NARVIK, Norway (CNN)-- Fresh from medical school, Anna Bågenholm chose to do her residency in the Norwegian city of Narvik because of its spectacular mountain slopes. An expert skier, Bågenholm had ...

Deep in the heart of northern Norway lies the Kjølen mountain range, a series of jagged peaks that line the Swedish border. This bleak Arctic wilderness, more than 100 miles from any major hospital, ...

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In May 1999, three junior doctors, Anna Bågenholm, Torvind Næsheim and Marie Falkenberg, were out skiing off-piste in the Kjolen Mountains of Northern Norway, near the town of Narvik. It was a ...

Twenty-nine-year-old Anna Elisabeth Johansson Bagenholm was skiing with friends when she took a spill that sent her through the ice of a frozen stream. Only her skis, still above the ice, kept her ...

Anna Bagenholm was skiing in the Norwegian backwoods when she slid headfirst into a frozen stream. Rescued over an hour later, she was clinically dead, with no breath, no pulse. By the time she was ...

In 1999, Anna Bågenholm became trapped beneath ice for 80 minutes, her body temperature plunging to just 13.2°C (56.7°F) — the lowest ever survived. Her heart stopped. She was clinically dead for two ...

Susan Okie is a physician, poet and former Washington Post medical reporter and editor. She is a clinical assistant professor of family medicine at Georgetown University Medical School. In May 1999, ...

In May 1999, Anna Bagenholm, a 29-year-old Norwegian doctor, was skiing with two fellow physicians when she lost control, slid onto a layer of ice and fell through a hole into a mountain stream. Her ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Eight years ago a Swedish medical registrar, Anna Bagenholm, found herself the subject of the medical textbooks she had been studying.

Rescue workers bring an avalanche survivor from a helicopter to a Norwegian hospital. In 1999, Anna Bagenholm was rushed to hospital by helicopter in Norway after falling into a frozen stream.