How to recognise and manage cold injury in UK outdoor settings.
Keeping with last weeks theme on hypothermia, we are now looking at cold injuries.
You’re a couple of hours into a winter day outside.
Nothing dramatic — just wind, drizzle, damp gloves.
Someone mentions their fingers feel numb. They shake them out and carry on.
That’s often where cold injury begins.
In the UK, cold injuries rarely arrive with drama. They creep in quietly — and they’re more common than many people realise.
