What is the relationship between man and nature in "To Build a Fire"?

Nature is totally indifferent to man in Jack London's story "To Build a Fire." Nature is a simple fact. It doesn't care in the least whether the protagonist makes it to the camp or whether he manages to build a fire or whether he freezes to death. In stories like this in which the conflict is man versus nature, it may often seem as if the mountain, the storm, the flood, the ocean, or other natural element or phenomenon has a conscious motive, but this is never the case, whether man seems to be conquering nature or nature seems to be conquering man. Stephen Crane highlighted the total indifference of nature to human fate in some of his stories, notably in "The Open Boat." Ernest Hemingway was strongly impressed by Crane and must have also been influenced by Jack London. There is a strong suggestion of atheism in stories by men like these. An example of a Hemingway story highlighting the indifference of nature is "The Old Man and the Sea."