In article <14036-48AE03C7-448@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Ray Lein <RHLein@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>some years back,I read about a strange incident of death in the olympic
>mountains.A hiker had borrowed a nearly air-tight rei tent from a
>friend,the hiker had tied the air inlet sleeve shut and had a candle
>lantern for light,he went to sleep and sometime during the night when
>the flame burned up all he oxygen,he died.A few days later when he didnt
>return,his friends found him,he had been dead for 2 days
Asphyxiation in any enclosed space give a sufficient rate of O2 loss is
possible. Or CO poisoning.
This was one of the issues of Byrd's Alone.
Long time thread.
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