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

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

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a borealis the northern lights dance. the parking lot in told vic in northern norway invade vic dolmen and her fellow students prepare for an excursion together with their teacher lars clem pic the students were about to embark on survival training but according to the weather forecast a heavy storm was approaching. 4 o'clock pm. local time. 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. 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. is almost polson all around had also packed something else. you know that there's like this is a reindeer skin right this person store air between its hairs so it becomes really warm and minimal not only from the middle develop that's why it's so nice to lie on it. and why the saami have been doing it for thousands of years ago if you double. 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 find 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 ref bad 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 with your father but off.

wind downs the approaching storm. the students were instructed to form perez 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 and. both equipment and people kept slipping down the hill but nobody was injured. a force 10 storm was raging but that didn't franzl mara after all it was why she

had booked the survival course and back you up 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 that sad because you could one day find yourself alone in a similar situation 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 best shelter after 5 hours of scraping and shuffling that cave 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 so. if he added our present forms condensation what 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. 80 evening 8 snow caves were ready. i have i think we've done everything we can to have a good night but we have really good sleeping bags will underwear up and really warm socks. everything is going to be just fine. obama's are so i thought this.

freedom are and were feeling groggy they decided to turn in for the night. what are you. going to.

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 said f. tail nobody minds that show on the contrary the volunteers cut the ice of the shell left the old never into manageable blocks and build a proper ice water cooler 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 luxe a daring spirit it was jaco who had the idea for the crazy contest. that all across the middle they isis 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 come you thought of . nothing you can enjoy everything that nature has to offer here. you're not complicated at all you 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. if you. do.

the following stroom has been an avid ice water swim now 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. that crayon it's beautiful it's cold and it's the reason i always look forward to winter so much on what because i get to experience this woman on the house. eve i was ready to take on tomorrow's relay race. together with frost loving friends the article founded the happy friends of a 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 cannon camp ahead reflected on the blissful joy she feels in the icy river yeah yet it can numb me that order that you know must sit

there you can't pick. your heart and then can't guess you 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 come mr. next it was john's turn. his ode to cold revealed that he was more experienced with the fine arts than with ice water. and that there are certain colds and joy. if i see the lighted start up once i hear the sound of

a great winter nor are alarms joyous northerns no late. john finished his poem but his shaky delivery didn't get into 1st place that spot went to current with her cool disregard of the prevailing temperatures that never was. there. after the real sport began the next morning. a bag from a well known swedish company was repurposed as a flag for the race. to. the temperature was a balmy 18 degrees celsius below 0 searing the 1st championship it had been under totally a minus 34 letters for the spectators seem to feel a little cold on this one as we are ever closer to get off to ensure lefty all

those who don't get into the icy pool a scene a softies in yonkers defends his job as ochen eyes are 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 ticked more i like going alone in the water we are not it can be dark too many different i know but there are other people who also like ice dips i do it's wonderful it's fantastic for now this is something completely different but fantastic all the same from part of the. organ for the biggest event of the year

and she left it all ends with the award 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 including evolve course for her this is the perfect way to enjoy the nordic winter the 2nd there was even me 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 you know. it will. stay out. of. the old.

york mockin sweden is one of a cultural centers for the samei the indigenous people of sup may. caterina m.p. 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 it's people who are called lapps but like most samir kuntar arena 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 belong to or what i really wanted mean that many of my classmates went to stockholm to find a good job there yes that my inner voice told me that isn't for you so you're 14 so i moved back home. this is where i belong i moved back and haven't regretted it for a 2nd. task here from perth. caterina's husband is a reindeer breeder they have 2 children so there's a lot of work to do at home nevertheless cats are ina goes into the forest almost every day at minus 23 degrees celcius her cheeks tingled but she still couldn't resist visiting the forest. for the her to me and. this is my studio so to speak. this is where i go to find peace and inspiration and they are so.

near i feel alive. even 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. the here 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 how your king skills which is similar to yodeling and an important element in some a culture. too soon or we have 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. many ancient stories but caterina also improvises others in her so-called studio. no. there are no. there are. very. they're not. there.

