{"id":1083,"date":"2008-03-12T08:35:48","date_gmt":"2008-03-12T13:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/12\/the-iceman-not-the-top-gun-kind\/"},"modified":"2008-03-12T08:35:48","modified_gmt":"2008-03-12T13:35:48","slug":"the-iceman-not-the-top-gun-kind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/12\/the-iceman-not-the-top-gun-kind\/","title":{"rendered":"The Iceman – Not the Top Gun kind"},"content":{"rendered":"

I saw a link on Neatorama the other day that I thought was especially appropriate for Nikki (who is always cold<\/a>, no matter what the temperature is). It’s about a guy who can apparently withstand cold<\/a> that would kill anyone else, and we aren’t talking about a little cold here, we are talking about chest deep in ice-water for over an hour with nothing on. He climbed Mount Everest dressed in a pair of shorts. That’s it. Crap. He is a living, breathing super-hero, really. This guy is hard core, I can’t imagine how he does it. The scientists are practially speechless:<\/p>\n

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“People are always looking for new firsts on Everest. It’s been climbed so many times now, people climb it without oxygen, they \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 they climb it with all different kinds of handicaps. But no one has come close to climbing Everest in those kinds of conditions,” Dr. Kamler said. “It’s \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 it’s almost inconceivable.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It’s a good read, I recommend you check it out. Imagine the money I could save on winter clothing and heating the house if I could figure out how to do that….. You wouldn’t need clothes at all, actually. Well, maybe just for social reasons. He may be the Iceman, but I bet there’s no amount of willpower that can stop shrinkage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I saw a link on Neatorama the other day that I thought was especially appropriate for Nikki (who is always cold, no matter what the temperature is). It’s about a guy who can apparently withstand cold that would kill anyone … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piGNU-ht","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}