Interesting and unique photos from driving on the coldest ice road in the world in Yakutia, Siberia. 1000km from Yakutsk to Belaya Gora.
Temperatures drop to -50C to -60C, every morning the driver must use a blow torch to unfreeze the truck engine. The ice on the frozen rivers is 1-2m thick.
The trip carrying 12 tons of food takes almost a week driving 14-16 hours a day. 4 days of it driving on the frozen Indigirka river. The driver makes 500 Euro (the same trip takes only 3 hours by plane).
http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/sibirien-lastwagenfahrer-versorgen-entlegene-gebiete-fotostrecke-157922.htmlGerman subtitles from Spiegel
Another photo reportage from Oymyakon in Siberia , the coldest village on Earth. English captions
The photographer recalls that the hardest thing was not the cold itself, but that his camera’s focus and zoom rings would occasionally freeze in place.
https://www.boredpanda.com/coldest-village-oymyakon-amos-chapple/Another article in English (but no pictures) about the Yakutia Ice Road
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/siberia-s-ice-road-truckers-it-s-like-a-way-of-life-says-writer-1.2515737Yakutia (Sakha Republic) map
https://www.google.ca/maps/dir/Belaya+Gora,+Sakha+Republic,+Russia/Yakutsk,+Sakha+Republic,+Russia/@66.7759217,133.8035335,5z/data=!4m13!4m12!1m5!1m1!1s0x5bceb30c6cadb857:0x805076ea0e349e2b!2m2!1d146.232876!2d68.549671!1m5!1m1!1s0x5bf63939a0d2c47d:0x69b4c4b35cafa2fb!2m2!1d129.6754745!2d62.0354523?hl=enmap to Belaya Gora showing the winding Indigirka River
https://www.google.ca/maps/place/Indigirka+River/@68.128326,144.2356681,9z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x5be07736f726f7e9:0xb092b03351830ca2!8m2!3d65.2769609!4d143.0366518?hl=en
