Iceland is said to be the quietest and most peaceful place on Earth, which puts it on the tourism map despite the cold.

And there's perhaps nowhere where that's more evident than in the tiny village of Oymyakon, Russia, regarded by most as the coldest permanently inhabited place on earth. Temperatures average ...

You might think that the UK in January is pretty nippy – and you'd be right – but it's got nothing on the Earth's coldest corners. The extreme temperatures in the South Pole and the Arctic ...

For those inhabiting areas prone to snow and intense wind chill, it's hard to imagine frostier or less favorable conditions. But they exist. Some locations have been abandoned by humans altogether ...

After twisting and turning in snowflake-shapes, the children stride and leap through deep snow, and forge their way through a blizzard. Smooth, cross-country skiing requires good left-right co ...

The effects of the Cold War are felt less in these areas, as ethnic Yakuts are "far more outward-looking than Russians, and don’t carry the sense of wounded pride in the collapse of empire ...

The search for the best observatory site in the world has led to the discovery of what is thought to be the coldest, driest, calmest place on Earth, a place where no human is thought to have ever ...

The coldest countries in the world are known for their freezing temperatures, icy landscapes, and strong, resilient people.

The coldest places on Earth are found at, or close to, the North and South Pole. Mountainous areas are also very cold. Cold environments are found at higher latitudes and higher altitudes.

The capital city of the vast (1.2 million square miles) Siberian region known as the Sakha Republic, Yakutsk is widely identified as the world’s coldest city. “No other place on Earth ...