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winter in northern norway the temperature is minus 17 degrees celsius. the students are learning how to survive in the wilderness. when a heavy storm hits that training exercise became realistically urgent. good link up or not freezing and we're doing a snow cave here so far it's going ok. but my face towards. these little bits of snow and ice blow right into your eyes and it.

the very fun north of europe has fewer inhabitants than anywhere else on the continent and know well our winters longer and hasa than in the north of knowing finland and sweden. this is a journey through the frozen north to meet people in the long winter. get

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. to. the parking lot in told vic in northern norway not invade vic dolmen and her fellow students prepare for an excursion together with their teacher laws campaign the students were about to embark on survival training but according to the weather forecast a heavy storm was approaching i. looked at. last is a teacher at the altar adult education center which only offers outdoor courses but survival training is part of the curriculum. well. 20 year old freedom brockman had been looking forward to this day for weeks like

everyone else here this was her 1st time taking part in this type of training. last knows exactly how to motivate his students. guys tomorrow the sun is coming back at last. country if that iraq. ok. with 20000 inhabitants is the largest town in the north of norway the students travel to tall vic located some 30 kilometers from alter. the group trekked through the forest for 5 kilometers there was hardly any wind but that would soon change almost all of the students were wearing state of the art clothing to protect them from the cold and wet.

zone poles and all and had also packed something else. oh yeah. this is a reindeer skin. this 1st can store air between its hairs so it becomes really warm and minimal enough for you from the middle to give up that's why it's so nice to lie on. and why the saami have been doing it for thousands of years old you. are in came to the north because she wanted to experience the winter here. that that's. the best part of the winter here are the northern lights no contest. how do you. but i also like the snow and cold air. i feel that the only annoying thing is the ice off you slip and fall all the time.

frieda is from denmark was snowy mountains of brother red. that's the beauty of our activities you don't have to be good at them you just have to like them that's the most important thing we don't even want to be fast we just want to have a good time together who fought fatherhood off.

when to announce the approaching storm. and the students were instructed to form pads and dig caves just under the top of this icy slope it sounded simple enough but some had trouble climbing the slope maren and freed up again working their way up sideways. in. both equipment and people kept slipping down the hill but nobody was injured. a force 10 storm was raging but that didn't frazzle mara after all it was why she had booked the survival course to get you caught up the humans were not born to be couch potatoes you can always encounter this type of weather if you go hiking here

in the north that think of it i think it's great to try something like this because you could one day find yourself alone in a similar situation and we're all doing this to test our limits. and. by this time the storm had all of the far north of europe and its icy grip roads were closed and people hid away indoors. finally create a modern food get into the shelter after 5 hours of scraping and shuffling that cage was almost finished.

before joining the outdoor school they'd never experienced polar nights frieda the danish girl was surprised. there were a oh it's scary it's much darker in denmark now right from the start i like the fact that there's so much snow here so it's quite bright at least compared to denmark where it rains all the time in winter. if we add a lot of our present forms condensation which should run down the side of the walls here but that only works if we can get the sailing really round otherwise the water will drop down on us tonight and wake us up just about it. so ok.

outside the storm was raging at minus 12 degrees celsius while inside the cave the thermometer showed a comparatively pleasant 0 degrees. by into the evening snow caves were ready. i think we've done everything we can to have a good night but we have really good sleeping bags will underwear oh and really warm socks. everything is going to be just fine. obama's are so i thought this. freedom modern well feeling groggy they decided to turn in for the night.

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ensure left to sweden the viking spirit lives on at temperatures as low as minus 34 degrees celsius hundreds of people jump into the local reza. for 4 days straight every february the sound of chainsaws fills the center of so left a hole nobody minds though on the contrary volunteers cut the ice of the shell lefty or never into manageable blocks and build a proper ice water pool and i knew a tradition that started a decade ago. $296.00 participants were expected at the official scandinavian winter swimming championship. behind jaco increased discreet appearance

looks a daring spirit it was young who had the idea for the crazy contest. that all across the middle hurt their nicest thing about the swimming tournaments is that we can offer people something like this at all we show people how they can have fun even when it's freezing cold and dark. can you really enjoy the cold can you thought of this or not you can enjoy everything that nature has to offer here. by you not complicated at all just pack a hole in the ice jump in the river and swim 11 or so and that's all there is to it . it's great. to feel. the fall on stroom has been an avid ice water swimmer for 30 years now this was her last training session before the next day's competition. we

are near the end of the clearance the scene is a unique experience there's nothing like it. it's beautiful it's cold and it's the reason i always look forward to winter so much on with you because you get to experience this woman on the hot. eve i was ready to take on tomorrow's relay race. together with crossed loving friends the article founded the happy friends of the cold and dark association. that evening this year's swimming tournament began with an unusual event poetry recitals in the ice each bard recited his or her poem in the ice cold water card in camp reflected on the blissful joy she feels in the icy river yeah can numb really get that order that you know must sit in there you can pick it. your heard it and it can guess you're the only foreigner among the 4 ice poets was john who comes from

