Watching Everest documentaries, why is amputation the only cure for severe frost bite?

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I would think the body would heal when it gets warm or medical technology is advanced enough to allow some healing.

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When frostbite is especially bad it will cause some of your flesh to start necrotizing. Which means your flesh and cells have died and are now starting to rot. There isn’t a cure for this, and if you dont amputate it then it’ll start to spread and eventually you’ll die of sepsis from all the rotten material entering your blood stream.

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