How north nomads go to the toilet & take a shower when -58°F, -50°C. Not like we do!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 ธ.ค. 2022
- Many many people asked about this particular part of reeindeer herders life. People from tundra are very shy when it comes to talk about this. But still it is obvious they have to go to the toilet and wash themselves...
But how do they do it when there is no WC or simply a shower in tundra!
Let's see! - บันเทิง
As a woman, I can't imagine menstruating and not showering for the entire winter. That sounds terrible to me.
Yes, I do wonder how they manage. Even with modern menstrual products, it can be quite a mess.
I'm not a woman, but that's what I thought of immediately too... In any culture where showering/bathing is not a regular aspect of life, it must be a grueling life for the women.
Best guess would be to use some of the snow when you go
Mother nature knows best and its extra calories for the husbands
They mensturate after winter
There is an old saying how a toilet looks in tundra. It is two sticks. One to support yourself when crouching and the other to chase away wolfs. In this case raindeers.
What happens if whilst supporting your bottom with one stick ...bottom moves ? Humm ? Where does it end up ?
@@keithwigley1256lol no....the first stick is planted firmly in the ground vertically. You grab it with your left hand while you're crouching over a hole in the ground and in the right hand got the stick to defend yourself.
As an avid hiker, camper , outdoorsman I started watching YT videos on the nomads from Mongolia and now I watch these videos. These people and children are so amazing and truly survivors of the fittest for sure. Thank you for sharing their incredible lives with our 🌎 .
The most adaptable survive, not necessarily the fittest.
@ The No Neck People Represent….
fittest: situations in which only the strongest people or things continue to live or be successful , while the others die or fail.
*outdoorsman* (just one of you, I presume) 😉☺️🤗 PS! These people live very similar lives to the Sami people here in Norway! 🤗
I also spent a year with the Mongolian nomads. Adjusted to their culture so well that I suffered severe reverse culture shock re-entering the US. Most wonderful people ever.
@@haroldsmith5761 I am an indoor man myself. And this video convinced me to watch more video's indoors.
I'm over here debating a heated toilet seat cause my bathroom gets cold in the winter. Nevermind.
😂😉
I live in Germany in a house build in 1912. Our toilet is in an unheated room with only a one glass window.
If its freezing outside, we have real icicles above the toilet.🥶
But you get used to it.
Dam you really have suffered ?
@@keithwigley1256 while different and difficult, also voluntary. Personally, I don't consider voluntary as suffering, lol. I say voluntary because there is not much easier than sticking a space heater n2 a bathroom, even just with an extension cord
@@chipblanc6037 thanks for the explanation...I can understand your suffering now compared to theirs...whatever...if you bottom feels as though its being frozen to the toilet seat ...where ever you might live ...it still hurts....and every body hurts sometime ...R E M ...try few homemade candles. Made cheaper than retail shops ..slow burning..make sure stable and safe..in small space ..Will heat room if all draughts blocked off ..all the best now..
Having camped and hunted and fished in severe cold weather I have the deepest respect and admiration for these people. All I can say is this not easy and it can be exhausting by the time you lay down to sleep at night you are completely spent from work,chores,hunting,cooking and trying to stay warm. Equipment can fail in severe cold, components break or snap in your hands etc etc, unless you have been there and done it it is very hard to explain to people unfamiliar with extreme cold. Acclimating to the cold takes time, 20F can feel like a heat wave after -30F. What you wear that day can mean the difference between comfort and distress. Falling into a frozen lake is another experience you may wish to avoid, with no one around you may die in 15-20minutes unless you save yourself. You can’t do stupid stuff and live.
When people complain about global warming, I remind them that the cold kills far more people than the heat.
You describe is how far away from nature we have gone. We do stupid stuff all the time and live. Nature has ways of evening the score 🌅🌞
by the time you LIE down, not 'lay' down.
@@byronlippe even if you think you are prepared and ready, you are not, example a freak blizzard comes up while you are out hunting and no way back to your lodge, there is a good chance you die of exposure. Another example there are multiple dead bodies on top of Mt Everest all of them athletes in their own right they died due to hypothermia, lack of oxygen, freak storm, etc etc but dead is dead no matter how smart you think you are, how prepared you are etc. until you experience coming really close to dying you won’t believe it possible because that is the human brain rationalization of reality and statistics of potential survival
Yes...and what about important medical help? How do they get it..if at all?
