This mini documentary about the coldest town on Earth is stunning

Kiun B’s YouTube videos are mini documentaries about her life and the lives of the 800 individuals who stay in her hometown of Yakutia, Siberia, aka the coldest city on Earth. The creator, who narrates the movies, says she and her group are native to the area. The enchanting mini docs showcase their customs, tradition, and day-to-day life — which seems to be fairly totally different when it’s 95 levels Fahrenheit beneath zero exterior.

This installment follows a household via their day, together with waking up earlier than the solar to feed the furnace hearth and soften ice for ingesting water. They don layers and layers of insulated clothes simply to stroll quick distances exterior — or lengthy distances, within the case of the schoolkids who bundle up every day to commute to class. The tales are humbling, particularly as you sit in your cozy house and watch the Yakutians do such onerous, backbreaking work simply to maintain their properties working via the winter. (Don’t fear, it will get heat in the summertime — and there’s a video about that, too!)

This documentary has that simple, informative Nat Geo vibe that makes it an unchallenging watch with household over the vacations, for example. However the creator and narrator being from Yakutia herself provides it a extra grounded tone and, in fact, higher perception about life within the city.

Whereas it’s by no means a good suggestion to chalk a whole tradition as much as one YouTube channel, I didn’t know something about Yakutia or the modern lives of the Indigenous individuals of Siberia earlier than watching these movies, and so they uncovered me to one thing I’d’ve by no means discovered about in any other case. And who hasn’t questioned how the individuals who stay within the harsh local weather of Siberia make all of it work? To have that query answered — and to find out how these individuals thrive in a chilly I can’t even conceive of — is a good way to spend 20 minutes.