Monday, January 28, 2013

Coldest place on Earth: shaman paradise

, TheWorld.org ("Expedition Across Frozen Siberian Frontier," Jan. 28, 2013)
I have just spend a few extra ordinary days with the Even reindeer herders in the coldest inhabited place on earth - Oymyakon. I have traveled with friends and Misja and Kesja, the reindeer herders and 25 reindeer over taiga land of great beauty!
Traveling by reindeer like mushroom Santa in -50 degree Siberia (MikaelStrandberg.com)
 
I have just spend a few extra ordinary days with the Even reindeer herders in the coldest inhabited place on earth - Oymyakon. I have traveled with friends and Misja and Kesja, the reindeer herders and 25 reindeer over taiga land of great beauty!Monday’s Geo Quiz is cold, cold, cold. We’re looking for the name of a cold Siberian city. It’s the capital of the Russian Republic of Sakha [as in Shakya? Sakka? Buddhist Kalmykia?] It has on average the coldest winter temperatures for any city in the world. This capital city is also the starting point of a venture nicknamed “Expedition Extreme Cold.” In the weeks ahead, a small team of explorers, reindeer herders, and a filmmaker [Mikael Strandberg] will trek several hundred miles across a Siberian forest where temperatures get down to minus 75 Fahrenheit.... LISTEN:
 

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