how people in extremely cold places can survive? For example, Oymyakon in Siberia regularly gets below – 55°c / – 67°f, and I’m sure we’ve all seen those videos of people throwing boiling water into the air where it freezes instantly. How does blood not freeze? How are mucous membranes and eyeballs not frozen within seconds? How does anybody pee without it instantly freezing?
Obviously people live in heated housing, but how can people go outside/ pee outside without injury? I’ve wondered about this for years, and even more so when I see pictures of animals seemingly frozen in place mid-movement.
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Inuk from Iqaluit, Nunavut.
I walk to work all-year long, though it only takes about half an hour to get to my office.
With appropriate winter attire – 60 is doable. Beyond this though, your body does acclimatize to the cold.
Having said that, what we call most southerners (ie most of the Canadians that have replied), dont tend to go outside in – 60.
Funny story, one of my ancestors was a guide for some expiditions that would come here and he’d have to ‘guide’ the people for them to be able to pee.
Modern science is just now starting to catch up with Inuit traditional knowledge, by that I mean you don’t need to wear polar bear hide clothing / caribou clothing to survive up here but it helps.
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