ireland he had never experienced minus 20 degrees celsius before. seeing. this poetry slam is popular with the audience it's a welcome alternative to tedious long lectures. always coming. next it was john's turn. his ode to cold revealed that he was more experienced with the fine arts than with ice water. where there are certain cold don't join. i see the light didn't start up once i hear the sound of a great winter nor alarms darrius nor learns no lake. george

finished his poem but his shaky delivery didn't get him to 1st place that spot went to current with her cool disregard of the prevailing temperatures the number was. there. after the real sportbike than the next morning. a bag from a well known swedish company was repurposed as a flag for the race. card. the temperature was a balmy 18 degrees celsius below 0 during the 1st championship it had been under culturally minus 34 hours for the spectators seem to feel cold on this when those realized that it was no good at all to himself f.t. all those who don't get into the icy pool a seamless softies in yoko's defense his job is organize

a meant he couldn't swim today his club entices both experienced athletes and unsuspecting tourists into the bitterly cold pool. according to somewhat reliable sources no participant has frozen here yet contestants even seemed lively and energized after the ordeal oh extra cool like mikhail the ice water meditator. you are no more it more i'd like to being alone in the water we are not it can be dark too many different yet i know that there are other people who also like ice dips. it's wonderful it's fantastic i know this is something completely different but fantastic all the same economic growth for. your friend the biggest event of the year and she left it all ends with the awards ceremony next year the club will again invite the happy friends of dark and cold to an icy dip and several 100

participants will accept intruding evolve course for her this is the perfect way to enjoy the nordic winter the 2nd there are even mia climbing into the icy river and swimming. and my gold medal of course even if nobody else in our age groups ram it down and still it was fun. it will. stay and i. am. the only.

your commodity in sweden is one of the cultural centers for the sonics the indigenous people of sup may. qatari not impede is a well known musician and artist here in winter she spends a lot of her time sketching the 39 year old is samir sup may used to be referred to as lapland and its people were called laps but like most samir kuntar rina rejects these terms as disrespectful like many of her peers she rediscovered her cultural roots on the me far more dog when my grandmother died i didn't know where i belonged or what i really wanted it means that many of my classmates went to stockholm to find

a good job there with my inner voice told me that isn't for you so your food too so i moved back home. this is where i belong i moved back and haven't regretted it for a 2nd. there it's antacid here campaspe. qatari my husband is a reindeer breeder they have 2 children so there's a lot of work to do at home nevertheless carina goes into the forest almost every day at minus 23 degrees celsius her cheeks tingled but she still couldn't resist visiting the forest. for the her i mean. this is my studio so to speak. this is where i go to find peace and inspiration and they are so. here i feel alive. indoors you feel very restricted your thoughts are not as free as here in the forest are coming to. the school i need that

and i think that everyone needs to get out of their own 4 walls away from work. for her because it's important in order to feel that you are a part of nature. and they. are not true enough. caterina is famous for her you're talking skills which is similar to yodeling and an important element in some a culture. too soon or we haven't lived here for 10000 years ever since the inland ice retreated the you like enables us to pass on our stories from generation to generation. it's easier to your ear and reminisce in a bad way than to just stand there telling stories the you like is our way of remembering we had school many

tell ancient stories but caterina also improvises others in her so-called studio. where are. they.

where. do. the in. the world. to end. their. the. the norwegian russian border a region steeped in history lies near the town of kid can't guess.

i'm tuncay leaning is out on the norwegian yar fjord less than 10 kilometers from the border and tom is russian but has lived in kid contests for a long time he met his no wage and friend yeah while out i stifling. yeah the 2 men were traveling to a wreck they wanted to dive down to they knew it wouldn't be easy. on son wanted to find out if he can offer tours for tourists who come here to dive . normally the men would have had to solve their way into the ice but today a boho was sufficient for the anchor. at a comparatively mild of 12 degrees below 0 celsius for the off field and wasn't completely frozen over.

the 2 men have undergone extensive specialized training and all but experienced ice divers. go over to your car so u.a.i. says frozen very nicely here again. you can never see it like this from above. this is unique really suited their vehicle 3rd you every time it looks different the world will you know. and it's incredibly beautiful when the sun hits the ice and the rays are then broken up in the water below woods that you know that's one thing you know. there will be a lot of down there it's like you have a roof over your head you're going to go beyond and you definitely can't get

through that so you have to be a lot more safety conscious to talk. on says he has never panicked when diving in winter no matter how thick the ice above him was. the 2 friends dived down deeper and deeper under the ice to the wreck of your hung flower bomb a german military freighter that was sunk here during the 2nd world war. while beyond was checking entrances and hatches for possible diving routes we came

upon a king crab these crabs are a delicacy and they're not very fast movers beyond took note of the spots on the jacket and continued swimming. around. the entrances to the wreck prove tricky bjarne wasn't yet sure if anton could risk taking tourists here. but a few minutes later yun had come to the conclusion that the team divers would be able to cope with the underwater top.

