A nun guiding an elderly woman to a mountain top during an organised excursion for old or social weak people to the city of Yeosu.

First portfolio from our work in South Korea.

Jiri Dienstbier – former dissident and Czechoslovakia’s first foreign minister at the Joint Security Area (JSA). The Joint Security Area in Panmunjom is the only portion of the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) where South and North Korean forces stand face-to-face.

My journey to the coldest populated area on Earth started in January. I left South Korea by boat to Vladivostok and then further by plane to the city of Yakutsk. There I had been already in the winter two years ago and my friend, well known blogger Bolot Bochkarev www.askyakutia.com, mobilised shortly before his friends and people he knew to realise a trip to the “Pole of Cold”.  He really managed to find enough people to fill one UAZ (Russian off-road vehicle) and finally joined us in the last possible minute…the rest is already history. We left Yakutsk to the “Pole of Cold” during an early Sunday morning and I had no idea what was going to happen during the next 5 days…

Below you will find four chapters of the Journey to the “Pole of Cold” in Yakutia/Russia.