Adventure Fernweh: In an East German Truck to Oymyakon

Oymyakon - the coldest inhabited place on Earth. Record -67.8 degrees Celsius. In January, Ronald Prokein sets out with his travel companion Andy Winter to the remote East Siberian village on the Kolyma Highway, the coldest road on the planet.

On the route, their truck risks sliding off a cliff. A tire has come loose from its rim. Two German Shepherds accompany the men on their three-month journey, during which they cover approximately 11,000 kilometres in a W50 truck - a former East German military vehicle. The engine of the old Soviet truck runs almost day and night, with air temperatures dropping to nearly -46 degrees. The cab's heating fails for weeks, and inside it is nearly as cold as outside.

The men from Rostock know: without movement, they will freeze. Every hour they climb out of the vehicle and run to warm up. They learn to thaw thickened engine oil with fire beneath the truck and replace burst cooling hoses, they drive with barely any brakes through Siberian mountains and feel the breath of the brutal history of Stalin's Gulag.

Prokein and Winter also experience corruption and violence, are threatened by police with rifles, and get into a fight in Yakutsk. Yet the warmth of the Russian people, the almost endless expanse and beauty of the snowy landscape warm the hearts of the Hanseatic men...

Ronald Prokein recounts his experiences as a trucker on one of the world's most dangerous routes in a gripping photo-show presentation.