David Jagoutz’s early warning system

June 2014

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June 2014

David Jagoutz with his prototype hypothermia sensing device
Fourteen-year-old David Jagoutz is from good mountain stock. His dad, Aran, is an instructor for the Mountain Safety Council. So David’s had the dangers of the backcountry drummed into him from an early age, including the threat of hypothermia. One of the issues, David discovered, is that people suffering from the early onset of hypothermia […]
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