Frag Out! Magazine
Issue link: https://fragout.uberflip.com/i/1220268
The humanity has needed fire since centuries. Fire is the source of energy, keeping one warm and allowing one to prepare food. As the years went by, people started to master the fire better. Torches emerged, allowing one to carry the fire around. Different furnace designs were created, that did not require human attention – the wood was falling down by itself, being automatically supplied to keep the flame burning. Fire was then used as a tool – first, in a steam engine, then in an internal combustion engine. Today modern vehicles allow us to move around, get warmer, the only thing they do not manage to do is to make an omelet. And all of the above is achieved with low fuel consumption and without any human input. The engine supplies power to the pumps and everything works without any need for additional effort on the part of the user. But this is not always the case. When the temperature goes all "Yakutia", between -40 to -70C degrees, things may get a bit complicated. What can one do then? This is the challenge that the bloggers running the "Kapitan i Admirał: Przygoda i Przypał" [Captain and Admiral: Adventure and Trouble"] blog had to face, driving an old Toyota 4Runner 3.0 TD towards the Moma Range to reach the peak of the highest mountain there, naming it after one of the Polish explorers: Benedykt Dybowski. How one can start a car after a long mountain expedition, with that car left out in the cold, in Taiga, for several days, in freezing temperatures, seriously below zero? EXPEDITION