Quotes from Buck Tilton

All tanning should be considered visible evidence of toxic injury.

Trip plans should include the following: 1. Guidelines for how to respond to emergency and nonemergency situations. 2. Lost person and technical rescue protocols. 3. Special instructions for serious injury, illness, or a fatality. 4. Resource lists—such as rescue services—with names, addresses, and telephone numbers. 5. Maps with roadheads and locations of nearest phones marked.

Human biochemistry works at its best at around 98 degrees F, and while adaptation to living in and visiting different environments is possible, from the Mojave to the moon, adaptation to altered body core temperatures is not possible.

In addition to internal heat production, the human body can absorb a small amount of heat from external sources, such as the sun, a fire, another warm body, the ingestion of hot drinks, and the inhalation of warm air.

Of the two environmental temperature extremes, heat and cold, the human body is better adapted to deal with heat. With virtually hairless skin filled with abundant sweat glands, powered by a cardiovascular system of marvelous endurance, humans function well when the mercury rises. You are not, however, a foolproof design. Overheating can ruin your day—and your life.

Was the attack provoked? Rabid animals tend to attack without provocation. Trying to pick up or feed a wild animal and having it take a nip out of your finger is a very natural and unsuspect action. Having it leap from the shadows at your throat is an unprovoked and suspect attack.

Long a medical mystery (and still to some degree today), headaches have been blamed on such factors as wimpishness, psychological disorders, repressed emotions, demons, mothers-in-law, red wine, old cheese, and bad karma.