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ensure quality spanish find out more visit eye to eye. not everyone can say they've been on top of the world's books if you are in russia you could have better chance than most there are only eight countries on the planet that stretch above the arctic circle and this is one of them and if you go to the right spots you can see the most spectacular light show want to be a little rude boy all this it was midwinter and i was taking the scenic route for the next thirty six hours. but according to this the further north we go the less they like time actually get up and saying because we should be arriving in moments in the middle of that poland nights that is forty days almost total don't see. but up here even when it's pitch black. it

can still be beautiful. i was heading to a famous observatory and my polar express was well on its way. hi james welcome to the observatory yes but again we've been looking at the aurora here for ages come in and make yourself at home and later we'll put you in the picture. they've been studying the order up here for more than fifty years so i'm never going to have a better chance in russia to see it's them right now i just have to wait. let me show you where our engineers view the information from. this camera takes pictures of what's going on in the sky. we also get information about. high

frequency variations in the magnetic field on the field all these phenomena of what's connected to the aurora. area the. north magnetic poles. that serves as the source for particles. are a gift of nature. to space if you. trees can be seen here in the north if you study the northern lights closely. summarized. is quite moderate.

because it takes. two days to travel from. those permanently days can be very long if you're not used to them and you decided to introduce me to one of the popular local posts on. well we're not exactly surrounded by shops out here so for us food in the lab is in role of the sort supply and he has invited me to try a little night fishing so we're going to see. if we can get him by saying. you know people here really enjoy fishing during the long pole and they get so

carried away by it that they become oblivious to anything else if you're lucky enough to catch one you'll enjoy eating it it tastes good you wouldn't want to eat any other kind of fish there's nothing like it and it was nothing tastier than fish caught in a long pole a night so no pressure then but fortunately jaroslav turned out to be a very good teacher. used. to go by he's used. to let me go oh you're lucky. that's a beautiful fish. it's a dog fish. it's very healthy because it has all sorts of vitamins a little hard to find in the winter that's why we're from it and feel it's too and don't fish liver is simply delicious. but big.

that's a big fish indeed. we dinna safely stowed away and we headed back to the observatory to check on the forecasts and fortunately the aura can be very unpredictable and it seemed that once again we were going to be out of luck. i could see that everyone was starting to flag us if we weren't going to see the northern lights at least we could hear about them. and was on them and as the. yak about those would know but you'd know. is must be yours.

but i didn't do that. unless the new little wooden limit you're. going to love below will find out of the. gorillas. who was there do you good but i. don't let you. know. we apes we sang we studied and everyone slept except me i've never been awake more than forty eight hours in my life but up here i just couldn't drop off i put it down to excitement but i was starting to feel seriously unwell and by the time day three rolled around i knew i was going to have to get

some help. james must a problem. called sleep and it's been already three nights it's just carry out a few tests then we'll try to help you. out . let's go to the well james to your more or less ok. but it seems that the bowler knight has this effect on you because your level of adaptation has only just breached a. new c.n.n. . your actual age is thirty four but our machine after all the tests shows twenty nine but you. do so in

a sense you've become the younger in the north. moment apprised of that use is not feeling too well. folks who are trying to help you with our relics ation methods. you. are searching. also while we commend you activate the right side of your brain to st listen to music don's right but also stick to a diet try to be the flu that northern people traditionally eat.

it seems that the. so-called polar stress is very common to visitors at this time of year when it's as bleak and cold as this on the street it's pretty easy to see why. riding a local trolley bus it was clear that i wasn't the only one who was feeling exhausted i wanted to get better and so it was time to take some of my doctor's advice. in the restaurant not only has one of the best views but also serves up some of the best food in moments local businessman has lived here for almost fifty years and has his own theories on how to survive the polar nights. sort of the last for forty days you people get tired of it because they don't know what to do. during the polar night you have to move a lot and eat well of course it's important to eat well and sometimes when you get stressed you just have to drink one hundred grams of vodka. well they

say that overeating can be one of the side effects of seasonal affective disorder but i can tell you now this is going to make me feel a whole lot better. but . you can see cranberries berries and others all of them a source is a victim and local food is rich in proteins like this. always fresh because it's brought here from where it's bread what you have on your plate is freshly salted salmon and it takes seven minutes to sultan it's my own invention you know as a result of all of it i'm into nutrients are preserved it's a very healthy food. still several courses moments certainly seemed

a whole lot. although admittedly it's had help from the powers that be to try to add a little sparkle to the docks at the center. of a fishing i've only been working here for about this but we've had four different designs even though it is a polar night and i anchor a boat some fish and waves because everyone loved it but what's more important these are made with fairly decent so they last for a long time they save energy and are less expensive so we also save money. maybe it was the good food maybe it was the lights in the gigantic christmas tree but my depression of the last few days i'm going to feel strange euphoric. then my new friend fled team in the promise me had another person's way of making

me feel better. almost everyone in russia loves a fine yeah buts much like the climate the men of movement make it a little extreme. here we go. let's make believe a little hotter. right now and this is where i think all options are completely bloody insane. turn around turn around quickly and run back to the money. sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something

else you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything is ok. i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. wealthy british style. markets. can. find out what's really happening to the global economy with much stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to cause a report on. me a. little

