Will this ice hold me? You could be dead in 10 minutes if it doesn't
"Look, the lake has frozen over! Let's see if we can walk on it." Famous last words like these are too often said without any consideration for just how dangerous it is to walk on freshly formed ice. Experts in Germany - where emergency services regularly pull people, dead and alive, from icy waters - are calling on people to think before heading out on the ice. "It can be deadly," warns Josephine Giessel, Chairwoman of the Life Saving Association (DLRG) in the German city of Halle. This is beca