I was hoping that this was going to be interesting, but I'm well over an hour into this and all of these so far (I think) can be explained with paradoxical undressing and other aspects of hypothermia.
>http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/541627Hypothermia makes people do some fucking strange things. It makes people strip off their clothes, try to run long distances, crawl into crevices and under things, etc. It's really fucking weird that people do that, but they do. They'll find old people in the winter like crammed under their sinks and behind their couches and shit. If you've ever been trained for search and rescue, you know that you have to look under logs and shit for people when it's cold.
Hypothermia makes you act completely illogically. And that seems to be the thing this author can't grasp. He keeps mentioning that people shouldn't be acting this way or doing this thing. But that's actually a common symptom of hypothermia. It's like being on drugs. It can even cause euphoria.
"To Build a Fire" kind of touches on this stuff when you see how the guy starts acting like a complete loon at the end.
So yeah, it's weird that human bodies respond to this stress in that way. But it doesn't just happen in parks. It's no weirder than the old people they find during heat waves that are wearing a sweater with their furnace on and they've totally cooked themselves.
Also, I'm not a disinfo agent.