Life in the coldest town on earth, average temperature 58 below

Posted by | December 29, 2016 09:30 | Filed under: Planet

It’s Oymyakon, Russia.

Temperatures average around -58 degrees Fahrenheit (-50 degrees Celsius) during the winter months, with the record low reaching -96.16 degrees Fahrenheit (-71.2 degrees Celsius) in 1924…

Yakutsk is the gateway to Oymyakon, widely regarded as the coldest inhabited town on the planet. It takes two days to get there, traveling down a barren and isolated stretch of road. Chapple first had to hitch a ride to a halfway point on the road, where he was stranded for two days.

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