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Tamra Lunger and Simone Moro are no strangers to climbing tall, impossibly cold peaks. But this past winter they traveled to Sibera to take on a mountain named Pik Pobeda, which holds the distinction of being the coldest peak on the planet. To put things in perspective, temperatures on the mountain reached -71.3�C (-96.3�F), turning it into one frigid excursions to say the least. In this video, we get an inside look at what it was like to climb in that environment, in a place that is about as remote and rugged as it gets on our planet.

The Antarctic ski season is still more than a week away from officially getting started and already we're starting to get some strange stories from the frozen continent. According to reports , a Russian researcher by the name of Sergey Savitsky has been charged with attempted murder after he stabbed a coworker at the Bellingshausen Station, a scientific research facility located on King George Island, which is part of the Shetland Islands that fall along the Antarctic Peninsula. It seems that Savitsky suffered a mental breakdown over the course of the very long, and isolating, winter that is now coming to an end in the Antarctic. This led to the stabbing, which allegedly took place back on October 9. Since then, the Russian researcher has been placed under house arrest and will remain so until December 8, which is probably the date that he is scheduled to rotate out of Bellingshausen and head home to Russia. By then, the austral spring/summer should be in effect, allowing personnel...