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further —— uygher. at least six people have been killed in a crash in texas. some viewers may find some of the images distressing. a scene of carnage, this mangled heap of carnage, this mangled heap of more 130 vehicles and a community grieving with many lives lost and 60 people injured. lives lost and 60 people in'ured. ~ ., ., injured. we are coming to you today with _ injured. we are coming to you today with heavy _ injured. we are coming to you today with heavy hearts. - injured. we are coming to you today with heavy hearts. the | today with heavy hearts. the scene we saw today is wonder probably unlike any of us have ever seen and when we pray to god we never see again. my heart is broken for this community as we deal with the tragic— community as we deal with the tragic loss of so many lives and — tragic loss of so many lives and so _ tragic loss of so many lives and so many injuries in a scene like none — and so many injuries in a scene like none of— and so many injuries in a scene like none of us have ever seen before — like none of us have ever seen before so _ like none of us have ever seen before. so many people have lost loved ones i had them

injured _ lost loved ones i had them injured and that pain isjust incredible. this whole community will feel that pain. they— community will feel that pain. they need your love and they need — they need your love and they need your— they need your love and they need your prayers to get through this.— through this. this is a snapshot _ through this. this is a snapshot of _ through this. this is a snapshot of the - through this. this is a | snapshot of the horror through this. this is a - snapshot of the horror on folding. vehicle after vehicle unable to avoid impact. the scene eventually spanning around a kilometre. emergency crews worked for hours on end, systematically making their way through the tragic rack. bitter through the tragic rack. after the initial _ through the tragic rack. after the initial scene _ the initial scene stabilisation, after all of the victims they were able to be found, all of the cars that were able to be searched were searched. the scene was turned over to the fort worth police department in orderfor over to the fort worth police department in order for them to be able to conduct their investigation.— investigation. that investigation - investigation. that investigation likely investigation. that i investigation likely to investigation. that - investigation likely to be as complex as the recovery effort. police believe ice was a factor but say they are only in the preliminary stages.

and now it is time for the travel show. this week we look back at some of our coldest adventures. from frozen hotel rooms... ain't gonna lie about it, it's cold. to ride across siberia. people who live there, they say you will lose your face on your first day. and my solo bobsleigh ride. i could go again, right now, let's go. hello and welcome to the travel show, coming to you this week from...

..my living room, here in hertfordshire. 0rdinarily at this time of year we would be well into the ski season in europe, and i would be braving sub—zero temperatures to get out there and bring you some of the best snowbound adventures from around the world. this is really very nice. i can't imagine it'll be warm whenever we get out though. we might not be able to go anywhere just at the moment, but that doesn't stop us looking back at some of our favourite adventures, some of them at below freezing temperatures. like the time a couple of years ago that ade went to the famous swedish icehotel, not exactly the place you would want to get locked down for a couple of months i'd say. it's not what i was expecting. i was expecting an igloo or something like that. for more than 25 years we've been building igloos here.

it's been a winter project, a seasonal project. but this is our permanent... it is new. it's the first season that we're running the icehotel 365, a permanent ice hotel. why have an ice hotel all year round? because people want to do it. seriously? simple answer. when you're this far north of the arctic circle, there's daylight for 2h hours during the summer, and the icehotel has found a way to harness that energy, bizarrely, to keep temperatures inside below freezing. look at this! it's like a winter wonderland. there are 20 rooms in this new, permanent hotel, each uniquely sculpted by artists from all over the world. so it'sjust me, and my

beautiful ice bed. who's in here? 0h, hello, ade. ijust made your room ready. oh, wow! what temperature is it in this place? minus five. it reminds me of my first councilflat, when i couldn't afford heating. laughs. you will become very nostalgic when you sleep here. because the room is literally freezing, you need special gear to survive the night, including a sleeping bag that can withstand temperatures of —25 centigrade. this is your bed. you have a normal mattress but the frame is ice. will this keep me warm enough in —5 degrees? yes. this sleeping bag is for winter purpose. i'm lucky enough to have a suite, which comes with a warm bathroom.

if you panic and you can't stand it, you can hang out in here as well. oh, i geta warm room! yeah. of course, i won't be spending much time in the warm room, other than to just get in. my guide, stefan gives me some advice. what people usually do, they go with their whole head. breathing becomes moist inside your sleeping bag and moist makes you colder, so the best way is to keep your face in the open. keep your face in the open? yeah, and breathe out in the air. enjoy your cold night. thanks, stefan i'll be just chilling here. look, there's pros and cons to this. the great thing about it is, it's beautiful in here. look around! and also, the silence is just incredible.

