I got in a pretty bad state when in the Southern Alps in New Zealand, we had been away from the camp since 7 am, we planned to be back for 11:00 but things changed. I didn’t have too much food with me only a tracker bar as I remember, we were walking though snow then climbing hard for 2 hours, I then found myself sitting without moving on a exposed ridge for ¾ of a hour in a strong wind. Coming back down all I wanted to do was sit down and go to sleep. I managed to reach the bottom next to a stream by now it was 15:00, the lad with me had half a packet of Chocolate chip cookies, I scoffed them down had a good drink from the stream, my hands were so cold he swapped gloves with me and this warmed my hands, after this I felt a bit better. Within an hour I was OK again.

Not sure what was wrong with me, maybe some of the doc’s on here might have a guess, early signs of hyperthermia? Low sugar level?

I don’t know.

ATB

Tahr