Ultimate Arctic Crossing - part 2

Sunday March 3 - DAY 7 / From the very first days, some of Hubert's fingers were frozen. Diagnosis of his doctor whom he contacted by telephone in Switzerland a few days later: "Alain has probably suffered from frostbite of average gravity on several fingertips, for it is already in the process of cicatrisation. He has never lost his sense of feeling, which is a good sign. He described for me brownish surrounds of his nails, with dried "blisters" or "sores"..." Jacques Richon.

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