| The Earth's Third Pole - the Pole of Coldness

There is a spot on the globe which is called the third pole of the Earth, or Pole of Coldness. This is Tomtor, a township in Yakutia. In 1926 a temperature of 71�C below zero was registered there.

Informbank Agency offers a chance not only to try what the true cosmic cold is but to see with your own eyes the way people live in such environment. By the way, a natural phenomenon can be observed there: the water in some local rivers does not freeze even at 50-degrees of frost.

An expedition to the Pole of Coldness lasts 10 days, within a period from November 25 to March 1. Women are not recommended to take part in it. The package includes flights, overland transit along the driveway built in Stalin epoch by GULAG prisoners. Visiting Tomtor township draws tourists' steady interest, as well as meteorological monitoring, subglacial fishing, folk concert. The culmination of the program is ceremonial handing over a Certificate of visiting the Pole of Coldness.

Annually in March "The Pole of Coldness" tourism festival is held in Tomtor. In its program are reindeer breeders' holiday, icy sculpture contest, athletic competitions, night firework.

Traveling to the Pole of Coldness is one of the most exclusive tours. There are few people in the world who can declare with fair that they have been at the coldest point of the planet. Take a chance to be one of them!