David Leveille, TheWorld.org ("Expedition Across Frozen Siberian Frontier," Jan. 28, 2013)
![I have just spend a few extra ordinary days with the Even reindeer herders in the coldest inhabited place on earth - Oymyakon. I have traveled with friends and Misja and Kesja, the reindeer herders and 25 reindeer over taiga land of great beauty!](http://pcdn.500px.net/5420780/3da191ee57d09126c14a2bae20f5b1735436d635/3.jpg)
Monday’s Geo Quiz is cold, cold, cold.
We’re looking for the name of a cold Siberian city. It’s the capital of the Russian
Republic of Sakha [as in
Shakya?
Sakka?
Buddhist Kalmykia?] It has on average the coldest winter temperatures for any city in the world. This capital city is also the starting point of a venture nicknamed “Expedition Extreme Cold.” In the weeks ahead, a small team of explorers, reindeer herders, and a
filmmaker [Mikael Strandberg] will trek several hundred miles across a Siberian forest where temperatures get down to minus 75 Fahrenheit....
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