You've heard me talk about this before, that hypothermy is not something we only have to worry about in the winter, Dr. Rob Scanlon, to talk to us about hypothermia.

Dr. Scanlon, welcome back.

Thank you for having me back, Martin.

So for those of us who don't know or don't know much about

what hypothermia is, could you give us an, maybe an overview

or a summary of what hypothermia is exactly?

I guess, you know, simplistically hypothermia happens when we lose more body heat than we can either generate or retain.

And then the body weight, the body heat, the body temperature falls below a certain threshold level

where our systems start breaking down and increasingly leads to dysfunction and you know eventually just like anything else you put in the

freezer death and it could be deadly right because you can reach the point of, well, no return, right, where if you don't get the proper medical treatment, it becomes deadly.

Absolutely. I spoke of this when I introduced you. We commonly, and we're going to touch more specifically on winter conditions, but, you know, the myth is you can't get hypothermia in the summer.

Absolutely, Absolutely.

Right, like the summer hikers who's up in the flat irons, Boulder up there doesn't have any kind of rain gear on them. They're in shorts and

t-shirt. They get soaked in a spontaneous rainstorm and then all the

winds that come by just take all the body heat from them and they're just shivering colds, but then it's August, that kind of thing.

Right.

All right. Many of us have been in those situations.

I perspire a lot so myself, I'll get to a summit and all of a sudden I'm feeling chilly.

I'm throwing on the rain jacket because I know I need to preserve my core temperature so I don't enter that state of

hypothermia. Right, right. Rob, what are some of the warning signs?

You know, we know that it's it could be fatal for us.

But what are some of the things we can be looking for early on ourselves as hikers?

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