Doctor, Sister Marie Benedict checks the feet of a Mongolian man, injured by frostbite, at a hospital supported by nuns of Fraternite Notre Dame in the Mongolian capital Ulan Bator January 19, 2006. The Fraternite Notre Dame project, run by a father, a brother and five nuns from the Catholic Church, includes a [soup kitchen, an orphanage and a hospital for homeless and poor Mongolian people]. 

Doctor, Sister Marie Benedict chats with a Mongolian man injured by frostbite at a hospital supported by nuns of Fraternite Notre Dame in the Mongolian capital Ulan Bator January 19, 2006. The Fraternite Notre Dame project, run by a father, a brother and five nuns from the Catholic Church, includes a soup kitchen, an orphanage and a hospital for homeless and poor Mongolian people. REUTERS/Nir Elias 

Doctor, Sister Marie Benedict checks the feet of a Mongolian man, injured by frostbite, at a hospital supported by nuns of Fraternite Notre Dame in the Mongolian capital Ulan Bator January 19, 2006. The Fraternite Notre Dame project, run by a father, a brother and five nuns from the Catholic Church, includes a soup kitchen, an orphanage and a hospital for homeless and poor Mongolian people. REUTERS/Nir Elias 

Chinese visits ruins of live-human frostbite laboratory building of Japanese germ warfare centre located in south of Harbin. A Chinese visits the ruins of the live-human frostbite laboratory building of a Japanese germ warfare centre located in the south of Harbin, capital of northeast China's Heilongjiang province, April 24, 2005. China will seek UNESCO World Heritage protection for the ruins of a Japanese germ warfare centre during World War Two called Unit 731. The laboratories, prisons and crematoria were notorious for experiments on humans to develop germ weapons, such as bubonic plague, typhoid, anthrax and cholera. REUTERS/Jason Lee 

Britain's Caroline Hamilton (L) and Ann Daniels pose for photographs as they reach the North Pole June 2, 2002. The two British explorers, who braved snowstorms and frostbite, have made the record books in becoming the first all-woman team to trek to both Poles. 

A Russian homeless man rests in the central street of Moscow, January
18, 2002. Scores of people have met their death on Moscow's icy streets
from hypothermia or frostbite since the start of a winter that has seen
night temperatures plunge the minus 27 Celsius (minus 17 Farenheit). TO
MATCH FEATURE BC-RUSSIA-HOMELESS REUTERS/Dima Korotayev REUTERS

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Russian homeless boy rests in central Moscow, January 18, 2002. Scores
of people have met their death on Moscow's icy streets from hypothermia
or frostbite since the start of a winter that has seen night
temperatures plunge the minus 27 Celsius (minus 17 Farenheit). TO MATCH
FEATURE BC-RUSSIA-HOMELESS REUTERS/Viktor Korotayev REUTERS

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Russian homeless 13 years old boys Dima (L) and Denis rest in central
Moscow with their dog, January 18, 2002. Scores of people have met
their death on Moscow's icy streets from hypothermia or frostbite since
the start of a winter that has seen night temperatures plunge the minus
27 Celsius (minus 17 Farenheit). TO MATCH FEATURE BC-RUSSIA-HOMELESS
REUTERS/Viktor Korotayev REUTERS

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Sixteen-year-old Temba Tsheri Sherpa, the youngest person to climb the Mount Everest, is felicitated by his school headmaster Laxmanraj Banshi upon his arrival at Kathmandu airport on May 30, 2001. The Nepali schoolboy scaled the world's highest mountain, on May 22, a year after a severe frostbite forced him to turn back from his first attempt at climbing the summit.

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A Russian woman cleans snow in the Beryozovski settlement outside the Siberian city of Kemerovo, January 18, 2001. Across the region amid sub-freezing temperatures, from the Ural mounains to Russia's far east, power companies are limiting heat and light, hot water pipes in homes are crumbling and hospitals face an influx of victims of frostbite and other cold weather injuries.

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An old woman cleans snow in a settlement Beregovoi outside the Siberian city of Kemerovo, January 17, 2001. Across the region from the Ural mounains to Russia's far east, power companies short of fuel are limiting heat and light, hot water pipes in homes are crumbling and hospitals face an influx of victims of frostbite and other coldweather injuries. 

Smoke and steam from heating plants float in the sky over the Siberian city of Kemerovo, late January 16, 2001. Across the region from the Ural mounains to Russia's far east, power companies short of fuel are limiting heat and light, hot water pipes in homes are crumbling and hospitals face an influx of victims of frostbite and other coldweather injuries. 

An old woman looks through the ice covered window of her house in a settlement Beregovoi outside the Siberian city of Kemerovo, January 17, 2001. Across the region from the Ural mounains to Russia's far east, power companies short of fuel are limiting heat and light, hot water pipes in homes are crumbling and hospitals face an influx of victims of frostbite and other coldweather injuries.

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An old woman cleans snow in a settlement Beregovoi outside the Siberian city of Kemerovo, January 17, 2001. Across the region from the Ural mounains to Russia's far east, power companies short of fuel are limiting heat and light, hot water pipes in homes are crumbling and hospitals face an influx of victims of frostbite and other coldweather injuries.

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Members of a South Korean military honour guard, dressed in traditional costumes, use their gloved hands to ward off frostbite on a bitterly cold morning in Seoul as they await the arrival of Japanese Defence Minister Hosei Norota January 7. Koreans woke up to temperatures of -10 degrees centigrade and strong winds that are expected to last for seven days.

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Fruit farmer Peter Schneider of Bornheim some 20 kilometers south of Cologne walks through his frozen apple tree plantation after the temperatures fell under zero degree March 24. The fruit farmer hosed the trees last night, after the weather forecast announced freezing temperatures, to protect his plantation from frostbite. Under a thin layer of frozen water the apple blossoms are insulated keeping their temperature of about plus two degrees Celsius as the outside temperature went way below freezing point.

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