The 2011 Marine Live-Ice Auto Expedition (MLAE 2011) has completed the first stage of the long Arctic journey by two amphibian vehicles, “Yemelya 3″ and “Yemelya 4,” from Russia’s Taimyr to Canada’s Resolute Bay through the North Pole.
In March-April, 2011, the team led by Vasiliy Elagin made it from Urengoy to the meteo station located on Golomyannyy Island west off Oktyabrskoy Revolutsii. More than 2800 km. Mostly through hard-passing ices of the Kara Sea.
Director: Manoj Pillai, Thinkpot.
What’s going on here? As my Indian friend, Ashish, said, (more…)
Hurray! We’ve got a video from Fairbanks, Alaska. It was created by Ronn Murray, a great photographer living in the US coldest state. By the way, he’s got breathtaking pictures of Aurora Borealis. Love following his photostream on Facebook and his website Ronn Murray Photography.
Ronn, thanks a lot for joining our movement Show Your Place! Well, currently we have videos from Yakutsk (Yakutia/Russia), Reykjavik (Iceland), Fairbanks and New York City (USA). Who’s next?
PS. Oh, there is a video from Finland, but its author need to upload it on YouTube. We’ll wait for it. We are not in a hurry 
Hello, friends!
Just remembered all cold regions, apart from Russia, are going to celebrate Christmas pretty soon! Here are my wishes to you.
Don’t complain about the cold weather, if it happened on your side. Look at my X-mas iPhone video greeting (a sort of) done, while I was standing on the crossroad in front of Yakutsk City Hall this morning. The outdoor temperature was -44C. Presume it is much colder than yours
Take care! Have fun! Take your time to find the best gifts in stores! Enjoy the X-mas fever!
See also pics…
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That’s really great to have friends around the world! Just a few minutes ago two fellows – Ilya Kovyakin from the Russian city of Magadan and Pelle Gangeskar from the Norwegian village of Røldal – simultaneously shared mobile photographs taken on snow-covered roads today, October 23rd, 2010.
Let’s play the game. Just guess where the above pictures were taken. Any ideas? Okey, see answers further.
The Winter Road Documentary Poster
This is the trailer of Nikolay Evstifeev’s documentary “THE WINTER ROAD. The Land of Fierce…” about the sever work in Siberia’s Yakutia. Here you can see how hard ordinary people’s work can be in the hardest part of Siberia. The documentary won The Best Directing Award at The 17th Saint Anna Film Festival and The Best Cinematography Award at The 29th VGIK Film Festival. Btw, Anton Safronov was a camera man.
The documentary is about Yakutia, the sever land of truckers, gold miners, hunters, and oil industry workers. Extreme conditions are revealed in every capture. Survival at minus 50 degrees Celsius, the road on the frozen river, people’s attitude to nature, wild life… and PEOPLE without false manners and any compromises.
“This movie is very sincere! This is a real big documentary!” said Michael Porechenkov, the chairman of the 29th VGIK Film Festival jury, a famous Russian actor. (more…)
There is an awesome Yakutian photographer, Masha Dubroskaya. Four years ago she started her journey of the life across South East Asia. She’s got beautiful travel pictures, many of them were published in popular travel magazines. She and her boyfriend Ajay have a blog TraveLiving.org, where, by the way, I found the above “snowy” video.
A store truck with Ded Moroz (a sort of Santa Clause) arrived in the Belorussian village of Novoselki, 30 km away from the restricted area around Chernobyl. Dec. 22, 2009. REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko.
Via Drugoi.Lj.com
A friend of mine, Jonathan Fox, an UK biker, updated his today’s status “The temperature is a cool -8.5 Celsius. I think it’s time to go riding. ” Yeah, time to drive on BMW in the cold!
A week ago he did his travel from Manchester to Austria on his BMW bike. At that time he wrote “Had the Swiss and Austrian Alps all to himself yesterday. Either I’m fortunate or no other biker is crazy enough to be riding when it’s -3c with snow on the ground.”
Later he added “OK maybe I’m the crazy one, but the rewards for being crazy and going out when no other does are great. ” (more…)
Oh, man. What’s going on in Alberta, Canada? An Arctic cold front brought blizzard snowstorms to Calgary and Edmonton. Awesome & awful!
The Internet is already full of news, videos, and photos. Check the elected ones. (more…)
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