The last great steam show on Earth

摘要

As the battered old taxi slowly bumped and bounced along the frozen ruts, I thought I saw a tell-tale wisp of steam in the distance ... men another, then another, then another! I felt my heart quicken at the prospect of what I was about to witness and began to pull on my thermal gloves and balaclava, without which I'd been told I wouldn't last five minutes as the temperature that afternoon had plunged to minus-24 degrees C.