My grandpa grew up in a farm laborer family in the UK - he told me that when winter came they rubbed grease on their bodies & wore long johns until spring. This was between the 1870s- 1890s.
I had a Scottish friend who did this as a boy back in the 1940’s - 60’s.
I've been winter hiking in Finnish Lapland countless if times. I have always had a principle that I wash myself before making a camp. I do it in smallish streams or if I can't find any, in snow. Streams typically stay melted where high current spots get covered with snow.
Washing myself in a snow is not a problem, even in -30C, unless there are heavy winds. Some may think it makes me cold for entire evening but it's totally opposite. When you have skid in deep snow with heavy backpack for entire day, your body is used for excess heat. Clothes are also a bit damp from sweat and don't insulate well. Normally you'll get cold after you stop moving, no matter how much clothes you put on. After little wash in a cold, I put on dry set of wool and fleece and soon warm heat spread all over the body. It really tell the body it's time to start making the heat.
While cold water don't wash as well as hot, it'll do it surprisingly well, if being done right. Body heats small amount of water really easily, so it's better start by putting it on the most critical areas first using hand and rub the area as the water warms up.
I had asked myself the questions about how they toilet and bathe. I speculated they had a separate tent. Boy, was I wrong!
In Military time we washed us outside with snow during the Winter Biwak up to - 30C.
We just wear our boots and swimsuit.
2 man helped each other to treat the back with snow.
Then was wrestling the entire Platoon in the snow.
This bringing the blood circulation up.
I made this 50 years ago during my military service.
Every year 10 days Winter Biwak.
Alaf Sig Runa from Germany
God Jul
Wow!! Thank you for sharing your experience!
We call it biwak in Poland too.
@@jacekbojanowicz3828 My WW2 veteran father called it bivouac.
it's now called world time , not military time Mr Homo
I just watched this out of curiosity, never believing it would be interesting. I was wrong. This is probably what I'll be thinking of when I have to get up in the middle of the night to do my business! 😅
I'm just thankful to have a roof over my head and to be where I am. Y'all can keep that tundra.
the puppy husky with the boy was very cute!
Incredible how they can survive such harsh weather and climate! They are truly brave and remarkable people!!!
Not more than me ..I once ate an Ice lolly under the duvet.? Smoke that dude..
@@keithwigley1256 Unlikely story!!!
@@mr.stranger4951 ask my cat Elvis ...
@@keithwigley1256 Ask your own cat! Because I didn’t ask any questions and I don’t have any questions! Learn how to read!!!
@@mr.stranger4951 humm ..you need to get some kind of better life going on , sense of humour ..women will find you more attractive then ...get well soon strange boy ..
Thank you for answering the questions that many viewers asked about elimination in this culture and weather!
Unimaginable life Oh my God. Watching from India, I can't even imagine how those people survive. In India, when temperatures go down below 5 deg C, or go up from 35 deg C to 45 deg C, we complain. But these resilient people are so peaceful. Much respect.
Incredible video! Would love to be as physically/mentally tough as these people. Modern day conveniences are useful but can make people weak. Btw please don’t take Our Lord’s Name in vain. Peace!
@@RapidCycling07 check out Derek Prince
Our no work Full pay - Hartal based parties should know how people struggle to live. Our aim is No work and Full Pay.
Much respect for their peaceful Life
@RapidCycling07 your lord? Indians are mostly hindu and their gods existed long before the young carpenter from Nazareth was nailed to the cross.
I am laughing so hard at the Russian journalist lady talking about how she was mobbed by reindeer while pissing so the deer could eat her piss! I can't imagine fighting off my reindeer friends with a stick so they don't eat my piss while I am freezing to death just wanting to empty my bladder!!! I have covid very bad despite my vaccines. This cheered me up and reminded me at least I am in a warm bed. What a tough amazing people! Thank you for the video. I was curious about this.
Excuse me…..you really don’t have to be so graphic and crude….🤷♂️not to mention the science behind the deer eating urine…they instinctively sense nutrients in the urine as most animals do…..
