Coldest climate you've experienced
I don't think I could live in a cold country. 
Mine was also in RussiaRoquetas wrote:Seems like this might be a thread for me.
-33 last week. My snot froze after 5 minutes.
-10 today and it feels perfectly fine. I'll never complain about cold in England again.
Roquetas wrote:Seems like this might be a thread for me.
-33 last week. My snot froze after 5 minutes.
-10 today and it feels perfectly fine. I'll never complain about cold in England again.
[...]Travelling during the Antarctic winter had not been previously tried; Scott wrote that it was "a bold venture, but the right men have gone to attempt it."[87] Cherry-Garrard later described the horrors of the 19 days it took to travel the 60 miles (97 km) to Cape Crozier. Gear, clothes, and sleeping bags were constantly iced up; on 5 July, the temperature fell below −77 °F (−60 °C) – "109 degrees of frost – as cold as anyone would want to endure in darkness and iced up clothes", wrote Cherry-Garrard. Often the daily distance travelled was little more than a single mile.[88]
At Cape Crozier the party, with great difficulty, built an igloo from snow blocks, stone, and a sheet of wood they had brought for the roof.[89] They were then able to visit the penguin colony and collect several emperor penguin eggs.[90] Subsequently their igloo shelter was almost destroyed in a blizzard with force 11 winds. The storm also carried away the tent upon which their survival would depend during their return journey, but fortunately this was recovered, half a mile away.[91] The group set out on the return journey to Cape Evans, arriving there on 1 August.[92] The three eggs that survived the journey went first to the Natural History Museum in South Kensington, and thereafter were the subject of a report from Dr. Cossar Stewart at the University of Edinburgh.[93] The eggs failed, however, to provide proof of Wilson's theories.[94]
Cherry-Garrard afterwards described this as the "worst journey in the world",[95] and used this as the title of the book that he wrote in 1922 as a record of the entire Terra Nova Expedition. Scott called the Winter Journey "a very wonderful performance",[92] and was highly satisfied with the experiments in rations and equipment: "We are as near perfection as experience can direct."[92]
I lived in Berlin for a few years and recall some bitter bitter winters, but also some great snow. The coldest I have been was in Bosnia 1998/99. Although it was quite rare I recall on a few occasions the temperature dipped to -15.lambrini wrote:Germany (Berlin, Oranienburg) in January. The temperature was below -10 degrees most days. Couldn't go outside without wearing at least three layers, gloves, hat scarf and a decent coat. Although I looked after my skin every day, by the end of the week it was very dry.
It was a great experience but despite Britain's annoyances, I was glad to be back in Blighty where the weather was reasonable and my skin wasn't going to age quickly.
I'd love to visit Antartica, though; maybe Russia, Greenland and Canada.
Wow, amazing. I loved Berlin; went to The Kunst Bunker in Mitte. http://www.sammlung-boros.de/bunker-berlin.html?L=1Gosport Mark wrote:I lived in Berlin for a few years and recall some bitter bitter winters, but also some great snow. The coldest I have been was in Bosnia 1998/99. Although it was quite rare I recall on a few occasions the temperature dipped to -15.lambrini wrote:Germany (Berlin, Oranienburg) in January. The temperature was below -10 degrees most days. Couldn't go outside without wearing at least three layers, gloves, hat scarf and a decent coat. Although I looked after my skin every day, by the end of the week it was very dry.
It was a great experience but despite Britain's annoyances, I was glad to be back in Blighty where the weather was reasonable and my skin wasn't going to age quickly.
I'd love to visit Antartica, though; maybe Russia, Greenland and Canada.
I was only a teenager, but the city was amazing. got there as the wall was coming down.lambrini wrote:Wow, amazing. I loved Berlin; went to The Kunst Bunker in Mitte. http://www.sammlung-boros.de/bunker-berlin.html?L=1Gosport Mark wrote:I lived in Berlin for a few years and recall some bitter bitter winters, but also some great snow. The coldest I have been was in Bosnia 1998/99. Although it was quite rare I recall on a few occasions the temperature dipped to -15.lambrini wrote:Germany (Berlin, Oranienburg) in January. The temperature was below -10 degrees most days. Couldn't go outside without wearing at least three layers, gloves, hat scarf and a decent coat. Although I looked after my skin every day, by the end of the week it was very dry.
It was a great experience but despite Britain's annoyances, I was glad to be back in Blighty where the weather was reasonable and my skin wasn't going to age quickly.
I'd love to visit Antartica, though; maybe Russia, Greenland and Canada.
I haven't seen much of Europe; there are so many places I want to visit, unfortunately not enough time at the moment.
Luckily bailed home before the 2013–14 Yank cold winter really got going.
Yeah, the cold store, that's it. Freezing - despite the protective clothing. Shit job, low paid, but a free turkey and gateaux at Christmas.carcinogen wrote:The Cold-Store. Birds-Eye Walls. Lowestoft. 1994-96. Used to defrost sections. -20. Well wrapped-up though with thermals. Plus easy access to stock-piles of Vienntta
