A Siberian hunter silver sunglasses in the palaeontology museum of the Bötönkös village near Batagai in Verkhoyansky region, Yakutia, Siberia, Russia. Cool! An ancient snow-n-sun protection thing! A picture by Ajar Varlamov.
A few months ago, the native cloth festival was held in the Siberian city of Yakutsk. Precisely, it took place in March 2010.
A friend of mine, Ajar Varlamov visited that event and brought fantastic pictures of so-called Siberian cold protection clothes, in other words, regular winter fur clothes of the nomadic Even people. Immediately, I posted them on my other blog eYakutia.com – English Yakutia.
Here I present a few of those gorgeous images dedicated solely to Even mittens. Beautiful, aren’t they?
The Uummannaq Arctic glasses designed by Cool(E)motion to raise funds for Children Center in Greenland
This is really cool what Dutch artists, of the cool(E)motion Arctic Arts project, do for the sake of Children’s Center in Uummannaq, Greenland.
I’m following these cool(E)motion guys’ achievements. I wrote about them previously in the post Iceberg with Dutch Artist Ap Verheggen Artworks Breaks Loose.
It was them, who put a big sculpture on an iceberg and let them roaming from the Greenlandic settlement of Uummannaq across the Arctic waters and it was them, who cried out about the apparent climate change affect, when the iceberg got melted and collapsed just in a few months, faster than expected.
This time they are promoting the Uummannaq Arctic glasses they designed on the basis of traditional Inuit sunglasses. Their cool(E)motion glasses are mordern, high-tech and have all Inuit glasses ability to protect eyes from bright sunshine and snowstorms.
Do you remember Galya Morrell‘s video of the recent New York City blizzards? Sharing the video, she said, “I miss the Uummannaq glasses. They could protect my eyes here!” She didn’t really expect to experience snowstorms in NYC. Who could?! She regreted that she had left them in Greenland.
The Arctic glasses can be very demanded worldwide. Indeed, did you expect heavy snowfalls in Europe and even Las Vegas? No one. These glasses are good to protect your eyes from sudden nature disasters. It’s serious, no jokes.
Luhkka is also known as a Saami poncho or cape. They say, it is superbly warm in the winter cold.
The Sami luhkka is used over knitwear or pelisse a long time. The use of thick ullvadmel will shelter from cold and winds.
Luhkka has become a popular outdoor garment among people in the cold season. Made out of thick frieze and decorated with red cloth and braiding.
Another great Arctic news resource is George Lessard, a journalist based in Yellowknife, Canada. He works like a real broadcasting company. He is everywhere on the Internet, on Yahoo!, Google, Flickr, YouTube & many other sites. His main website is MediaMentor.ca. Recommend to follow him on his Twitter channels @Northern_Clips & @mediamentor… It was George, who shared the link to the below personal story.
Sault Ste. Marie resident, Ryan Paquette shares his experiences from the far north.
Downtown Resolute Bay
I am writing from the far reaches of the Canadian North, from a place called Resolute Bay, on Cornwallis Island, in Nunavut.
It is also known by its Inuktitut name, Qausuittuq (pronounced “cow-swee-took”), which means “place with no dawn”. The Inuit name is appropriate because this arctic community, with a population of just over 200, gets over two months of 24-hour darkness in the winter, and an equal amount of 24-hour daylight in the summer. (more…)
C.T. Madigan, between 1911-1914 /photograph by Frank Hurley
Without fur clothing: The ice is not outside, it is inside !!!!
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That’s what I see on my way home in the evening. In the last Friday evening, Dec. 4, 2009, we had -41ºC and fog and no winds. So the frost was almost dry and burning, and my quickly frozen camera was slow to take pictures. Many unfocused shots were just deleted. See the left pics.
That’s a X-mas tree on the Ordzhanikidze Sq. No garlands and decorations yet. We are promised to see its finished beauty on Dec. 9, 2009. Hope it will be so. (more…)
Hehe. These tips are good, but in conditions of our cold we need to put more clothes, I think. However, I saw local marathoneers running in -50C and they didn’t have much layers, almost the same. However, they preferred to wear hat as well 
If I would have a chance, I’ll try to take pictures of those runners.
ColdUnited Flickr
Hoisted flags
Statistics since Dec. 21, 2009.