That doesn't mean you shouldn't try to improve and push your limits, but do so only after you've had the necessary instruction. One other point-ski areas rate their runs in different ways. Hypothermia Hypothermia can kill you if you're unprepared. The gradual lowering of the body's core temperature is often associated with raging blizzards and treks to the North Pole. However, hypothermia is more likely to hit in relatively mild weather, when an unprepared skier gets stuck high on the mountain in an unexpected wet snowfall with inadequate clothing.
Symptoms can progress from mild to uncontrollable shivering as the body tries to warm itself.
Victims become fatigued, lose their sense of time and distance and gradually become so confused that they make irrational choices, like abandoning gloves or parkas. When shivering stops, a sense of profound apathy takes over and many victims die, unable to find their way to safety or perform simple survival tasks like starting a fire. Here are a few steps to stop this killer. The moment your body begins to loose heat faster than it produces it, you are undergoing exposure. Then you start shivering.