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Arctic Expedition: -61 degrees and very scared

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Uploaded by on Apr 4, 2007

After four days of trekking through the Canadian Arctic, the weather finally forced us to pitch tents and consider turning back... the length of this little movie is the time it took for my camera to freeze...

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  • you are scared? I would say chill but i don't think that would help

  • @berny88925 ... lol... yeah... i think the sense of humour had kinda disappeared!! Straight after this we tried to set up an emergency camp - the blizzard made it so so difficult... trying to clip the tent up was impossible - our hands had frozen into claws.. they were useless... It was impossible to think intelligently... that's what makes it so difficult.. because panic blinds the mind... still... we got through it!! lol

  • mmmm that looks more like -35 to me, it's too windy to be -61. -61 is possible only when the air is very still and in areas far from the sea(like siberia).

  • @sabu85 ... it was -45 ambient plus wind chill which registered -61 on our equipment.... I think you can tell its windy!... ... please do not think we are exagerating!

  • @LydiaPurnell ahahah ok i didn't consider wind chill! :)

  • @sabu85 - that's ok... the wind is what kills... gets through your clothing - no matter how many layers!

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  • After a certain temperature Synthetics begin to lose their ability to repel cold and retain warmth. That is why the Inuit people wear fur for such weather. Nothing is warmer than animal fur there. That must of been damn cold for you. I can not even imagine that type of coldness.

  • Wow... even under all those layers of arctic clothing, you're still as cute as a button! :-)

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  • @LydiaPurnell wow, and lol at the claw... I know its dangerous but I would really like that experience

  • It gets to -40 Celcius pretty much anually in here (Northern Finland). Its just...nasty temperature. -30 is still tolerable but with -40 you just dont want to leave the house.

  • i love cold weather in my country it's now 48 above zero so it's soo00 hot

  • nikol ni -61 ce ne ta nebi mogu dihat!!!k bi mu pluca takoj zmrznla pa oči tud

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