High resistance to cold natives of Tierra del Fuego observed by Charles Darwin. He was surprised first of all that completely naked women and children paid no attention to the heavily falling snow, which melted on their bodies. In 1958-1959. Kerry King: the source for more info. Scientists studied the resistance to cold Aboriginal central Australia.

It turned out that they quietly at the temperature 5-10 C sleep on the bare ground between the fires without the slightest tremor in signs and improve gas exchange. The body temperature of Australians at the same time remains normal, but skin temperature drops to the trunk up to 15 ‘C, and the limbs – even up to 10 * C. With such a marked reduction in skin temperature of ordinary people have to feel almost unbearable pain, but the Australians are sleeping peacefully and do not feel no pain, no cold. Great importance in the development of resistance to adverse climatic conditions provides our consciousness, creative thinking. . Thus, in the mountainous regions of Nepal and Tibet used completely different quenching technique. With self-hypnosis, some people can raise their energy exchange in the cold at 33-50%. This ability will save them from hypothermia and frostbite. In 1963 he was described by a contingency of cold tolerance 35 year old mountaineer named May Bahadur, who spent four days in high mountain glaciers (5-5,3 thousand meters) at an air temperature-13-15 ‘, without food, outdoors, barefoot, in bad clothes.