The winter of 1946 was exceptionally harsh; the snow drifts were so deep the country's meagre coal supplies struggled to reach power stations, causing many to close down.
Traveling across a harsh, cold, snow-covered terrain filled with wild packs of dogs, Willo heads into the city, a bleak realm of starvation and violence.
"We need a shelter, food rations and bedding". Despite an enormous aid effort over the three months since the Oct. 8 earthquake, rescue workers are still finding new villages in need of the most basic assistance to hope to survive the harsh winter snows.
With the area caught in harsh winter snows and isolated by topography and the effects of the protracted Afghan civil war, relief teams by yesterday had not reached places where many were believed buried in landslides and the rubble of collapsed homes.
Here, harsh realities include snow that won't yield to sculpting and temperatures that regularly plummet to minus 25C.
Where are the Revenant-style bear attacks and – apart from that brief sprinkling of snow – harsh weather conditions?
Harsh cold, heavy snow and freezing rain afflicted not only China's eastern and central regions, but also its south, which is usually spared winter's worst.
Later in the week we had snow, harsh wind, and some areas were hard packed.
"My shooting conditions are rather harsh (cold, rain, snow, mud, you name it) and I am quite demanding, that's why I prefer to work with people I know from before—I probably wouldn't feel comfortable torturing complete strangers".
The geographic location of Gilgit-Baltistan, and the topographical nature makes it prone to harsh climate like snow storms, wind storms, droughts, floods, landslides and soil erosion [ 3].
