>Of course you'll freeze in a matter of minutes. Or suffocate in a matter of seconds. Also, there's like nothing to eat.
The surface does have organic matter, together with rock mixed in with the ice, so there is potential for in-situ resource utilization to support human habitation.
So clearly this is the build up for the dystopian post apocalyptic novel where our protagonist finds a completely functional and "brand new" warship frozen solid in the ice. They use primitive tools to defrost it and using it in a daring and surprising raid, defeat the evil warlord who has enslaved the former population of New York :-)
Of course it isn't really all the much different than people in Boston who leave the 'good car' in the garage all winter because of the risk of damage associated with operating it in icy conditions.
You just made me realize I never questioned where the 20th-century iceman would have gotten his ice from in a world without condensers. That's a fascinating infrastructure to imagine – shipping ice long distances in the summer heat with no active cooling. I actually want to read more about this.
People taking off their clothes is common with severe hypothermia. Lacerations and blunt trauma is common for avalanche victims. The soft/detachable parts (eyes, tongue) can be still eaten by scavengers while frozen.
So the only unusual part would be the radioactivity, strange lights, and what triggered the avalanche. Which could all be explained by some classified military test.
This article was not what I expected it to be. I thought it would be about someone freezing to death in Antarctica or Siberia. Perhaps freeze was the wrong word choice.
The best would be an underwater robot on a tether. But then you have to get through the ice. I believe there was once a proposal to melt through the ice using some sort of fission device, but these days people don't like nucolar things.
Much of the Alaskan and Canadian coast was glaciated during the period in question. You should trust me that doing a raft train along the live edge of sea ice is a very quick way to die.
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