Trapped up a mountain with my nephew, in a freezing cold tent, we had to share body heat to keep warm. Then we shared something more intimate.
I went camping with my husband and two children's in Himachalpradesh. My husband's 18-year-old nephew Sachin was also with us. We all enjoyed our stay there. Nearby, there was a mountain. I asked my husband to go there for trekking but he was not interested, and my children's were also not interested due to the cold weather.
However, Sachin was eager to trek that mountain with me. So we both gone for trekking that mountain. We spent three days out in the mountains when the weather took a sudden turn, we were expecting winds and rain but nothing prepared us for the snow that came out of nowhere.
It came down thick and fast so we pitched up our tent as quickly as we could, in a safe spot near a rock wall, we got inside and waited it out.
But the weather didn't let up and within less than an hour it was a foot deep with snow, we decided we had no choice but to activate our emergency distress beacon, we knew it would take days for anyone to reach us, air rescue was unlikely in these conditions.
We had some soup made on our portable hot stove and then we got in to the sleeping bags and huddled together, we played guessing games and some trivia to keep ourselves occupied and we were both quite worried about the way the top of the tent was folding and swaying in the high winds, I banged on the top to knock the large accumulation of snow off.
After several hours, Sachin was shaking and shivering from the cold, the snow surrounding and slowly burying our tent made it close to freezing inside, there was nothing more we could do, then I remembered survival training I had a few years back, they suggested sharing body heat to keep warm.