Please could you tell me what it is like and what the symptoms are. Miss N Rabaste Hi, I am a National Ski Patroller and am currently working at Mcmurdo Station Antarctica. Simply stated frostbite occures when a part of your body freezes.
Symptoms start with a redness of the skin and continues to a white color.
Mild frostbite, on the face, must be rewarmed immediately by getting inside or covering it with your hand until you get inside. Particularly if you are out hiking you must not remove your boots to warm your feet. If you do this your feet will swell and you will not be able to put your boots back on and you will not be able to walk as it will be too painful. When severe frostbite warms, the frozen parts swell up and turn black. Have you ever gotten your hands really cold and then warmed them by running warm water over them, it hurts.