Hypothermia - Causes, treatment and avoidance

If your core body temperature drops below 35C you will start to shiver, your mood may change, your lips may go blue, you may become clumsy and irrational. 

You have hypothermia...

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It doesn't have to be wintry for hypothermia to be a real risk.

The Glencorbet Horseshoe, 12 Bens, Connemara

Looking towards Bencollaghduff from Benbaun summit, (729 metres)

Glencorbet is at the northern end of the 12 Bens range in Connemara....

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