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Testing Skin Resilience

Braving 22-mile-an-hour (35-kilometer-an-hour) winds at minus 40°F (minus 40°C), a test subject participates in skin reaction experiments at Defence R&D Canada in Toronto. Researchers there subjected test participants to a variety of simulated weather conditions to test how long it takes skin to become frostbitten.

Photograph by Sarah Leen