@@skyeblu1722 if you have no sense of humor go get one. Half my family just died and I am hanging on by a thread. If a little humor offends you enough you need to lecture me- stay out of my life. I think it’s funny. If deer urine studies are so important to you you need to judge me shame on you.
@@skyeblu1722 people like you are the reason I have no desire to be near humans. So judgmental. Im going back to my parrots and my little dogs. All I have left in life.
@@justinholoviak5357 Get well soon and please make similar comments, it was funny to me..
Reindeer hides are incredibly warm. You have to try them to understand. Almost like they beam warmth.
Look at we take for granted having indoor plumbing. Wow. This is amazing to me. You did an excellent job with this film. It was a short documentary.
Well... I was not expecting THAT. I have to say I'm humbled, never again will I complain about the hot water pressure dropping in my combi boiler again! 😱
No LGBT +Q Nonsense!
Spent 23 yrs in the army and winter training was always a challenge. Some guys would actually try to hold it ( poop) as they didn’t want to go outside the tent in -30 cold. Unfortunately that usually ended up in constipation which meant they really had to stay outside to do their business.
One thing about Army chow, whether mess hall or MRE’s, IT’S COMING OUT EVENTUALLY. LOL. You’ll even get over that having to shit in front of your buddies 😅.
I'm a terrible person. I laughed so hard after reading this 😳😂
@@HeartbrokenBastard imagine how much i laughed, that i hate army and pretended to be crazy so as to skip it.
@@constantinosschinas4503 It's always terrible to do something against one's will and convictions. I would have done the same to escape the burden 🥺
Are you saying they use to hold the poop in their hands ? What ? All night ?
I finally found out the future.
Keep going
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This are relentless people.
All the respect!!!
Having experienced frostbitten fingers when I was six years old, this is not a life I could ever live! Frostbite is so terribly painful, especially when the circulation starts coming back into the frozen areas, that I simply don't want to imagine getting more....delicate....parts of the body frozen!
I think that Nenets children (in this video you see Nenets people) usually do toilet things into pots inside chum, when outside is freezing cold or storm. Children aren't treated exactly like adults.
But do you have Fingers?
I hope you fully recovered.. 🤦🏽♂️
When I was a kid we had an outdoor Toilet only, no bathroom,we were given a bath once a week in a big tin bath, cleanest( usually the youngest) first. What they are going through makes our old bath time and outdoor loo look luxurious.
So you guys used the same water for a bath?
@@Mama-vd1lk Yes we used the same water,it was topped up with a saucepan full of hot water when needed. 🤔
I’m Northwest Ontario , Canada you have to watch out for moose on the highway in winter time . They are licking up the road salt at night . You are lucky if they are facing you so you can see their eyes reflection and manage to stop. Lots of accidents happen with unlucky motorists who don’t see them at night
We’ve got normal deer in the United States. Bastards jump out of the woods right in front of your car. Everyone I know, knows someone who hit one. I hit one, my mother hit one. I swear it’s like they lay In wait and are like “hey Joe, here comes another one…..Joe, I dare you to jump”. I had deer meat on the bottom of my car, I went inside and came out and had to chase cats away from my tires.
We have deer up here in Michigan that love to hang around on the roads. Especially just before the sun comes up. It's very common to have an encounter with one and most people I know have had an encounter. I make it a personal point not to go out unless it's completely light outside.
We loved this! Fascinating! We can all learn from this!
A truly remarkable people! Thank you for sharing this.
Hello, how are you Deborah?
The ability of moving home every 2 days in an extremely freezing environment is one of the most amazing abilities God blessed these people with, truly amazing.
If I found out that some idiot deity had consigned me to such an awful lifestyle I would be angry at it. No wonder they make those silly wibbly-wobbly singing noises.
I guess you are an atheist & also you don't hear them complain about their way of life
which god?
@@waynethomas3638 so you think you just dropped from the sky?.
@@LionHeart_. this answer is not a god i recognise or have ever heard of!
