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8 extraordinary people, who defeated Cold
8 pioneers, athletes and simply enthusiasts who on their own initiative or by accident won the cold.
Naked man may be in the cold at minus 30-35 ° C for half an hour, a maximum of one hour. Prolonged exposure to cold causes the internal mechanisms that are not able to compensate for heat losses, whereby the body temperature begins to fall. Resistance to cold can be improved if regularly hardening of the body, as is done, for example, "walrus". Through "training" cooling of the body is not afraid of the cold and ice water. But their resistance to cold - is not the limit of human capabilities.
Roald Amundsen
Norwegian polar explorer Roald Amundsen almost his entire life engaged in research of the North. On the way to the grand opening of the traveler had to overcome a lot of incredible difficulty. One of the most difficult test awaited polar explorer during his first expedition. The vessel in which the team moved to the South magnetic pole, was stopped by ice. The crew waited for unplanned hibernation for perezhidaniya that on board was not in sufficient quantity or polar clothes, no supply of food. To survive in the harsh conditions, we had to alter equipment in blankets and learn to hunt seals. After 13 months, the ship finally came out from the area of the ice and the researcher, together with other survivors explorers returned domoy.
Andrzej Zawada
Prior to 1979, all climbers tried to reach the summit of the world only in premonsoon or poslemussonny seasons. Change the number of seasons, and add another winter and first tried the Polish expedition led by Andrzej Zawada. After lengthy negotiations with the Ministry of Tourism of Nepal climbers have received permission to climb Mount Everest in the winter season. Winter permit was strictly limited period from December 1, 1979 to February 28, 1980, and not one day more. Despite the tight deadlines, the climbers managed to keep within the allotted time and, after passing through the South Col, climb to the top Everesta.
Lewis Gordon Pugh
British athlete Lewis Gordon Pugh, nicknamed "Polar Bear" prefer swimming in the warm sea water swim in the glacial lakes and the Arctic Ocean. The icy water he plunges not in a special wetsuit and conventional swimming trunks and swimming cap. Feature your body is stored in water at sub-zero temperatures warm the muscles and coordination of movements Briton uses to draw attention to the rapid melting of the ice cover of the Earth and change issues klimata.
Gleb Travin
In 1928, the Soviet traveler went on a bicycle on a long journey along the borders of the USSR, including the Arctic coast. The borders along the Arctic Ocean from the Kola Peninsula to Cape Dezhnev in the Chukotka region he overcame cycling and hunting skis. For half a year without any support, he drove alone on the Arctic ice and the coast forty thousand kilometers.
Wim Hof
Wim Hof, also known as "ice man", literally every day, check yourself for strength cold. Spend a few hours in the cold, to climb Mont Blanc in shorts, swim under the ice of a frozen lake for him commonplace. 20 of these achievements Wim Hof hit the Guinness Book of Records. The Dutchman is convinced that the incredible achievements and records is a natural result of its long-term work, not sverhsposobnostey.
Naomi Uemura
For 29 years in a Japanese traveler captured five of the seven highest points of the different continents. In 1972, 9 months, he moved to Greenland, where he lived with the Eskimos, and studied dog sledding. Applying the lessons learned while traveling through Canada and Alaska, Naomi Uemura started to prepare for a single trip to the North Pole. He moves the sled dogs, and all the necessary equipment and products it periodically delivered by plane. Destination Naomi Uemura reached after 55 days puti.
Otto Schmidt
Soviet mathematician and geographer undertook to play the role of "Mythbusters" and check whether navigating the Northern Sea route to the usual heavy cargo ship, but not on a special board. The ship, which was accomplished expedition was crushed by ice, and 104 crew members remained to winter on the ice. The rescue operation was able to spend only a month. For a week all the people were evacuated from ldiny.
Ramon Navarro
Chilean surfer Ramon Navarro decided poserfit where there has never set foot surfer. To conquer the waves Ramon went to Antarctica. Harsh climatic conditions an athlete more than compensated for the lack of crowd surfers in the water regardless of time sutok.
