The hospital held her.

And then she went home.

She was warm.

And the warmth, after everything, was enough.

The Standard That Her Case Helped Set

In modern wilderness medicine and emergency medicine curricula, the teaching of hypothermia management includes a set of principles that were, in 1980, not universally established.

Among the most important of these principles is the one that guided Dr.

Sather’s treatment of Jean Hilliard: “No one is dead until they are warm and dead.”