Constant cold contributes to loneliness and isolation in the Left Hand of Darkness when we see the characters are going through rough times.Throughout the whole book, we see that Genley is an outsider to the cold climate. In chapter 13, readers see how the constant cold on the journey to the farm affects Genley and the other prisoners. The cold makes all the people on the truck feel isolated and lonely. Genley once felt so alone in the cold truck that he “sat and tried to draw up lists of [all the Karhidish words for snow] in [his] head that night” and each time he “recalled another one” he would repeat the lists, “inserting it in its alphabetical place” (169). Genley felt so isolated at this moment that he resorted to repeating words in his head in different orders. The constant cold of Gethen also contributes to the mentality of Genley as well. Throughout the book, we are given an example f the normal weather patterns through the eyes of someone who is fairly used to temperature like those of Earth. Genley states that the temperature of Gethen seems to stay below even that of our subarctic regions. Because of this, Genley must act and respond different due to the extreme temperatures of Gethen, which in turn separates and isolates him from the citizens of Gethen.Estraven also might feel lonely and cold because he was exiled. He and Genley, who both have reason to feel alone, traveled together across the ice and snow and mountains, which shows the connection the two might have made on their journeys and through their experiences with being and/or feeling isolated.