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the norwegian russian border a region steeped in history lies near the town of kid canis. sometime collini and is out on the norwegian yard fiord less than 10 kilometers from the border town is russian but has lived in kid can this for a long time he met his no wait in friend while out i stifling. here the 2 men were travelling to a wreck they wanted to dive down to they knew it wouldn't be easy. for. them to own 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 bore hole was sufficient for the anchor at a comparatively mild of 12 degrees below 0 celsius for ya fjord and wasn't completely frozen over. the 2 men. have undergone extensive specialized training and on both experienced ice divers. go over to your car so you ai says frozen very nicely here again so that you can never see it like this from above. this is unique really there if there is you every time it looks different the old war is over. and it's incredibly beautiful when the sun hits the ice and the rays are then broken up in the water would that you just said to me look 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 or thicker to talk. to 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 the your home phone bomb a german military freighter that was sunk during the 2nd world war. while

begun was checking entrances and hatches for possible diving routes he came upon a king crab these crabs are a delicacy and they're not very fast movers. biarne took note of the spot on the jacket and continued swimming. world. the entrances to the wreck prove tricky bjarne wasn't yet sure if anton could risk taking tourists here. but a few minutes later the un had come to the conclusion that 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. move and eat corvair dinner for that day. all. back of the surface gun stashed the crab on the ice floe he needed to be alone for a little tradition of here's

a walk on the underside of the ice. dam song stowed away the equipment. he's all too familiar with king crab scrolls. now the claws are quite dangerous the crab can't move them quickly but want to grab something with them it keeps on squeezing like a hydraulic press you know they're e it could cut off your finger in water but that is. just a few years ago king crabs well a veritable plague. in these days we don't often find crabs this big anymore. previously they come from the order of the 10 leg lock started their claws evolved from legs over time through evolution one

of the bush but 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 greater than 30 would i so if we put all of these together 123 and so on we have 10 in all like a lobster to be. loyal to the knowing. i'm drifting back to russia with gentle irony on tone eluded to the uneasy feeling many my wages 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 anton chooses to hop back on to the norwegian ice.

that night he young people and would cook that crab on the diving tourists could start coming to a successful day. here

the norwegian town of altar to 18 year old girls headed into the forest with their dogs. good ok pig i'm casey act and we're going to hunt and fish all weekend long they were going to sleep in a tent at minus 21 degrees celsius. what they all are after we have respect but we're not afraid i know what we have to do to not freeze but you have to have respect for the cult if you don't things

become difficult right. now. although she's still a teenager good o. 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. 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 they were staying warm post cross-country skiing high that at what. there is no business when there's this much snow it's really hard to pitch a tent that's why we have to create a halfway solid ground here 1st by stomping. and it's important that the ground is completely flat and is even as possible all. 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. as you're 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 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 o. found traces of snow grouse here on past trips and the 2 girls are in luck fresh tracks in the snow. oh.

the guy has built a trap. they put young branches in the snow because snow grouse love the fresh buds on the. only one passage leads through the tangle of branches with a very thin snag inside. then once that this is your hardest parts because now i have to fasten the noose there how do you i want the bird to get caught in it but it's very important that you don't do anything wrong with the noose that's all the knock it has to be big enough. and has to be attached very firmly 6. this is going to be now it's ready let's say the nooses about the size of an orange

. it should hang about 4 fingers high above the ground then we have to fix the branches. you like this flatten it so the grouse can run through them now with a hole. so. the next morning before breakfast you know and casio hope to warm up dance known all

over norway the button factory. part of our house out to. some of their friends are thinking about moving south towards low or back him or even abroad after high school but not google or i thought a bit ago 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. know stuff like come to. that trapped quarter but during the night. i don't feel sorry for it go and cast you have 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 no natural food and live only so that you can make meat out of them this is much better i mean met. fueled by their success the next one to catch a trout they've been told there are many in this lake. when. 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 the. concept it was a real challenge because it was so cold. oh

well mare and it's been a long time since i've been on a tour and temperatures like these i thought. but now i have 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 it was really interesting to catch the grouse and we almost saw the sun though i do wonder what do you so it's really very nice. they're going to have on the go up there maybe not seem like it but we're just regular kids who do stupid and silly things like oh she's got a fish. girl and grew up in nature and with nature. they're not squeamish.

found their own ways up for fun. org. here in the far north people how to pull up for that with as i.

have more room. these parents have fond memories of their daughter who has now transition. in a sense of self did not agree with the body it was assigned to earth so. it's a difficult task for the entire family. in the wrong body. girl.

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