Can You Hack -120c in Shorts and a Vest?

The Sunday Telegraph London (November 19, 2006)

Author: James Wallman

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Aquacity, slovakia

THE first place I feel it is in the backs of my heels. Cold. Very cold. Then my thighs. Every hair follicle on my legs snaps to attention. This isn't just normal cold though. It's Siberian chilly. Antarctically nippy. In fact, it's colder than that. It's -120C. And I'm in little more than my underpants.

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Can You Hack -120c in Shorts and a Vest?

"Cryotherapy. That's the thing Americans do when they die, isn't it?'' my grandfather had said. "They deep freeze the bodies for a hundred years and then wake them up again.''

That, I pointed out, is cryogenics. For dead people. This is cryoth...

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