After a recent cold snap in Siberia, global interest has surged in the Russian village of Oymyakon, the coldest inhabited place on Earth. Photographer Amos Chapple ​has revisited the images he took on a journey to the village in 2012. Many are published here for the first time.
Siberia's 'Pole Of Cold'
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Yakutsk, with a population of around 270,000, holds its own title: that of the coldest city on Earth.
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The village of Oymyakon, with its heating plant chugging coal smoke into the freezing air. It was dubbed "The Pole Of Cold" after recording a temperature of minus 71.2 degrees Celsius in 1933. The record freeze was just a few degrees shy of the minus 78.5 C temperature of dry ice.
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The view from a Soviet-era van during the two-day drive from Yakutsk, the regional capital, to Oymyakon.
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In January 2018, temperatures in the city dropped below minus 50 degrees Celsius.