The Coldest Village In The World

The village of Oymyakon in the Siberian tundra is considered to be the coldest inhabited place with an average winter temperature of −50 °C.

No crops, just meat. Most toilets are outhouses due to frozen plumbing. Cars must be kept running while outside. Kiwi photographer Amos Chapple travelled there from Yakutsk (the coldest city in the world) and documented his nippy trip. He told Weather.com:

I remember feeling like the cold was physically gripping my legs, the other surprise was that occasionally my saliva would freeze into needles that would prick my lips.

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24 thoughts on “The Coldest Village In The World”

andyourpointiswhatexactly December 23, 2014 at 9:33 am

heeeeeeh heh. He said prick.

I’d love to visit it – just for a day, like.

scottser December 23, 2014 at 10:40 am

ye’d want double apple-catchers up there, stop the nelly gettin frozen off ye :)
1. andyourpointiswhatexactly December 23, 2014 at 11:03 am
  
  Too right! Nuffink worse than frozen flaps.
  1. fluffybiscuits December 23, 2014 at 11:08 am
    
    I should know

Don Pidgeoni December 23, 2014 at 9:45 am

My idea of hell. Imagine needing a wees?! Your labia would freeze!!

andyourpointiswhatexactly December 23, 2014 at 9:46 am

Your weewees would freeze before they hit the ground. You’d have to snap them off. Your wees, not your labia.
1. Don Pidgeoni December 23, 2014 at 9:49 am
  
  What if you power wee (ie splash back?!)!! This is terrifying.
  1. andyourpointiswhatexactly December 23, 2014 at 9:53 am
    
    Found dead, confounded by your own frozen weewees.
    RIPee.
    1. Don Pidgeoni December 23, 2014 at 9:58 am
      
      I knew it would be a toilet-related death
Soundings December 23, 2014 at 12:04 pm

Get a copy of couple of copies of Playboy, meningitis vaccine which turns your pee neon orange, and you could have a Star Wars sword fight. So, vaccine, followed by pee, followed by Playboy (not the Wosie Davison edition unless you want to drag your laser swords on the ground) and FIGHT!

Peter81 December 23, 2014 at 9:56 am

Note the defiant statue of Lenin in the background.

andyourpointiswhatexactly December 23, 2014 at 9:57 am

Like the Leaning Tower of Pisa.

Skeptik December 23, 2014 at 10:00 am

That dog needs a santa hat. Might cheer him up a bit.

chimpy December 23, 2014 at 10:37 am

haha nice

Mikeyfex December 23, 2014 at 10:05 am

Ya but does it have the damp breeze that’d whip the snot off ya?

Murtles December 23, 2014 at 10:23 am

See documentaries from these places, if you spit, it freezes before hitting the ground and lads throwning saucepans of boiling water into the air, it comes down as snow. Yes outdoor toileting would be a nightmare. Pee, break off stream, repeat.