The Lapps protect their necks very well with their thick collars, without which they would be unable to venture out in such extreme cold. This sensitive organ with its many nerves, muscles, windpipe, important veins and arteries would otherwise come to serious harm since it is so thin and also the least warm part of the body. That is why it is bad for our young women and young men to tie neckerchiefs so tightly round their necks that they go red in the face as if they were being strangled.