An imperative piece of reading for most young men. It gave me the sense of understanding that to attempt something in the face of severe adversity is godlike. (London's like that.)
Once, I included a short piece referencing “To Build a Fire”, as a drunk dying in a snowbank watching two men do battle with swords, seeing them as celestial bodies colliding, while hidden by a group of trees, numb to his fate by the liquor and the killing chill.
Having personally suffered from hypothermia four years ago at the camp below Halfdome in Yosemite, while nursing a fire all night, amongst people and in a space that should be comfortable, I can say that I don't know how our 19th century Michiganian ancestors withstood the subfreezing temperatures on a daily basis. (Of course, I was hiking like a maniac all the day prior, and I was fresh to the elevation.)
I've picked up a few copies of Outside magazine. Great stuff!