Sounds like a good experiment, MNS. I hope I get to see it.

One thing that you see often in accounts about high altitude mountaineering is that when someone gets really cold, their body reacts as if it is warm and they start taking off their gloves, hats and even their down suits. This happened to one or two of the climbers involved in the multiple deaths portrayed in Into Thin Air. If I remember right, the re-creation in a recent tv show about those climbers showed how the others found one of them just sitting on a ledge with no gloves on and his jacket unzipped in about -30F or so weather, as it he was sitting somewhere on a nice warm day.

So, just as with your test subject, once you get really cold, it may be too late to do any rational thinking.