before they resurfaced beyond swam back to the king crab just had to avoid the claws. court they had dinner for that day. back of the sufis yun stashed the crab on the ice floe he needed to be alone for a little tradition of his a walk on the underside of the ice. i'm

so in stowed away the equipment he's all too familiar with king crab scrolls. but it's no good oval office now the claws are quite dangerous the crab can't move them quickly but want to grab something with their it keeps on squeezing like a hydraulic press in a theory it could cut off your finger if it's commodity what it is but it's. just a few years ago king crabs well veritable plague here. grab hold no more if he stays we don't often find craps this big anymore. piers and they come from the order of the 10 leg lock started their claws evolved from legs over time through evolution was a bush idea they also have a pair of legs that they no longer use. those are hidden here under the shell and help them to reproduce there is no question they're good to go it is so evil we put

all of these together 123 and so on we have 10 in all like a lobster to be. lawyer for telling. time drifting back to russia with gentle irony and tunnel looted to the uneasy feeling many know we germans have about their russian neighbors several people here would like to see anton actually drift back to the shores of mother russia on this flow. but until on chooses to hop back on to the norwegian ice. that night he n.p.r. and would cook that crab and the diving tourists could start coming to

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i am. near the norwegian town of altar 218 year old girls headed into the forest with their dogs who. good ok i'm pink and casey understand we're going to hunt and fish all weekend long they were going to sleep in a tent at minus 21 degrees celsius. all right we have respect but we're not afraid we know what we have to do to not freeze but you have to have respect for the call that if you don't things become difficult right. now although she's still a teenager guru is already known across nature crazy norway the summer before she

hiked several 100 kilometers through sub me on her own. casio has been her best friend since childhood. the girls say that by no means loners on other weekends they go to the movies with their friends all go out and party. thank you. thank. you. after a few kilometers they left the forest path and began looking for a camping site they didn't have an end destination in mind. for.

the girls had been trampling the ground flat for 10 minutes with moderate success so far. a pleasant side effect there was staying warm post cross country skiing i that it was. there is no business when there's this much snow it's really hard to pitch a tent i guess that's why we have to create a halfway solid ground here 1st by stomping. it's important that the ground is completely flat and is even as possible. all that. oh yeah this is the way a good 10 floor should be. 20 minutes later they were ready to pitch that tent the temperature was already minus 24 degrees celsius.

a little older mumbly i don't think you'll ever be immune to the cold but you can get used to feeling cold. i love you know what if you grew up here you probably tolerate the called a little better than if you grew up on say gran canaria. early in the evening. or into a quiet valley they left the dogs at the camp. good oh found traces of snow grouse here on past trips and the 2 girls are in luck fresh tracks in the snow. oh. the ghost built a trap. they

put young branches in the snow because snow grouse love the fresh buds on the. only one passage means through the tangle of branches with a very thin snag inside. then once that this is the hardest part because now i have to fasten the noose. i want the bird to get caught in it. it's very important that you don't do anything wrong with the noose that's all in this to knock it has to be big enough. and has to be attached very firmly that. this is going to now when it's ready let's say the noose is about the size of an orange. it should hang about 4 fingers high above the ground

that we have to fix the branches of the way. you like this flatten it so the grouse can run through them the whole. you know. so. the next morning before breakfast you know i'm casio hope to warm up dance known all over norway the button factory. part of our house out to. some of the friends of thinking about moving south to was

lower back and or even abroad after high school but not good oh oh i thought of it again i couldn't imagine living in a big city yeah we love nature here too much for that you know a lot of you can just go out and do stuff like this speak you. stuff like. 6 that trap quarter but during the night. i don't feel sorry for it no one can see i take a more pragmatic approach but for a lot although this bird had a great life and this trap is really humane it runs in and 2 seconds later it's dead that's very different from for example. chickens so they live in small cages get to know natural food and live only so that you can make meat out of them this is much better and i mean you met.

fueled by their success they next wanted to catch a trout they've been told there are many in this lake. the girls drilled the holes in the ice a few metres apart they reflected on the weekend slowly coming to an end. it's sort of this one well to relax a cart it was a real challenge because it was so cold. oh well mid air and it's been a long time since i've been on a tour and temperatures like these i thought it was. but now i've gained some more

experience. and even though i was freezing at times it's good to know how to dress properly and how to get enough exercise so badly was that it was really interesting to catch the grouse and we almost saw the sun oh i do and are so it's really very nice. they're going to have made it seem like it but we're just regular kids who do stupid and silly things like oh she's got a fish. goodwill and grew up in nature and with nature. they're not squeamish. and they're always up for fun.

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