To say the most "uninhabitable" place on Earth, Siberian Oymyakon is famous on the absolute list.

The name sounds like the background setting of some ice snow kingdom, in fact, the real existence of the "Earth Cold" - down to 71.2 ° C, listening to it all makes the tooth cool.

Here the winter lasts for up to 9 months, even air can freeze out the pattern, the eyelids freeze, and the sputum can blow out the sound.

Moreover, there are hundreds of people living in such a place where even the refrigerator is too cold for generations. How to live? Why not move? Especially women, what should they do when faced with "physiological problems"? This is not hardcore survival, but a real version of the extreme challenge.

Everything has to be ¡°priority¡±.

In Oymyakon, the house is not used to "live comfortably", but to "live". the ground is frozen harder than steel plates, and the eternal freezing layer is hundreds of meters deep, even with a hammer.

So the villagers to build a house had to put another path, the whole house "shaped" up, underneath empty more than a meter high, as if the house was wearing high heels.

The walls are thick like a safe, the door is a layer of a layer, just like wearing five pieces of military coat. This design is not for the beauty, but to prevent the cold air from entering.

The problem with the plumbing is more troublesome. If they can't be buried underground, they can only "lie" on the ground. But in an environment of minus 60 or 70 degrees, when the water stops, it becomes a popsicle. What to do?

Every few hundred meters in the village, a heating station has to be set up, burning coal, firewood, and even electric heaters, like a water pipe to warm the baby.

This is not the case of a single family, but the whole village has to go together, whose pipe is frozen, maybe even the water of the neighbor's house is broken.

Dress up here and do not hope for any fashion, all depend on the "lily" rule of survival. T-shirt, caterpillar skin, feather clothes, windproof cotton, plastic shell, a layer to a layer, suited to the end can not even recognize themselves.

The hat must be wolf-skinned, the shoes filled with grass, the gloves filled with cotton ¨C not afraid of the cold, but afraid of freezing.The dressing process before leaving is comparable to the blind box, set down for at least ten minutes, and you are tired of sweating, but once you go out, you are frozen back to the original shape.

The most trusted in the village is the old Soviet cross-country car. Don't look at the old shape, it's the real "anti-freeze king."

But drivers have to bring electric blankets and emergency kits with their cars, and the ignition has to be started three times, otherwise the battery will freeze and crack directly, and the car will not recognize you.

The road smoothed like glass, carelessly came out of the "major", every year there is a tragedy of frozen death in the middle of the road, here, out of the door, and the adventure is no different.

In terms of eating, don't say vegetables and fruits, not even a potato can not be planted, the food is basically unreliable. The main food is deer meat, horse meat and frozen fish, the most famous dish is "Stroganyna", in fact, frozen fish, cut into thin pieces of raw food.

When eating, your mouth can't touch the edge of the bowl, otherwise your tongue can stick directly and you have to scald it down with hot water. Milk is reindeer milk, with a frighteningly high energy density, like a natural "high-calorie drink".

Every winter you have to burn 25 cubic meters of wood to heat up, and the whole family shred wood like a fitness worker.

The ¡°physiological problem¡± of women is the most difficult problem of survival.

In the eyes of most people, the toilet is an unusual thing, but in Oymyakon, especially for women, it is a "life and death hour" that we face every day.

Because most houses don't have indoor water toilets, if you want to "go out", you can only go to the outdoor dry toilet. That's not a matter of a few steps next to the yard, but a matter of walking more than ten meters and going out armed to the teeth in the biting cold wind.

The wind is like a knife, the air is like a needle, it moves a little slowly, and the urine freezes in the pants.When you go to the toilet, it is like a war, nobody wants to fight, but you have to fight.

More difficult is the physiological period. The local woman says straight: ¡°The most frightening thing is to solve the physiological problem.¡± ¡°Because at this temperature, hygiene products will freeze soon after contact with the fluid, like ¡°a ice in the body.¡±

Some women can only rely on the rotating of one-time supplies and canvases, or even try to preheat them in advance to prevent the attachment area from freezing directly.

Each treatment is like an enemy, not only a hygiene problem, but also a deep physical and psychological torture.

In terms of medical treatment, the conditions in the village can be described as "primitive". There are only 11 beds in the whole clinic, and there is not even an X-ray machine. Doctors rely on experience to diagnose.

Giving birth is a high-risk project, and the parturient must be transferred to the city hospital for production one or two months in advance, otherwise the village will not be able to take it up at all. But the problem is that the transfer journey can't be walked, and it may be interrupted at any time due to weather, vehicles or other factors.

Taking care of a baby is another tough battle. Because of fear of freezing, modern diapers dare not use at all, so they can only use traditional cotton cloth. Once the child moves, the whole family has to rush up like fighting a fire, and complete the three steps of changing, baking and wrapping within three minutes. With a slight delay, the child's butt may suffer frostbite.

For these women, having a baby is difficult, but having a baby is harder, and the boundaries between dignity and life are often blurred here.

Behind the persevering.

You may ask: Why stay here in such an environment? the answer is not complicated.When you hear 102-year-old Andrew say that his parents have lived to a hundred years, suddenly realize: here though cold, but the air is clean, the water is pure, the food is all natural meat, fish, milk, no pollution, no fast rhythm, even the quarrels are few, the day is painful, but "heartfully".

But you have to move, to cut wood, to walk, to repair things, you can¡¯t be lazy, because that means you can¡¯t live.

Their persistence has long been no longer "no choice", but actively chose this extreme way of life. They never complain about the cold, nor curse the fate, because they have long learned to find their own rhythm and meaning in the ice and snow.

In Oymyakon, survival is not a slogan, but a tough battle that is fought every day. Especially for women, in the face of menstrual period, difficulty in going to the toilet and childbearing risks, they suffer not only cold, but also the pain of dignity being challenged. But they didn't escape, but used their own way to resist every cold wind.

There is no urban feast here, and there is no exaggerated heat of social media, but there is a power of "steadfastness in the heart", which is difficult for outsiders to understand. What survived from the extreme cold was not only the body, but also the will. And this kind of will is the truest and most touching background of human beings.

Source of information:

The world¡¯s coldest village, down to 71°C, is visited by countless people every year. ... Phoenix Network.2022-12-19.

The world's coldest village has 500 people living annually. cover news.2019-01-09.