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Soulful House on Digitally Imported And still the storm raged around them. By morning, they'd been exposed for hours to Arctic conditions. Amazingly, they were still alive. Geoff struggled through the snow and raised the alarm. It took six hours before the rescue services got to Bill. The cold had left a devastating legacy. During hours of exposure, they'd both suffered winter's vicious touch. I tucked my hat in my shirt and pulled up my clothes and exposed my back and part of my buttocks. I got severe frostbite. There's no feeling, the nerves are gone, there's scar tissue. They did skin grafts, on the back of my legs, twice. My feet, hands, butt, my knees have got it in spots, the calves of my legs from the way I was sitting. My hands were blistered, they were as huge as softballs. Deep frostbite is a one-way process. The cold literally freezes the skin tissue. Ice forms in the fluid in and around the cells. The tiny blood vessels freeze solid and no oxygen is delivered. Worse is to come. With no blood supply, the cells can't fight infection. Gangrene sets in, the affected area becomes black and starts to decompose. At this stage, there's no option but to amputate. After his ordeal in the freezing cold, both Geoff's feet were severely frostbitten. In the end I had skin grafts on my hands, butt and legs. I lost both feet from about four inches above the ankles. A wild weather event like this is rare, unexpected, which is why the cost is so high. The key to survival is to be prepared. Even the professionals can get caught out. In the last years, the Sirius Patrol have lost six men under the ice. Severe frostbite is always a problem, but they know the risks, and their love of this landscape far outweighs the dangers. As the Sirius Patrol travel north into the wilderness, I'm on a different journey, travelling south with the cold that brings winter to the people of the northern hemisphere. I'm going to a place that gets the first blast of winter's icy grip. All that polar wind screaming south is about to crash into the warmer air from the equator. When they meet, all hell breaks loose. In the front line is Mount Washington weather station in north-east America. It's here the battle between hot and cold begins. For now, at least, all is quiet. This is the highest point in the north-eastern United States, though it's not that high on a world scale. It's known as the home of the world's worst weather. The temperature outside is down to minus nine degrees, with a north west at mph. The forecast begins with clouds and snow showers and winds to the west, - mph, but another system will push in from the Great Lakes later. How does a sun-kissed mountain get such a bad reputation? The summit lies in the path of the principal storm tracks and air mass routes that affect the weather in the north east. It's the perfect place to discover what happens when wind and cold combine. Welcome to the home of the world's worst weather. Good to be here. The mountains look good to us today. You should have been here yesterday. I came here to find the worst winds in the world and the weather was perfect! I didn't have to wait long.

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