Yeah, maybe it was frostbite and maybe he was just makin’ up a story to avoid tellin’ you where he had really been.
The film of the male with the frostbitten private part was not him. As far as both films of the two excursions on the ice, I have seen those films.
He has to stay healthy to make films in dangerous weather so a suit was made for him to keep him warm. He has used that suit also in Russian Siberia twice.