Her skin was hard enough that needles bent against it.

Her temperature was below the range of standard hospital thermometers, which bottom out at temperatures already deep into the hypothermia range.

She had lain in -22 degree temperatures for six hours.

And yet she recovered.

Not partially — largely completely.

She suffered some frostbite damage to her toes, which developed blisters and required some treatment.

But she did not suffer the loss of any toes, fingers, or other extremities that would normally be expected from six hours at such temperatures.

Her kidneys, her heart, her brain — all the organs that should have been at risk from prolonged hypothermia — returned to function.