Frozen Frontier

About Frozen Frontier

On January 20, 2013, world-renowned Swedish explorer Mikael Strandberg, left his home and set out for the coldest inhabited place on earth, Oymyakon in northeast Siberia where the average winter temperature is -50°C. He, along with the 3 other members of his team, will meet up with a group of Eveny reindeer herders and set out on a historic journey. Traveling over 600km by reindeer pulling sledges, they will explore the most remote parts of Siberia, all the way from the little known mountains of Kolyma to the Okhotsk Sea.

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The Expedition Report

04.11.13

Dear Explorers and Readers, I have just made my way back to Malmö in Sweden where I live after what I would call a fairy tale Expedition!

Lessons Learned from the Cold

04.08.13

“You know you are in extreme cold, when you spit and your saliva turns solid before it hits the ground.”

Expedition Summary

04.05.13

A fairy tale! Almost! It is 4.30 in the morning, I am back in a warm, fresh aired and springy Malmö and I am suffering badly from jet lag.

The Dream of a Shaman

04.02.13

“Yesterday I went to the Sakha Theatre to see The Dream of the Shaman By Alexei Kulakovsky” I told one of the best known shamans in the Republic of Sakha, Afanasiy Semenovich Fedorov, whilst Yura, Nadia and I were filming him at his little office