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“I was warned every day the winter would be hard. I didn’t expect it to be as cold as it was.”

Piastri said: "You add in wind, kind of a tyre uncertainty, a little bit of rain, cold conditions on a street track like this and stuff's going to happen."

The temperature was so cold, family members dropped off sweaters and jackets for loved ones.

Still, the specter of a bear attack, especially by a grizzly, is enough to make most hikers’ blood run cold.

In Sudan, Yousuf said smugglers left his group for a month in the desert enduring searing hot days and bitter cold nights surviving on meagre rations of rice and contaminated water.