There are certain things that living on a frozen lake for three weeks is bound to teach you. Like the importance of wearing umpteen layers of clothes, to ensure that you don’t sneeze out ice cubes on sniffing some pepper, even if it means that your mobility is severely restricted. That if you don’t want to fall and crack your skull on rock solid ice, it is sometimes simply safer to shuffle your feet and slide along the frozen surface, than attempt taking bold steps. And that, for reasons it is rather impolite to go into great detail of, the concept of a waterless toilet in sub-zero temperatures makes perfect sense.
More pertinently though, living on a frozen lake can teach you that when temperatures go above zero degrees in the night, there is good reason for the looks of worry that are likely to cross the faces of people. After all, it’s only …


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