The coldest town on Earth

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The coldest town on Earth

By Nick Kirkpatrick January 30 at 6:00 AM
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When Amos Chapple’s friends told him about Oymyakon, they said it was the “real Russia.” It’s dark for 21 hours per day — and, during winter, temperatures average minus 58 degrees Fahrenheit. Located only a few hundred miles from the Arctic Circle, it is reportedly the coldest town on Earth, earning its namesake in 1933 when it plummeted to minus 90.

“The level of energy it took just to be outside was a shock,” Chapple, a photographer from New Zealand, told The Washington Post. Chapple withstood the cold and traveled to the remote village to document life there.



A toilet on the tundra at a petrol stop on the road to Oymyakon, Russia. (Amos Chapple)

[valerief]

1. Is it an oil town? Otherwise, why would anyone live there? nt

[longship]

2. That latrine is enough to freeze ones chaps .

OMG! No plumbing there.

I think I'll stay home.

[madokie]

3. awesome

a friend and I started to head up to the cold country way back years ago before either of us had families. He has a brother up north of washington state who upon the third deployment to vietnam said fuck that and went to canada. Carter gave them amnesty but he said I'll never come back to the states to live after what they did to him.
Good people don't like killing even if they've been lied to that its for the good of the so called country so I can understand where he's coming from.