I find this lifestyle so beautiful & fascinating, try to watch every video I find on it! The landscape is incredible & I have utmost admiration for the people living in harmony with it. I like that the pee is of great salt value to the reindeer too, when humans can bring improvements to the lives of animals & live symbiotically with them as much as possible. Then I imagine living where EVERY small thing you do is of utmost importance to your survival & that of your family, relations & animals... a really meaningful existence.
I lived on a Glacier for 6 weeks working on a movie.
The crew didn't have heat in our tents.
It was miserably 🥶 cold. However, the Mess Hall was warm.
This video however shines a light on a whole new life in the cold.
If you are wondering we used unheated outhouses.
The building of the camp itself sounds it would make a cool doccumentary. Must have been a monumental logistical task to get all of that equipment and people on top of a glacier.
Did you at least have styrofoam toilet seats? 🥶
@@whatsup5791 I’d rather shit in my hands
How was it that your Bum didn't Stick to the seat??? ❄🌬🥶
Kids in North America should be sent out to spend a few weeks to live with these guys. It would certainly make them appreciate what they have.
Not sure about these people, but Mongolians always have yak butter with their tea. The butter provides additional calories to keep their metabolism high enough to generate heat to keep warm.
You know they have got to be healthy.
Clean water and air and food.
So peaceful
No electronics or electricity at All.
I would welcome a clean life like this.
Clean mind, clean heart, clean body etc.....
Use domestos ..to clean your body..works everytime..
No toilet paper how do they wipe the crap in Mongolia outhouse
So glad we found your channel, my hubbie and I are starting to homestead in northern Michigan and looking at how people like this do things helps
Ev e n though they live in incredibly difficult conditions there is something so pure, honest and innocent about them. They use every minute of their lives just working to survive. God bless.
Hi ! Thank you for all the beautiful videos! Could you please leave the subtitles A LITTLE LONGER so that we have enough time to read them? This is for all your videos, not just this one. Thank you!
Hi! Thank you for letting me know that! I will do it
You can always pause it.
Pause it of slow down your video.
Slow down the video.
Why can't you just pause the video while you read??
Thanks for sharing, I have so much respect for these people. As someone who worked 2 days in a row, 10hr day In Innamincka central Australia on record breaking days of 48.6 c (no shade) proves the versatility of humans to survive. For me I'll take the heat over that but thanks again
Oof! I'll take the cold. But I'm of Nordic and Slavic stock, so maybe it's in my genes. 🤷🏼♀️
Jesus that puppy had a strong bite 😄
“Excuse me, where’s the bathroom?”
“Do you see that stick over there? There’s your bathroom.”
It's possibly impolite I always wondered about the smell inside these tents and clothing.
one would get accustomed to the smell...
It's cold though. Bacteria smells in the heat, not in the cold really. But how do they have sex if they don't take a bath in the whole year? What are there methods, especially when they get their menstrual cycle periods?
@@solangelalebron1348 Don't forget some 300 years back thre was only one toilet in the whole castle Versailles and people weren' t bathing very much even though the climate wasn't so harsh in Europe!
They had their periods and sex too!
Body changes to the environment you are in !! It’s like when women don’t wash their hair!! At first it’s very oily but as time goes by it’s less and less oily !! Weird right !! 🤷🏻♀️
I felt honored to be able to observe how these hardy souls lived. I suppose it is product of my big city lifestyle that I feel this way; but it all seems so pristine. the freeborn children of Nature. what an apt way to describe them.
What a beautiful and tough people! Not many of us could survive, let alone enjoy life in such a harsh environment!
If you were born there and this was the only life you knew since you first opened your eyes, trust me, you would invariably adapt and everything about that life would seem as normal and natural to you as does your current environment and way of life.
Seniors, we have to go more often; how will we survive?
i would not have lived for long if i had been born there. To sickly and half blind
@@Temptation666 natural selection
@@donuts3476 tell me something i don't know. Thanks
what an amazing group of hard-working beautiful people
Big respect to this people for keeping their culture alive.
I truly truly hope that they can keep their culture alive, now when cell phones are creeping into their lives..sadly its going to be their biggest challenge ever.. :(
It was hearwarming tosee that the dogs and puppies are inside the tent with their people. That they are not left outside, as seems to be the usual case with "snowdogs". It was also good to see how the puppies and people are enjoying each others comapny.