. bit. i was starting to get used to the twenty four hour don't miss some peer in the far

north. i was just a tourist more than three hundred thousand people live here year round and many have their own way of making the long winters a little more bearable. so it isn't said i'm going to tell you about how interior decorations should be fashion to match the conditions prevalent in the far north considering that it's pitch dark outside we have to have as much light as possible inside in this flat we use one hundred ten lamps to provide good lighting and she. requested him in this flat wheeled bright color as we have yellow because it's known to affect people in a good way and evoke positive emotions. we have also used purple because it's a color and that's bright makes

a still more optimistic. bicycle that we have many flowers in this flood to create even though the artificial well the feeling of warmth and summer. ok done. much better well i'm a bit dog outside but at least we've broadened out the inside a bit. and if you're looking for really bright buildings here's one can be seen for miles around . of all the things you might expect to find north of the arctic circle of botanical gardens probably isn't high on the list but it just goes to show that with a little ingenuity anything west anywhere.

there are more than a thousand tropical plants here from all over the world and over the years the scientists and botanists of work to adapt to the arctic conditions. also the latest in is a bite out of the right conditions for plants in sign the arctic circle during the polar night are created thanks to special lighting and special lamps this is done so that local residents can see what plants you can grow and tell themselves that they can always have such plants and their houses to generate a good mood and lots of positive emotions. and if you're feeling that you're lacking that all important little and see why not pick up your very own lemon tree. would bring up all here james try real policy lemony grown here in the north well first

of all. i see a lot to keep discovery at bay her while. mormon schools only founded in one nine hundred sixteen but there have been people living in surviving up here for thousands of years and the sammy europe's northernmost indigenous tribe of the room techniques for getting through the winter. oh which is that the load james nice to meet. you come from far away. anyway welcome will heat you some t.v. get you warm get to know each other. a lot of these winter nights are very harsh for us. we've only got three and

a half hours at our disposal. so to begin with we use that time to inspect our reindeer and count them. aside from that we also do some stitching. and we make different things like these little things made from bone used to untie knots we also make bales it's man's work so we do many things with our hands. the samis tradition and there are have long since moved beyond their villages and for almost forty years they've had their own higher educational institution dedicated to preserving the craft. the national college has more than one hundred students from across the region who come to study and teach others about the sami way of life they work with traditional materials such as reindeer words. and as my doctor had

advised that working the right hand side of my brain would protect against any further polish stress it seemed like a perfect place to get creative. after people were done with household chores like reindeer slaughter fishing and gathering berries in autumn would be the sami families dedicated their time to working creatively towards. they found the time to decorate utensils and nine years and other things. and i guess maybe it's the creative work we see today that helps those people to survive jury in those long and cold poland nights. which. just about managed to shake off my polar stress and i've seen how the local people deal with theirs it was time to head back to the observer train my dad

a call from jaroslav and the aurora was coming i round two am we drove out and i checked the prognosis with the labs chief astronomer. ok so you know what we have what's been going so this is spitzbergen the koehler peninsula it's got all the way from the north to the color peninsula we should be able to see it at the horizon but it is and this is the color peninsula this is the southern boundary of the overall for polar lights we can see everything on the map our forecast works everything's great. i set my camera and waited and just under an hour later the most spectacular light show on earth began.

wow. this is incredible i can see why so many people say this is one of the few things they want to see before they die. i'm at the top of the world and i feel on top of the world right now. i know people see unusual things in the aura but for me it seemed like a herd of different animals was almost moving across the sky it was one of the most amazing things i'd ever seen and i couldn't have been more grateful to jaroslaw of sergei and the colleague from n.t. and she got of. i knew nothing was going to to compare. seeing the northern lights but i still had a few days left before i had to be back in moscow. time enough to take up bloody mess on another one of his office. we have

a few slips him on one of them is set aside for training. this one is for beginners it's eight hundred metres long but he's a liberal so three slopes the first scares with very high skill levels in the skiing gives you adrenaline and you come here just ski you forget about being tired and sleepy during the long polar night and you go to work full happy and ready for another day what would you do assuming you don't break your leg of course i don't have been skiing a few times before and certainly never a night still he did say it was for beginners. he wasn't wrong about the adrenalin rush and being exactly able to see where you're

going so there's a bit of extra spice. it seems that come night or day everyone up a lover's their winter sports and it's the theme for this year's snow village one of the region's most popular tourist attractions. i've actually been covering the winter olympics down in sochi and it's great to see their old slee getting into the spirit of things up here as well quite frankly if the people of the north can ski through polar nights then bring back a few gold medals should be no problem at all. village is designed from scratch every year by a team of talented field is a notice and each one has the chance to create something close to the heart.

and that about course well sometimes you're in low spirits you just want everything to go to hell and leave this place for good but then a soon as you see the sun's rays again for the first time the depression goes away and you're filled with happy feelings once again you want to live here of all places and once again you become aware of your devotion to this place. also for the long cold annoyance this was the first flights of the new year and i was taking it in with the people who valued it most here over the centuries the sami but with only a few minutes to enjoy it we had to make the most of it ah the sun takes more

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with a lawsuit. here's. the way celebrate the first law and how. it was time for me to head for the train back to moscow. but travelling through deep snow drifts even in daylight isn't exactly easy unless of course you could a few experts taking the leap. over. these intense polar nights. but i got to see the aura borealis i must said the first light of the new year with the sally and i think there's only

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