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> Going on extreme/esoteric retreats: like climbing a snowy mountain this winter in Poland in just a bathing suit. I'm trying to push myself physically in ways I've never done before.

I don't know how tall or remote was this mountain, but a guy I know nearly died (well, technically he was dead for a bit while they reanimated him on the rescue helicopter) running in Polish mountains last winter without a proper clothing.

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Wow. Um...what was his medical condition?

It's hard to tell what really happened, as he has no recollection of the time before the accident. The rescue party, alarmed by his wife, found him laying on the trail, unconscious and in severe hypothermia. The thing is, while he was running in his relatively light running clothes (the whole run was supposed to take only 40 minutes), the weather suddently turned for the worse, with temperature drop and snow fall. Hard to tell if he lost consciousness just because of the cold or if something else was also a factor.

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