I could never live in a constant snowstorm like that. And move in the midst of it. Via a river. God, these people are resilient. How do the dogs move with them if they go inside the water? Swim as well? or do they come on the baggage sledges or what? It is interesting.
While I realize that this is a delicate subject I am thankful that you made a video about it. I mentioned this subject a few videos back and here you have answered me and others. Thank you so much! Blessings to you all.
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What amazingly strong and resourceful people!
Next time my shower feels a bit cold I'll remember that somewhere in the tundra there's a dude trying to take a dump, fighting a pee-addicted deer with a stick.
A Yurt is a Mongolian style tent with walls and a slanted roof, which are different from the straight Tipi style tents. Here in Norway we call the these Tipi style tents for _Lavvo._ It's a Sami (Finno Ugric) word. The West Siberain Nenets tribe call them _Chum,_ however. And East Siberians call them _Yaranga._
Some of them natives in Russia are Finno-Ugric
thank you
Yarangas are yurt-like buildings, but more simply built, they aren't straight like "chums". By the way, word "chum" comes from Russian language. The native peoples themselves call those buildings differently than Russians, and names in each language differ.
Yurt is a Turkic word but it is not a tent and yes, the ones in this video are not yurt they are actually tents like more temporary style. . Yurt actually means "my homeland" or "my motherland" in Turkic Language..Turkic people originate in Siberia Mongolia Russia China Turkey native america so on
And in Sweden we call them KÅTA...
Which also means something else 😂
This is reminding me of fascinating books about families around the world by Faith D'Aluisio and Peter Mensel. In one they photographed them with a years worth of food outside in a pile. In another, with all the family's possessions. In a third they interviewed women around the world about their lives. The majority of families did NOT have running water. Many washed their clothes in water they hauled by hand, rivers, or drainage ditches. Some had only 1 or 2 pair of clothes which they washed by hand at night, hung to dry then put on the next day.
From winter camping I can say, you don't actually want to swim or shower when it's that cold! And if you are living out in fresh air, eating a natural diet, you don't actually notice. Some cultures are lucky to have the fuel for saunas, or sweat lodges.
Even in the US not long ago baths or showers weren't that common. I remember talking to a middle aged man 40 years ago. He'd grown up in a house with one room where the fireplace was, and food was cooked. The kids all slept overhead in the unheated loft on hay bales.They had no electric lights. They had one wash weekly,... with water heated and poured on a kid sitting in a wash basin. The same water was reused for all the kids one by one, oldest first and youngest last, with probably a little new wash water poured over each.
I also wondered how they poo and what the women do during their monthly time. I have those questions because I rely on indoor plumbing. The thought of giving birth out there if they cannot get to a hospital is scary too. I know they have transportation because of the fresh produce I see in the videos, but it's hard for city people to imagine.
Never felt like that before, but after watching the video I really love my indoor plumbing.
Wow, thanks. I have wondered about this every day for my entire life.
Thank you for the information. I NEVER knew any of this, and I watch A LOT of these videos ( I don't know why).🤷🏻♀️
Another very interesting and informative docu.
I lived in an older house that wasn't insulted, it was built from cinder block with one little wall heater (no heat at all in the bathroom). That house got so cold during one really harsh winter, and I was really only taking cat baths. I had to sleep with my beanie on. But since it was so cold, I didn't really sweat.
Thank you for these amazing video !!!!! Marvelous people !!! So much have to teach us !
Incredible Documentary. Huge Gratitude & Major Respect for these Peoples
Beautiful people. They look happy and contented to me.
Oh I definitely wouldn’t make it. Give these people credit , they are true survivors in the elements.
After watching them live thru their daily lives without the necessities that we have makes me more grateful to the Lord.
thank you!!!!! educational.....WOW, there are still "things" on Earth I don't know anything about, so again, thank you for widening my horizons!!! 💗💗💗💗
Makes sense! Thanks for showing us!
And we, my mother was scary little lizards in our newspaper in our outback toilet. Going to toilet where you 😊👋 are is a big adventure.
What an interesting video. Enjoyed watching it very much. Thank you for posting it.
Beautiful people. It’s interesting and fascinating to see how they live. Thank you for sharing lives with us.