Naked man may be in the cold at minus 30-35 ° C for half an hour, a maximum of one hour. Prolonged exposure to cold causes the internal mechanisms that are not able to compensate for heat losses, whereby the body temperature begins to fall. Resistance to cold can be improved if regularly hardening of the body, as is done, for example, "walrus". Through "training" cooling of the body is not afraid of the cold and ice water. But their resistance to cold - is not the limit of human capabilities.
Roald Amundsen
Norwegian polar explorer Roald Amundsen almost his entire life engaged in research of the North. On the way to the grand opening of the traveler had to overcome a lot of incredible difficulty. One of the most difficult test awaited polar explorer during his first expedition. The vessel in which the team moved to the South magnetic pole, was stopped by ice. The crew waited for unplanned hibernation for perezhidaniya that on board was not in sufficient quantity or polar clothes, no supply of food. To survive in the harsh conditions, we had to alter equipment in blankets and learn to hunt seals. After 13 months, the ship finally came out from the area of the ice and the researcher, together with other survivors explorers returned domoy.
Andrzej Zawada
Prior to 1979, all climbers tried to reach the summit of the world only in premonsoon or poslemussonny seasons. Change the number of seasons, and add another winter and first tried the Polish expedition led by Andrzej Zawada. After lengthy negotiations with the Ministry of Tourism of Nepal climbers have received permission to climb Mount Everest in the winter season. Winter permit was strictly limited period from December 1, 1979 to February 28, 1980, and not one day more. Despite the tight deadlines, the climbers managed to keep within the allotted time and, after passing through the South Col, climb to the top Everesta.
Lewis Gordon Pugh
British athlete Lewis Gordon Pugh, nicknamed "Polar Bear" prefer swimming in the warm sea water swim in the glacial lakes and the Arctic Ocean. The icy water he plunges not in a special wetsuit and conventional swimming trunks and swimming cap. Feature your body is stored in water at sub-zero temperatures warm the muscles and coordination of movements Briton uses to draw attention to the rapid melting of the ice cover of the Earth and change issues klimata.
Gleb Travin
In 1928, the Soviet traveler went on a bicycle on a long journey along the borders of the USSR, including the Arctic coast. The borders along the Arctic Ocean from the Kola Peninsula to Cape Dezhnev in the Chukotka region he overcame cycling and hunting skis. For half a year without any support, he drove alone on the Arctic ice and the coast forty thousand kilometers.
Wim Hof
Wim Hof, also known as "ice man", literally every day, check yourself for strength cold. Spend a few hours in the cold, to climb Mont Blanc in shorts, swim under the ice of a frozen lake for him commonplace. 20 of these achievements Wim Hof hit the Guinness Book of Records. The Dutchman is convinced that the incredible achievements and records is a natural result of its long-term work, not sverhsposobnostey.
Naomi Uemura
For 29 years in a Japanese traveler captured five of the seven highest points of the different continents. In 1972, 9 months, he moved to Greenland, where he lived with the Eskimos, and studied dog sledding. Applying the lessons learned while traveling through Canada and Alaska, Naomi Uemura started to prepare for a single trip to the North Pole. He moves the sled dogs, and all the necessary equipment and products it periodically delivered by plane. Destination Naomi Uemura reached after 55 days puti.
Otto Schmidt
Soviet mathematician and geographer undertook to play the role of "Mythbusters" and check whether navigating the Northern Sea route to the usual heavy cargo ship, but not on a special board. The ship, which was accomplished expedition was crushed by ice, and 104 crew members remained to winter on the ice. The rescue operation was able to spend only a month. For a week all the people were evacuated from ldiny.
Ramon Navarro
Chilean surfer Ramon Navarro decided poserfit where there has never set foot surfer. To conquer the waves Ramon went to Antarctica. Harsh climatic conditions an athlete more than compensated for the lack of crowd surfers in the water regardless of time sutok.
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