She continued: “The wind was hard and the temperature dropped quickly. This forced us to stop and orientate a lot, checking the map and compass to make sure we didn’t go in circles.
“At the time, I wasn’t used to the cold and rough weather conditions, as I had spent seven years abroad in warm countries.
“This resulted in me doing my first mistake. I didn’t temperate adjust — I became sweaty when we skied uphill with our heavy sleds, and when we stopped to navigate I became cold due to the wet clothes.
“Then I made mistake number two, I didn’t change my sweaty clothes to dry ones.”
Her body soon started to shut down.
“Eventually we had to stop and dig emergency pits to wait out the storm in, but as I was sitting in the pit with my friend, with the red tarpaulin shaking from the wind over us, my body started to shut down.
“I remember how scared I was. I couldn’t get warm.”
Then suddenly Ms Miller’s shivering and shaking stopped, which is a late sign of hypothermia.
“I thought about my mum, my dad and strangely I started to feel better, almost warm,” she said.
“I started to open my jacket, leaning back. My friend told me that my last words before losing consciousness were that I was getting hot and that I was going to sleep a little.
“Luckily my friend reacted to this and immediately took action — he shook me, dragged me out of the pit, dressed me with all the clothes he could find and the whole group started the rescue.”
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