Frozen wasteland of Siberia to experience the world only "sled house"

In the frozen wasteland of Siberia's vast, facing the "cold" the enemy, can do is silently defensive, trying to survive. If successful, either because you are heroes, either because you encountered a miracle. And the reindeer for a living still lived a nomadic life dolgans undoubtedly belong to the former.

Frozen wasteland of Siberia's vast

The shepherd and dolgan together for 3 months, I with these words as a note at the end: "in the frozen wasteland of Siberia, Russia Sakha (Yakutia) Republic of china. In February the temperature dropped to minus 53 degrees celsius. In this environment, the long journey to survive, you need a rough temper, clear mind, and be strict with oneself, whether it is for your body and soul. It sounds strange, but these are the essential quality of ice."

Without a compass, no pointing devices, he is only the most sharp and deep insights into the snow in front of.

Living together and dolgan Shepherd

At the age of 32, Ivan, was the first camp leader dolgan my trip to visit. He was driving a snowmobile, came to the village Yarui ang Kaya (Yuriung-Khaya) to meet us. In this way, we first from Russia Sakha Republic capital and Coutts, after 5 hours of cold and bumpy flight, arrived in the town, kirac (Saskylakh). Then we take the jeep, along the frozen anabar, took 11 hours. On the way to the Yaruiangkaya, we went to the edge of the polar sea Rapp Jeff. Moored ship in the harbour, spring after this long sailing to the end. Everything here, seems to be patient and gentle waiting for the winter to spring. In Siberia, people do not have much choice.

Siberia Russia accounted for 67% of land area, has more than 30 minority. Sakha Republic is the administrative district of Siberia's largest, covers an area of 3100000 square kilometers, but only 1000000 of the population. Half of the land is located in the north of the Arctic Circle, underground year-round permafrost. But the surface for the active layer, the summer ice melt, the winter freeze, can be formed about 3 m thick frozen layer. The permafrost layer below the thickness of 300 to 1500 meters, ten thousand years after the last glaciation, never melts. Saha has a name is Okui Miyako (Oimyakon) town, known as the "extreme cold". It is said to be the coldest place in the world, the minimum temperature in the record reached minus 71 degrees celsius.