Descending into the World’s Deepest Shaft in the Permafrost Zone

The deepest shaft built on permafrost in Yakutsk, Siberia, more than 150 years ago, was drilled down and reopened for researchers and tourists, who wish to go down through never-melting, frozen soil layers as deep...

Max Chernitsov

Summer Ice ManSpring/Summer 2009Moscow, 23.10.2008 

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