand -24 degrees cold with just a T-shirt and diaper? There is an unusual example of the answer to this question: Erika Nordby.
Erika and her 26-year-old mother, Leyla Nordby, were spending a February evening at her friend’s house. Leyla and her friend called a relative at night to look after Erika and went out. When they got home, the caretaker came out through the unlocked back door. Leyla, who slept later, woke up at 3 am and realized that her baby Erika was not in her bed at the time she was supposed to sleep. Leyla frantically looked around and saw footprints in the snow, and when she followed she saw her daughter Erika sleeping in the snow.
Leyla took her daughter in her arms and carried her home. Erika was rushed to the hospital because there was no change despite first aid, and the hospital team thought she was dead. After showing no vital signs, Erika performed a miracle with her baby body and her heart started beating. There was also the possibility of permanent damage to her hands and arms, but Erika overcame this with physical therapy methods. Erika is still referred to as the ‘Miracle Baby’ even now.
Miracle in the clouds: Ewa Wisnerska
German parachutist Ewa Wisnerska decided to train for the 2007 world paragliding championship in Australia despite the weather reports learning that there was thunder and heavy rain on February 14, 2007, and of course the accident did not say she was coming: Ewa was inside a high current cloud responsible for heavy rain. pulled right. The temperature dropped to -50 degrees after a while, and under normal conditions, it was not possible for a person in this condition to survive.
Ewa passed out, unable to get oxygen, and thus passed out. After a while, he regained consciousness, but this time he could not control his parachute as his hands and gloves were frozen. Again he was dragged into a cloud. Finally it landed on the ground. After all, Ewa had no problems other than minor injuries to her ears. He was discharged from the hospital after only one hour. It was truly a miracle that he survived.
Top love: Beck Weathers
Perhaps the dream of every mountaineer is to climb Mount Everest, the summit of the world. On May 10, 1996, 49-year-old mountaineer Beck Weathers attempted to climb Everest with a group to realize his dream. Before climbing, Beck had surgery to treat his nearsighted eyes. It was an operation performed by making incisions on the cornea. Because of this, Beck’s eyes suffered from deformity due to the deformation of the cornea during climbing. Their guides on the team said that Beck should no longer continue and wait where they left off until they return, but the guide got stuck on a rock on the way and died.
After a while, with the increasing storm, Beck and his friends set out to return. The storm was so fierce that on top of that, Beck lost his glove, and his hands began to freeze. Beck soon began to experience hypothermia and intense oxygen-deficient hypoxia. Unable to advance with the team due to the storm, Beck was dragged into the snow. The next day, some climbers found Beck buried in the snow, but Beck was suffering from a hypothermic coma and no climber had ever recovered from it. Other climbers left because they thought he was dead, but then a miracle was happening. Although part of his arms, face and feet were sadly amputated, Beck continued to live.
Treasure found: Stella Berndtsson
On December 23, 2010, a seven-year-old girl named Stella Berndtsson decides to play the game of finding hidden treasure on the map she has drawn and leaves her home in Sweden to find the treasure. After a while, her family, who realized that Stella was lost, organized to search with the neighbors and started to search in the air where the temperature dropped to -12 degrees.
His father, Peter, saw the footprints leading to the cliff in the backyard and noticed that the tracks had gone all the way to the shore, and alerted the helicopter, fisherman, and coast guard response team. When the helicopter took off, it found Stella’s body above the water. Her heart had stopped, and so both the doctors and her family thought Stella was dead. Doctors nevertheless began to warm Stella’s body and brought her back to life exactly 12 hours later. Stella Berndtsson still holds the record for having the lowest body temperature ever recorded.
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