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by matusfaro 991 days ago
Living in Ulaanbaatar Mongolia for some time I experienced temperatures of -20 -30 -40 Celsius. Every ten degrees lower I thought it was going to be the same, but was I wrong.

My most notable discovery was when I wanted to jump start my car, because the battery died due to the cold. I was about to bring out my jumper cables when my local friend told me to bring the cables inside first.

I didn't understand why and naively ignored what he said only for the rubber jumper cables to literally crumble in my hand, breaking as I tried to straighten them.

Mongolians are so resilient and have so much knowledge on how to survive in extreme weathers with a simple yurt and a livestock of 100 sheep goats and horses.