so peaceful. but it's cold. i ain't hiding, i ain't going to lie about it. it's cold. ade there, sleeping on a block of ice in kiruna. things are going to stay cold as we head to siberia where temperatures can reach —60 celsius, to meet a man who motorbiked 1,000 kilometres to a place that has been declared the world's coldest village. between yakutsk and 0ymyakon is 1,000km. so i travelled 200km per day. so remote. nothing around, just mountains, forest, tiger and cold. it is the permafrost land. when i started on the first day, yakutian, siberian people

who live there said, "please don't do that." karolus, you will lose your face on the first day. the frostbite will eat you. even though i had a helmet and some protection, motorcycling in winter on the road doesn't promise to save your life. i was riding for hours along. what is happening inside my head, i call it sometimes active meditation. riding in such hard conditions, so cold, i have to be only now in here because if i give a chance to myself to think 0k, where will be warmer, i am hungry, i will get food and so on, then it becomes so cold that it is impossible to ride. i have to accept all of this cold, and completely relax, otherwise it doesn't work. 0n the third day of my ride i really had a feeling of oh, i'm home.

there is no hotel at that night, i received a little tent with a small stove inside. that night was 48 degrees below and inside the tent we measured —13. (bleep) cold, inside the tent you want to relax. but then i said ok guys, let's go out and see into the night. most of us was like, i have never seen sky like this. actually feeling like we are in space somewhere. the last 30 kilometres was so mentally tough for me. in one moment i opened the throttle more, you know, 100, 120 kilometres an hour, steering started to freeze so i could see i could not move it. i started to look for the straight lines, not to use it too much. and then i arrive and i saw the sign, 0ymyakon.

no thought, emptiness, ok, i'm here. when it is —55, the town looks pretty empty. and then maybe one hour later, it is done. the last thing left is to have a swim in the river. and you will be pleased to know that karolus survived that freezing dip in the river, and has been continuing his journeys around the globe. we caught up with him recently for an update. hello, hello, thank

you for having me here. what happened since the coldest ride? a couple of seasons went through, and i had some interesting rides. one of them was around the world in a0 days on a motorcycle, it's around 1,000 kilometres every single day, and a few flights over the oceans. i went around the south of india on a motorcycle, 3,000 kilometres in nine days. the traffic actually was mad, mad traffic in india. ok, so what's next, within this pandemic? still, the situation around the region is all these bubbles of the countries where we can fly and drive and visit, probably it will be probably close north, i hope it will be finland, hopefully very very soon i will be on the north, in the cold again.

not only riding, but having a cold swim. cheers, good luck. amazing. now stick with us, because still to come: we enter an endangered glacier. i can't believe how beautiful it is. and i try a bobsleigh run headfirst. wish me luck. so don't go away. we are heading now to the swiss alps, home of course to some of the world's most spectacular mountain scenery. but it is also where global warming has had a shocking impact on a centuries—old tourist attraction. a few years agojo went

to discover what is happening. this is the tiny village of gletsch in the swiss alps, and it owes its existence and name to the rhone glacier that sits above the valley. the word "gletscher" means glacier in swiss german. this mass of ice is one of the largest in switzerland, and also the source of the river rhone. in the mid—19th century people started to come here from all over europe to see the glacier. at that point, even in summertime, it stretched all the way down to the village.

now the view is very different. and you can see on this signpostjust how far it used to reach. in 1856, iwould have been literally standing on the glacier. it is strange to think that now i can't really see very much, just a tiny bit of ice at the top of the mountain. the scale of the ice melt is extreme. between 1856 and 2010, the glacier receded by more than 1,400 metres. as the ice has retreated, a new glacial lake has formed. we walked down to a spot where you can see right underneath the glacier.

wow, unbelievable. you can see it. so blue. you can see here. it is all loose, isn't it, the ice? yes. i can't believe how quickly the water is pouring down from underneath the glacier. every few seconds, whole chunks of ice are tumbling down from the top of it. it's quite heartbreaking, really. if it keeps melting back, it will affect tourism in this region. most who visit come to visit the carving done annually since 1870.

here we are in the heart of the rhone glacier, this space here. it is so peaceful here. it feels like a church of ice. for years, uv resistant blankets have been used to slow the melt. this technique has been repeated across europe, and recently in china. but since we visited, the swiss government has warned that unless carbon emissions can be reduced, 90% of the remaining glaciers will have melted by the end of the century. next, we are heading north of the arctic circle, to finnish lapland, and christmas may have come and gone, but there are still plenty of reindeer to be found there, as ade discovered.

this is a popular winter wonderland. it is so beautiful out here. everywhere you look is just a postcard. there are more reindeer in lapland than people. there are around 200,000 of these animals, and most of them roam free. but some of them, like these ones, are tamed and specially trained for the reindeer safaris. just a little blanket. finally, it's my turn to have a go. if you want to go, you just say "go." so i just say "go?" as simple as that? go, go, reindeer, go! he's not listening to me! go, reindeer!

go! i can't say i didn't try, but this reindeer is just not interested. maybe we take the next one. 0k, we take the next one. before i set off, eric gives me some last few tips. just pull it. then he will stop in an emergency? then he will stop. that's my handbrake. yeah, baby! we're going! look at this, controlling this powerful beast. my gosh, he is picking up speed! go, go!