I thought I was tough because my bidet runs off of tap water and we get -30 temps in the winter. Now I recognize I’m living in luxury.
МОЛОДЦЫ! С Новым Годом! Желаю Счастья!
Truly a very pertinent question.....wondering for a long time to know.....
Fascinating. Thank you so much for posting.
very few of us southern folks would survive in that environment
Esto me ayuda a comprender lo q es vivir sin vanidad y simplesa.A valorar lo q tengo .un baño adentro de mi casa ,Estufa, electricidad. Etc.Dios Los bendiga. 👋🥰
Ein wunderschöner Film, hart leben sie, aber von der auch so bösen Wett, soweit entfernt. Sie sind mit Sicherheit glücklicher wie wir, mit all unserem SCHEISS! WÜNSCHE IHNEN DAS ES SO BLEIBT! ❤❤❤
It’s good experiences shared, I also had that below freeze construction in Washington State,
my boss was unhappy I spent more than 20 minutes in the toilet.
God bless you all, 🙏❤
Camping on the frozen north you just have a chamber pot and do everything inside tent. In the morning you empty it out and wash it
Nenets children do things inside chums on chamber pots. I guess video maker forgot to mention it.
These reindeer herders are real people. They are tough. I feel real wimpy after watching this video.
Think I am going to play a game on my iPhone now. Then maybe take a nap.
Wonderful essay. Thank you! Very well done!
When a baby is born it is washed immediately with water and ice. This is how to become almost immortal. My respect!
Thank you for sharing! Never heard of reindeer & human urine thing afore, was taken aback a tad I'll admit. Water well is down in the house, we haul in to flush toilets and wash dishes and drinking water. It's a chore. Less so than these strong strong people for sure. That biting cold is painful and seems like a living solid thing to contend with. The long coats/parkas are the bomb, as, probably made from the caribou hide: the warmest thing you'll ever wear. ~Alaskan eskimo
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This is unique ..... because around all snow and very cool, from Indonesa I am watching now. I am support your channel.
Amazing documentary! Thank you!
"Kids and adults are pretty hardened to cold water."
Yeah. That's because they've been batheing in ice water since they were babies.
We should all learn a lesson from them. How to survive in this brutal winter. We just have a blizzard and many froze to death. Them this is their daily lives.
People freeze to death in our society because they are not prepared and take unnecessary chances. Like when there is a hurricane, they get ample warning, but don’t listen and then tragedy strikes.
We should all learn a lesson from them: indoor life is best in this winters. My daily life looks much better.
Wow, I seriously can't even imagine. Bless these beautiful people. I remember being obsessed with yurts almost a decade ago.
They are all smart wonderful sweet amazing adorable cute darling pretty lovely beautiful gorgeous animals.
🖐😳great video of resilience in such harsh conditions. So glad I’m not them!!
So incredible people.!
Thank you very much for this "unique" and fabulous video.
life is full of difficulties, but they have adapted and live very well, energetic people, wish all the best to come ❤❤
4:50 In the early 60s I watched a program describing the life of an eskimo family. A baby was born while the researcher was there and he filmed the baby playing in the igloo with no clothes on. When asked the parents replied that the child would not need clothing during the first 6 months of his life. The mother didn't begin to create clothing for him till after he was born. having 6 months to do it. She made it much to large for the baby.
Wow! It is so interesting! Thank you!
They still live the way all tribes American native people in usa us live and move freely much they do now it sad to see away of life being for gotting it make heart happy to see some people still allowed to be them selfs
Acquired knowledge from previous generations keeps the nomadic people alive today.
That was pretty incredible.
So interesting what strong people they are ❤
Vídeo muito lindo, parabéns desejo sucesso e um feliz Natal 🌲🌲☃️ abraços daqui do Brasil 🇧🇷🇧🇷
Wow! I guess 35°, wind and rain here in Lake Arrowhead, CA, pales in comparison!!
Reindeer and human symbiosis was unknown to me. I am glad I learned about it.
Amazing...I can’t imagine how they make it!
Incredible Hard Life basically living outside (in a Yurt) in -50 Temperatures!! The Footage with Extremely Strong Blizzard and Winds was Amazing!!
This was absolutely fascinating
Fascinating!!