of 40 degrees celsius in our documentary northern lights life in winter that's coming up next i'm brian thomas for the entire team thanks so much for being with us and don't forget our twitter feed and all of our social media offerings as well up on. the. set. to go beyond beyond. that. we're all about the stories that matter to. accomplish. whatever it takes. people are running now to explain a little nothing how you made for mines.

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. goodly category not freezing and we're doing a snow cave here so far it's going ok at it but my face hurts. these little bits of snow and ice right into your eyes and it.

it's a 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 norway finland and sweden. this is a journey through the frozen north to meet people in the long winter. get

. gas. during the polar nights people roar a boreanaz the northern lights dons. yes

. 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 kemp take the students were about to embark on survival training but according to the weather forecast a heavy storm was approaching. looked at. last is a teacher at the adult education center which only offers outdoor courses but survival training is part of the curriculum. well. the. 20 year old freed up 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

the law says exactly how to motivate his students. guys tomorrow the sun is coming back at last. i made rock. 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 polson all and had also packed something else. that they're like this is

a reindeer skin right because this 1st can store air between its hairs so it becomes really warm and minimal enough for the fundamental to give up 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. modern 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 contacts. 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. you. fredo is from

denmark was snowy mountains all brother ref. 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 product off. to.

wind down to the approaching storm. the students were instructed to form pairs 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 frazzle mara after all it was why she had booked the survival course to get you caught 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 up and 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 it's 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 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 i think it's good 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 we add a lot of our breath 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 of the earth 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 evening 8 snow caves were ready. i think we've done everything we can to have a good night that we have really good sleeping bags will underwear up and really warm socks. everything is going to be just fine. obama's our thoughts on our fiscal peak. freedom are and were feeling groggy they decided to turn in for the night. what are you. going to.

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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 shell f. tail nobody minds that show on the contrary the volunteers cut the ice of the show lefty all revved up into manageable blocks and build a proper ice water pool and i do 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 jaco who had the idea for the crazy contest. that all across the middle there 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 it can really enjoy the cold. 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 but it's great for eddie. murphy. he filed 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 there and the clearance the scene is a unique experience there's nothing like it. that 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 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. reflected on the blissful joy she feels in the icy river yes it can numb you that aura that you know must certainly there you can pick. your heart it can't guess you're the only foreigner among the 4 ice poets was john

who comes from ireland you have never experienced minus 20 degrees celsius before you. see. this poetry slam is popular with the audience it's a welcome alternative to tedious long lectures. you always go and always come miss the. next it was john's turn to says that his ode to cold revealed that he was more experienced with a fine arts than with ice water. and that there are certain code don't join. i see the light didn't start there are times i hear the sound of a great winter not our lives joyous nor learns no great. loss . john finished his poem but his shaky delivery didn't get into 1st place that

sparked went a car in with her cool disregard of the prevailing temperatures that another was far better. after the real sportbike than the next morning. a bag from a well known swedish company was repurposed as a flag for the race. the temperature was a balmy 18 degrees celsius below 0 during the 1st championship it had been undertow chilly minus 34 hours for the spectators seem to feel cold on this one knows. that it was no good at all to ensure lefty all those who don't get into the icy pool a seamless softies in jaco's defense his job as organizer 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 meditating. you are no more to more i'd like walking alone in the water we are not it can be dark too many different 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 be a part of the. dark for the biggest event of the year and she left you know 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 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 funny that you think you will. stay 2 as i. am i. the only.

new york mark in sweden is one of a cultural centers for the summit 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 for 39 year old is samir supplement used to be referred to as lapland and its people were called laps but like most samir kuntar rena rejects these terms as disrespectful like many of her peers she rediscovered her cultural roots on the me father want to walk when my grandmother died i didn't know where i belong to or what i really wanted that many of my classmates went to stockholm to find a good job there with my inner voice told me no 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 untasted 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 cut arina 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 they are so. you know 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 there are not true enough. caterina is famous for 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 something like enables us to pass on our stories from generation to generation and 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 tell ancient stories but caterina also improvises others in our so-called studio.

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hair. the norwegian russian border a region steeped in history lies near the town of kid can s. . i'm torn

cullinane is out on the norwegian yard field in less than 10 kilometers from the border town is russian but has lived in kid chemist for a long time he met his no wage and friend while out ice diving. here the 2 men were traveling to a wreck they wanted to dive down to they knew it wouldn't be easy. it. comes on 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 ya field and wasn't completely frozen over.

the 2 men. have undergone extensive specialized training and on both experienced ice divers. go over to your hearts u.a.i. says frozen very nicely here again. you can never see it like this from above. this is unique really that if there is 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 would say to the secretary you know. there will be a lot of down there it's like you have a roof over your head. 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 the your one followed bomb a german military freighter that was sunk during the 2nd world war. while beyond 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. beyond took note of the spot on the jacket and continued swimming. world around. the entrances to the record proves tricky bjarne wasn't yet sure if anton could risk taking tourists here. but a few minutes later beyond had come to the conclusion that keen divers would be able to cope with the underwater exhaust. before they resurfaced beyond swam back to the king crab he just had to avoid the

claws. not knowing the move and he caught very dinner for that day. back of the surface beyond stash 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. and

sun stowed away the equipment. he's all too familiar with king crabs claws. now the claws are quite dangerous the crab can't move them quickly but want to grab something with that it keeps on squeezing like a hydraulic press if you know their e it could cut off your finger in what i think is. just a few years ago king crabs well a veritable plague here. 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 boys argue 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 with so if we put all of

these together 123 and so on we have 10 in all like a lobster to me. oh you have a little boy. i'm drifting back to russia with gentle irony untold alluded to the uneasy feeling many norwegians 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 onto the norwegian ice. that night he would cook that crab and 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 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 free 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 good o. is already known across nature crazy norway the summer before she hiked several 100

kilometers through supplement 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 i that it was. 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. it's important that the ground is completely flat and is even as possible all that. 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 rare yelled among 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. you don't go out to. early in the evening. 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. the gulls 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. their long that this is the hardest part because now i have to fasten the noose there heidi i want the bird to get hot in it. it's very important that you don't do anything wrong with the noose that's all in the store not 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 noose is about the size of an orange. it should hang about 4 fingers high above the ground. then we have to fix the branches of the way.

you like this flatten it so the grouse can run through them the whole. so. the next morning before breakfast who rowan cassio hope to warm up dance known all over norway the button factory. part of her was that. some of their friends of thinking about moving south she was

low or bad or even abroad after high school but not good oh 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 trap quarter but during the night. i don't feel sorry for it no one can see have take a more pragmatic approach but for a lot although this bird had a great life and this trap is release 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 but this is much better and i mean you met.

fueled by that success they next wanted to catch a trout thanks being told there are many in this lake thank you well. 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 will contact 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 but i will say it was really interesting to catch the grouse and we almost saw the sun oh i do and they 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 he's got a fish. girl and grew up in nature and with nature. they're not squeamish. and they're always up for a fun. game

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