Geeky Variants of Dogs Playing Poker

Maybe something in his genes?

Shame about that whole global WARMING thing because his (innate?) skill will be much less cool when he's swimming in a temperate seas.

Oh, I remember seeing this guy on a National Geographic Special about people who have extraordinary abilities like speed reading, instant math calculations, endurance and so on. I think it related to how the brain works in many ways. It was quite intriguing and awesome to see folks who you could possibly walk past on the street who have "super brains".

Impressive ability, I wonder if it works via some sort of natural anti-freeze in his system.

The article says "...climbing the Everest in his shorts". Is that Mount Everest or just a local hill known as The Everest? hmmmm....

I have also heard of monks in the Himalayas who through meditation are able to drastically raise their body temperature, and survive for several nights exposed to the elements at that altitude. They did a demonstration for scientists where they used their bodies to dry wet towels. You could see the steam coming off of them. It was pretty interesting.

This is probably a case of him subconsciously (or consciously if he has trained to do it) opening a metabolic pathway that is normally closed. It probably uses up a lot of energy, but it seems a much better way to survive extreme cold than sacrificing the extremities.

i think its called "inner fire" or something

I think we have our man for the mars mission!

Wow, the human body is amazing and we're all different.

I vote he's a alien. Someone needs to check his DNA (like in Joe Haldeman's SF novel - Camouflage).

I wonder how he first discovered this ability.

I wonder what his BMR is... It sounds like he's bradymetabolic which is just weird. Cool, but weird.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=madoDvtKEes&feature=related

chilly story.

# Wow Says:
March 8th, 2008 at 10:55 am

The article says “…climbing the Everest in his shorts”. Is that Mount Everest or just a local hill known as The Everest? hmmmm….

well he's dutch, and in the Netherlands we don't have hills, our biggest one is 300 meter :P. but its the everst.

i've seen te guy in action, standing in a ice tank for wel over an hour, than climbing out under own power. (2 meter high tank.