kboy-
I’ve skied in -24. It’s very cold.
That cold snap in 2017 was the moment I chose to blow out my ACL whilst way off piste. It was close to -30 and I was lying in the snow for about 45 minutes before they started to move me. I'll never forget the feeling of pure euphoria of being inserted into the back of a warm ambulance and being handed two bags of infusion bags of pre-warmed saline to hold on to. It felt like I had double dropped and was coming up.
Although the hero of the story is the member of ski patrol who got to me first and therefore was lumbered with the job of recording all of my medical notes and safety info with a pencil with ungloved hands. His hands looked like they belonged to a dead person by the time he had finished. If somebody had told me he lost fingers, I'd have believed them.
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Stonehedge
I've seen rockfalls from melting permafrost at 3000m in January in recent years. Higher is feeling it too.
In 2017 the Alps had a real cold snap. It was way below -20 in Saas Fee and Zermatt in the villages and way below -30 on the top. The chap we were staying with reckoned it was like that every February in the area when he was a child.