If you are faced with a bug-out or survival moment in a cold weather environment, one of the most pronounced dangers is exposure to the elements.

While hypothermia is the one thing you must always be alert and prepared for, extreme cold can bring another, potentially as dangerous threat: Frostbite.

Frostbite is the term for when your skin and the underlying fluids and tissue freeze due to prolonged, unprotected exposure to cold.

A common misconception is that to get frostbite you have to be exposed to bitter cold, but in reality, any exposure to weather below freezing can lead to frostbite.

Depending on where a person contracts it and how severe it is, the consequences can range from a patch of permanently dead skin to amputation if the frostbite is severe enough.

We discuss the symptoms and phases of frostbite on the next page. Warning: The following page contains a graphic image that have not been censored.

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