As our days grow colder, spare a thought for the people of Oymyakon, the coldest inhabited place on our planet. Imagine being at home, waking up, and stepping out of your front door to face minus 50°C temperatures. If that seems like an appealing way to start your day, you'll love holidaying in Oymyakon, located in the north-eastern part of Russia. The coldest ever temperature officially recorded in Oymyakon was a mind numbing minus 67.7°C, accepted as the lowest ever in the Northern Hemisphere in a place proudly referred to as "The Pole of the Cold”. It may not seem real, but this Russian city and its inhabitants are used to it.
When temperatures get this low, your eyelashes actually freeze. It's the kind of cold that hurts your bones. With a day that varies from 3 hours in the winter to 21 hours in the summer and permanently frozen ground due to the extreme subarctic climate, the roughly 500 residents of Oymyakon are mostly unable to grow crops, therefore their diet basically consists of reindeer and horse meat. Yum.