Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ames.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!zehntel!dual!ames!rieka From: rieka@ames.UUCP (Rieka E. McCain) Newsgroups: net.sci Subject: Re: Wind Chill Factor? Message-ID: <474@ames.UUCP> Date: Mon, 13-Aug-84 17:56:52 EDT Article-I.D.: ames.474 Posted: Mon Aug 13 17:56:52 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 14-Aug-84 05:01:44 EDT References: <244@parallel.UUCP> Organization: NASA-Ames Research Center, Mtn. View, CA Lines: 32 I remember reading a book about Little America (the one at the South Pole, not the town in Wyoming) in which the scientists there, some time in the fifties, empirically derived the wind chill charts and extrapolated the values on out past the point at which the subject would have suffered irrepairable injury (unlike the German WWII experiments on survival time of downed fliers). If anyone is really interested in the subject (now is the time to get those winter survival skills together- before snow falls), I would suggest getting a copy of Mountaineering Medicine or Mountaineering, the freedom of the Hills or hitting up the National Ski Patrol for a copy of the Winter Mount- aineering Handbook. Best of all, Signup for a NSPS winter Mountaineering course and you get a chance to practice what you learn. (survival in the mountains is too important to be left to "I remember reading...") Notice: I am not necessarily advocating that you JOIN the NSPS, as part of their public service type stuff they offer the course to anyone. Even paid professional ski-patrollers and mountaineering guides take their courses... . w . ZZ T a d.