Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/09/21

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Arctic circle and Leicas
From: Carl Socolow <csocolow@microserve.net>
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 17:28:36 -0400
 
I would still hate to load the thing under those conditions. :)

Carl S.

leica@olemiss.edu wrote:
> 
SNIP
> He carried one Leica M2 and a package of lenses.
> He used the Leica at temperatures down to 50 below and a wind chill factor he
> could not measure and it never stopped working. The punch line though was that
> when we was trying to walk the frozen tundra he used the Leica body as a
> hammer to knock  the ice off his boots that had frozen there between the heel
> and the sole."
> 
> Kirk Turk