A female ice-skater fell through the ice into a freezing lake in Hungary and survived by holding on to the edge of the ice with her teeth. Hungary’s Bilkk newspaper reports that after the 29-year-old woman fell into the water, frostbite set into her hands and she could only hang on to the broken ice with her teeth.
Some people walking by discovered her 10 minutes later. The woman was taken to a nearby hospital to be treated for hypothermia.
(From the story, "Saved by the Hair of Her Teeth" in the Feb 15/06 edition of The Nation. Sorry, no link is available.)
As the Scandanavian expression goes, "Heroism is holding on for just one minute longer."