Welcome to the tiny Russian town of Oymyakon - the coldest inhabited place on earth - where temperatures drop to -58 degrees Fahrenheit


The coldest inhabited place on Earth is a small village in the Siberian tundra called Oymyakon where temperatures have been recorded as low as -90 degrees Fahrenheit. Average winter temperatures hang around -58 degrees Fahrenheit in Oymyakon and only about 500 people brave the cold to call the town home. Photographer Amos Chapple, of New Zealand, took a two day trip to the Russian village and quickly learned just how painful the plunging temperatures can be. Chapple traveled from Yakutsk, the world's coldest major city, to Oymyakon, the world's coldest inhabited area.He hoped to document the residents in the small town's lives as they avoided frostbite and blistering cold.

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