Media coverage

its a problem if you know you're close to shelter, you want to keep going and get to the shelter.. sometimes the situation gets to where you need stop asap if you're getting hypothermic, seek shelter immediately and get warm. hypothermia can develop and debilitate people very rapidly. Ideally you should have some sort of shelter with you, and a spare change of dry clothes and a dry sleeping bag to get into... get food into you, ideally warm food but eat something cold straight away to make sure you have a supply of energy for your body. once hypothermia gets to a certain stage it gets exacerbated by movement, when you get the umbles. you're stumbling, mumbling and fumbling, you need to stop walking or running and sort out shelter asap.. problem is , as hypothermia advances you dont make good decisions, and you can become dogmatic and irational. I've had hypothermia, and when i had it, i couldn't give a stuff about what it did to look after myself. enough of my brain new i was in trouble and i forced myself to take action, because training had told me the consequences of not doing so would be serious or even fatal. you can see in this video, extreme as it is, that three minutes in, after being dunked in ice water, the survival instructors waste no time in dealing with the scenario and get very forceful in taking immediate action to stop hypothermia from taking over. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Id5USBHTzmY

more detailed information about Hypothermia and treating it. http://media.wix.com/ugd/faab9f_7530bbdb597e447e953ce7ffb340a2da.pdf https://www.outsideonline.com/1926316/freezing-persons-recollect-snow%E2%80%94first-chill%E2%80%94then-stupor%E2%80%94then-letting-go

The scenario I've always dwelt upon most is being wet (hopefully just feet and hardshell pants and jacket), heavy rain and wind, and for whatever reason you're forced to try and bivy exposed to the elements (obviously doing your best to get in a windbreak is a priority). Getting out of your wet clothes, into dry ones and into your sleeping bag, bivy bag and bedroll without getting all your dry stuff wet in the process could be very challenging. If your bivy bag is big enough you could maybe get changed inside it, but then you will wet the lining, which will wet the sleeping bag.