In the village of Oymyakon, the lowest temperature reaches minus 67.7 degrees. Why is the average life expectancy of the locals over 100?

Nowadays, travel has entered people’s horizons. Even if we don’t go out, we will see many classmates and friends in our circle of friends who travel from time to time. Usually tourists go to some popular cities to eat local food, go shopping, etc. There is also a kind of more adventurous tourists who like to go to some special places, such as deserts, islands, Antarctica, etc.

Many adventure travelers like to travel to the coldest places in the world. Nowadays, the coldest village in the world has also begun to enter the horizons of adventurers, and many people have gone to explore it. When we think of the coldest places in the world, we usually think of the Antarctic and the North Pole.

In fact, the coldest endemic diseases in the world are not in the Antarctic or the Arctic, but in the village of Oymyakon in Russia. The average temperature in this village all year round is minus 30 degrees. The lowest temperature in history was recorded in 1933. of minus 67.7 degrees Celsius, and the lowest temperature recently was minus 67 degrees in January 2018. Moreover, the difference between the length of day and night in the local area is very large. In summer, the day can be up to 21 hours long, while in winter, the shortest is only 3 hours.

You must be curious, how do the locals live in such a cold weather? In fact, many tourists have gone there to explore, and there are also many documentaries recording life in the Oymyakon village. Because the temperature is too low, the local foundation is covered with permafrost, so people's houses must be built on underground wooden piles at least 1 meter deep to prevent indoor heat from melting the frozen soil foundation and causing the house to collapse. The doors and windows in the villagers' houses also need to be thickened by four or five layers to keep out the cold. Water pipes are laid on the ground and must be continuously heated by heating stations to prevent freezing.

As can be seen from the documentary, many local residents will freeze as soon as they breathe out while walking on the street, and the hot breath will stick to their eyebrows and eyelashes to form snowflakes. The local indoor and outdoor temperature difference is about 80 degrees. Once people walk into the house from outside, special effects will appear, and snow dances around them, like a fairy.

The weather in this place makes it impossible to grow crops, so the villagers rely on hunting and fishing, and eat meat every day. Although their daily diet is not balanced, the locals are very healthy. In Oymyakon, where the average life expectancy is over 100 years old, you can see old people everywhere on the streets.

In such a cold village, the surrounding buildings are covered with ice and snow. It looks like a snow-white castle. It is very romantic, but it is a bit cold. Do you want to go there and experience it?