New photos from Oymyakon, a village in which a thermometer broke from -62 ° C frost

Welcome again to Oymyakon, a village where students attend classes if the temperature does not reach critical -52 ° C. The remote Siberian village is considered the coldest settlement in the world, and in mid-January the temperature here dropped to -62 ° C, the “frosty” mark that makes our daily complaints about weather conditions at least ridiculous.

Once, a photographer named Amos Chapple went there to experience the phenomenal frost constantly reigning in Oymyakon. "I was in thin pants when I first went outside at -47 ° C, - says Chapple. - I remember how I felt that the cold physically squeezes my legs. Another surprise was that sometimes my saliva froze and turned into needles that pricked my lips. "

However, this time the cold is even stronger and the winter this year, apparently, decided to show its power in all its paradoxical beauty. Frost not only compresses the legs, but also turns people's eyelashes into icicles. The official weather station at the cold pole recorded -59 ° C, but the new electronic thermometer claimed that everything was -62 ° C outside the window. In fact, he even stopped working after reaching a painful mark. And some of the 500 locals say that the temperature even reaches an unprecedented -68 ° C.

Some photographers try to use frost for creative purposes. For example, they take such photos of ballerinas when it is -41 ° C outside. And there is no photoshop.

The terrible frost was too much even for an electronic thermometer, which broke down, reaching -62 ° C.

“Now we clear the snow with the help of our Yakut horses. For us, this is normal,” says one of the locals.

The daylight hours here vary from three hours in December to 21 hours in June.