"I was wearing thin trousers when I first stepped outside into – 47 °C (-52°F). I remember feeling like the cold was physically gripping my legs, the other surprise was that occasionally my saliva would freeze into needles that would prick my lips", the photographer told to weather.com.

The photographer recalls that the hardest thing was not the cold itself, but that his camera's focus and zoom rings would occasionally freeze in place.

Update: Not all the photographs above were captured in the village of Oymyakon. Some of them were shot in Yakutsk.

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