Weather stories
I was cooking for an expedition. I had cooked some pasta and was draining it outside the tent using only the pan lid as I had nothing else. The pasta slipped through the lid onto the ice. I went back into the tent to get a fork to get the pasta back into the pan but by the time I got back, a few seconds later, the pasta had frozen solid to the ice!
I believe the temperature was about -40°C and there was quite a wind blowing at the time. Eventually we chipped the pasta out and thawed it as we needed all the calories we could get just to keep warm.
Arctic Ocean, March 1967
