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The setting is in Klondike, Yukon in Canada during the cold winter in the month of January. Throughout the night traveling to the divide of Cherry Creek and Paul Creek.
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“The frost was sixty- degrees below zero, and be had thirty miles of lonely trail to cover, but he did not mind.”
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“[F]or he was strapping young fellow, big- boned and big muscled, with faith in himself, and in the strength of his head and hands.”
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The rising action begins when Tom Vincent took a break to stop and eat his biscuit. While taking off his gloves, his fingers began to become numb forcing him to put his gloves on again.
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After a few minutes of sitting, he began to feel like he was becoming numb all over to become warm again he took off running later stopping to continue eating.
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While traveling to get to his destination, he tries crossing a creek with thin areas of ice that cause him to fall through halfway across.
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After falling into the creek with wet socks and it being twenty degree weather, he attempts to build a fire.
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The weather starting to chill his body he made an attempt to build a fire; however, taking off his gloves he began to feel the chilling power of the weather slowing freeze his hands and feet.
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The first attempt fails while the second attempts works only to be put out by a lump of snow that fell from a tree not lasting long.
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In desperation to get his hands stead to use, he hits them against a tree and lights them on fire to regain circulation in his hands.
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Once able to feel in his hands he is able to create a fire to save his body from the cruelty weather.
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The resolution is when Tom Vincent makes it to the camp on Cherry creek divide.
