Two pictures only, but they are definitely worth to see.
Vladimir Potapov during his snowmobile expedition in the Arctic zone of Yakutia, Siberia, Russia. Early November 2011.
More about 2011 Arctic Snowmobile Expedition to Laptev Sea in Yakutia, Siberia / Russia.
Cross-country skiing in cold conditions: -20 to -25 °C (about -4 to -13 °F). By Vegarste, Flickr.
Proud to announce that our Cold United group on Flickr is becoming popular! We’ve got 684 members and 8,899 cold winter photographs. Cool! Feel free to join us.
Meanwhile, enjoy Cold United members’ pretty chilly portraits. All pics are clickable.
Yesterday was a turning day in Yakutsk. It looked like the Winter said, “Ok, no more games with mild winter weather. Let’s have the real cold come right now and for a long time.”
The day didn’t promise anything extraordinary. It was pretty regular in the beginning. -3C and light snow. By the end of a work day, something happened. Winds started blowing furiously and snow descended in abundance. It was the Arctic-like blizzard that lasted, unfortunately, not so long.
Cool anyway! People liked it. See more snowstorm photographs and a video.
Social Media is awesome! It provides an unique opportunity to keep in touch with unique people.
In in the end of July 2011, Vladimir Sevostianov, a fb friend of mine, visited
Franz Josef Land and brought amazing photographs of the Russian Arctic in summer.
Take a look at his photographs and learn that the Arctic is not just ice, snow, fog, dark stones and cliffs, and polar bears, but it is also full of real life. Animals, colourful flowers and even mushrooms.
Vladimir Sevostianov is President of Commander Islands and BC Nature Protection and Conservation Association in Russia. A big fan of writing. Check out his page http://proza.ru/avtor/orca7.
Four Polish students, including my friend, Maciej Besta, completed the 1st Polish hiking (trekking) expedition up to Mount Narodnaya, the highest peak of Russia’s Ural Mountains (1,894 metres /6,214 ft), in winter 2011.
Closer to the peak, the temperature was minus 40 degrees Celcius.
Further, see 45 cold winter photographs taken by Maciej Besta and the text written by Luba Suslyakova, who runs the blog AskUral.com. Maciej Besta is our common friend.
Last summer, by the way, Maciej hiked across Chersky Range in Yakutia. And it’s him in the cold photo of Deant du Geant Glacier. He is a member of a Polish Travel Club.
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.
These trees overloaded with snow resemble sculptures of an old man and hugging kids. Yeah, winter is still in the Siberian city of Yakutsk. This morning we had -34C. Pretty warm to us. A photo was taken by the iPhone on Feb. 25, 2011.
I am trying to make a sort of Yakutsk Live Photostream. Daily I take new mobile pictures of Yakutsk (Yakutia/Russia) and upload them instantly to my Twitpic account. Updates are automatically published on Twitter @yakutia. So, do follow me, if interested.
The Sapporo Snow Festival (or Yuki Matsuri) is held every year in Sapporo, the capital of the Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan.
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.
On the web, especially on twitter, I see often people complaining about the cold weather and winter. In a Washington DC forum one lady asked, if there were other cold admirers, and she immediately got replies like, “Are you nuts?!”
My god, how is it possible not to love the cold? Especially when the cold weather is not extreme, mild and snowy as it is in Helsinki.
Take a look at Piero Damiani’s winter street photographs taken during this month’s holidays in Helsinki, Finland. Awesome! True wonderland to dream about!
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