We are going up to Lena River today

 

it was nice sunny place !! pop. 400 students 57 good number for talking. it is very impress that everybody going to the collage.

 

Wall paint estimating 2000 years ago

 

School principal pointed out pint along the Lena

 

Lena Pillars and rough river ice

 

Horse is still important workload

 

Ice road at Lena

 

Welcome ceremony at school

 

Ice cellar entrance

 

Wonderful 2days journey of the reindeer trip 

 

Fuel is only lichen!! but it very critical to find good camping site!

 

This is our team for the journey!

slicing frozen white fish (stroganina)

it’s not smiling deer!! when pulling sled deer face get like this.

As deep as deer’s leg, we can go

Peaceful night

It was cloudy…

tea break with french chef

deer carpet and big stove

making water from icing mound

overflow

 

 

Beautiful ice cellar at Evenie village Sasur: cellar is typically 3m in depth

 

entrance of the cellar

 

Icing blister (pressurized river ice) was developed next of the ice road

 

Mink

 

interesting garter

 

only one restaurant within 300km

 

ice wedges and icicles

 

 

 

So many troubles always…

 

15m deep ice cellar at Zalanka along the Kolyma River

 

Horses are hard time in deep snow

 

Another cellar

 

A lots of water in the gasoline

 

Overnight in storm

 

Outer coat for the car

 

Beautiful blue light at Moma mountain

 

Oymyakon was record low temp (-71.2dC) in 1926

School at Zalanka

 

Soviet time horizontal cellar for community Tomtor

 

Yakut Olympic!!

 

Nice to have a fresh bread after the work

 

 

Normal operation at Tomtor

 

the famous monument for the pole of the cold

 

Oymyakon school

 

Oldest ice cellar (100 years ago) in town

 

Openwater at coldest village

 

 

 

Pingo at central Yakutua

staying small village is a lots of fun!

 

Road side cafe

 

 

 

Going to ice cellar with school principal

 

_43 C drilling

 

restaurant Alaska!!! good food

 

Ust-Nara school…gold rush town like Fairbanks

 

driving winter road

 

Once a temperature drop -50C, every metal making problems