this is so spectacular. my first—ever sleigh ride. i don't know how much this sleigh weighs — it is probably around half a ton, maybe a little less — but that reindeer is pulling it, as well as myself, so easily. such a powerful beast. let's go, son, let's go! it still might not be the fastest ride, but it seems to be the smoothest and most magical way to enjoy this landscape. to finish up this week, no doubt one of the most intense experiences i have had on the travel show. a couple of years ago, i went to latvia, to visit a bobsleigh run that's used by winter 0lympians and the odd tourist who's brave enough to give it a go. and for some reason, the producer decided that included me. welcome to sigulda's bobsleigh track, one of the very few in the world where tourists can get the same adrenaline rush as professional racers. built under the soviet union in 1986, the track has played host to international competitions in luge, skeleton, and bobsleigh rides,

with some obvious success. the track is now used as a training venue for several latvian champions, but there are no competitions on today, which is lucky for me, because it means i can try it out. but having a look, i don't feel so lucky. ok, let's go. get the team together... we're about to set off 100km down a very icy hill, but, luckily, i have an expert pilot. fingers crossed everything goes very smoothly. apart from the pilot steering the bobsleigh from the front, a team also includes pushers and a brakeman. but tourists get it easy — theyjust need to duck and hold very tight.

this track is almost 1,500 metres long and you need a pretty strong stomach to manage its 16 curves. oh, man! whoo! i think that is one of the most intense experiences of my entire life. that was like being in a very, very active, very cold tumble dryerfor a minute and a half. i don't even know how long it was. that was completely insane. another winter sport that can take your breath away is this, the skeleton. imagine a luge with no brakes or steering aid that you ride headfirst. martin and tomass are brothers,

and they are both world and olympic champions in this sport. it is our home track and we did many runs here. for learning, it is great. i agree, because if you learn and you can survive here, then you can survive anywhere. you must love the sport to devote so much of your life to it. what do you love about it? i don't like trainings and this stuff, but i love competition. so that is the best part for me. i don't think i'm ready to try one of the full—blown skeletons, but there is a tourist version available but is a little more my speed. wish me luck! it's called a frog, and for this one, there is no

crew to make me feel safe. 0h! oh my goodness! oh my god! a very cool experience in latvia, but fair warning — it is not for the week of stomach. that is it for the week's programme, but coming up next week, we look at dubai's world expo, postponed in 2020, but set to go ahead this year, with 11 million visitors

expected. we find out how plans at this huge event space are taking shape. and we find out if south korea's popular fortune tellers can guide us through the months ahead. after this year, it is a golden time for you. a golden time for me? i like the sound of that. very nice. in the meantime, keep up with us on the bbc travel accounts. from me, christa larwood, here at home, and from the rest of the team and theirs, it's bye—bye.

hello there. after another very cold night, although not quite as cold as wednesday night, it's going to start frosty again through this morning with some ice to watch out for on untreated surfaces. plenty of sunshine through today, but there will be some snow showers — these continuing to affect the north—east of scotland and the north—east of england. a bit more cloud as well in towards the northern isles. and cloud further west will tend to break away as this drier air moves in from the south—east, so, many places should see the sunshine. now, another very cold day when you factor in the wind, which will be a feature throughout friday. it's going to feel much colder than these temperatures suggest, sub—zero for all areas. now, as we head through friday night, skies will be clear, so those temperatures will fall away again. we'll continue to see some snow showers grazing past eastern scotland and north—east england. the cloud and snow showers and strong winds push on into the northern isles, and then over to the west, a band of sleet and snow will start to make inroads into northern ireland, the very far south—west of england.

so, here, less cold than it will be elsewhere. another widespread hard frost for many of us. now, as we move through the weekend, you'll notice the orange colours, the milder air will start to very slowly creep its way eastwards. and by sunday, many areas will be less cold, certainly away from the east and south—east. so, through saturday, it's a cold, frosty start, plenty of sunshine. but further west, this band of sleet and snow will very slowly make progress. but still some uncertainty on how far east it will get. but we've got early yellow warnings in force for parts of wales, northern ireland, western scotland, north—west england for some snowfall accumulations there. it'll be quite wintry, in fact, with the risk of ice too. further east, we'll have the sunshine, but it's going to be a very cold day. when you factor in the strong south—easterly wind, it's going to feel bitterly cold. in fact, it may feel as low as —10 celsius when you factor

in the wind. now, as we move out of saturday into sunday, you can see plenty of isobars on the charts coming in from the south, almost reaching gale force across northern and western areas. and the weather fronts as well will start to make better progress eastwards, so we should see more in the way of rain. milder air will be pushing in by this point, although the very far southeast may stay bright and quite chilly on the east coast. further west where we'll see that milder air, eight or nine degrees. milder still into next week, double figures for many. quite wet, though, for the first half of the week, turning a little bit drier for the second half.

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