Land Rover drives Defender to the Pole of Cold
You may think it's cold where you are right now, polar vortexes and whatnot, but no matter where you are, you know it's got to be colder somewhere else. Except if you're at the Pole of Cold. The point in Siberia has recorded the coldest temperatures in history, dipping down to -67.7 degrees celsius – that's nearly 90 degrees below on the Fahrenheit scale – in February of 1933, and no walk on the beach the rest of the time, either. That's exactly where this expeditionary team headed in their Land Rover Defender.
The mission was undertaken with support from Land Rover, the Royal Geographical Society and the Institute of British Geographers. The three-man team – consisting of an experienced adventurer, a film-maker and a cold-weather engineer – headed out from the UK, through Scandinavia, above the Arctic Circle, to NordKapp at the top of Europe, and across the Trans-Siberian Highway to Oymyakon, Russia – the coldest place in the northern hemisphere.
Along the way, they celebrated Christmas Day three times, rounded up reindeer with the Skolt Sami tribe, drove on frozen rivers and recorded temperatures as low as -58 degrees C (-72.4 F). Fortunately the Defender, modified with off-road gear and a heater that could operate independently of the engine, didn't let them down, and now the team is on its 10,000-mile way back to England via Kazakhstan and southern Scandinavia.
Reference: autoblog.com
