When ascending you are wearing a Mountaineering Suit whichprovides warmth and protection, though it's designed for activeclimbing with cuts that do not inhibit movement going up past theclouds. The suit’s insulation is mostly airy fill goose down with athermal conductivity of 0.025 W/m C and an average thickness of 5cm. At what rate is energy transferred by conduction through thissuit?

Consider the temperature of the human body 37C and its surfacearea 1.4 m2 and an outside temperature of – 20 C.

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