Jenn has this story in a list for us to read as a Weekend Short. It's interesting because Jack London wrote two stories called 'To Build a Fire'. More accurately, really, it's the same story in its' bones, but London reworked the 1902 first version, which had a happy, somewhat trite ending, into a 1908 version which is... different.
This is that latter version and, for what little it's worth: I prefer this version. Enjoy the story here:
https://americanliterature.com/author...