Kyle Wright
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Considering climate, terrain, flora and fauna, everything but the people that live there, really, which country would you say is the most inhospitable?
Most Inhospitable Country
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This is really going to depend on if someone loves the cold or loves the heat.
Wade Burns
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Well from my experience I’ve worked and lived in jungle, desert, prairie, forest, and arctic conditions. To me it’s always a toss up between the arctic and the desert. IMO though they are polar opposite in temps they really present you with pretty similar challenges. Fight moving in sand or snow, logistically harder to get or access goods over the distances between buying the stuff and getting to your base camp, sweat or shiver (think I prefer shiver), sand storm and snow storm relatively same shit. Can’t see or breath well in either (though dust storm gets into every damn thing but snow isnt far behind which melts, gets you wet and then freezes again. In the end though given the choice I think I would take the arctic conditions every time. I do truly love the challenges of living in a northern climate no matter how weird that sounds lol. In truth every country and terrain has its challenges, but I pick desert. So pretty much any Middle East shitbox for my choice.
My sentiments exactly!
I think this is a pretty fair assessment. Most people have a higher tolerance for either heat or cold - they can put up with one but absolutely abhor the other. Probably comes down to that preference.
If I wanna take a swim in the river, and there's something in there that wants to slither it's way up towards the family jewels? Nah....
Kyle Wright
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That's actually what got me thinking. I had long believed that Africa's predators were the most dangerous on earth. Then I reread Lost City of Z and got to thinking about all that could kill you in the Amazon and now I'm not sure.
Yes. We had a great friend in our local WI BMW moto club who slowly made some connections in Brazil with a family who owned a ton of farm property. He would "winter" down there working for their farms, and return for our moto riding season up here, with some incredible hair raising adventure stories. Another guy was a Peru transplant to WI, and he had some great knowledge. Sometimes scary shit, but you know.....take them King fishing out on Lake Michigan and show them a lamprey eel, they might not ever jump into that water again!? What's this Lost City of Z, and does Joe Rogan know about it?
What’s your preference? There’s no such thing as bad weather, only bad gear. But also you can only get so much naked and that’s when the heat will kill me.
Like you, Ron, I am a tropical people. I can tolerate extreme heat for longer periods than frigid cold. But for the right adventure, I'm down for either as long as I have the right gear. What about you?
I prefer the cold with good gear.
Steven Donovan
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Arctic/Antarctic.
I say this as someone that grew up in the cold.
The desert can kill, but the cold can kill quicker.
I say this as someone that grew up in the cold.
The desert can kill, but the cold can kill quicker.
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Wade Burns
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I like quick kills better than long drawn out ones lol.
Steven Donovan
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Another thought - one of the things that has always been very fascinating is how different climates/weather patterns heavily affect the culture of the people and societies that live in said places.
I would argue that warmer weather cultures have, absolutely, different cultures as compared to cold weather cultures.
I would argue that warmer weather cultures have, absolutely, different cultures as compared to cold weather cultures.
Most Inhospitable country? Id say Alaska - yes it is its own country. Summer is so buggy you can't breathe. The frigid winters are simply a respite from the bugs and allows for overland travel via snow machine. When I was 21 I wanted to live there. Now past 50 I am happy to visit once a year but wouldn't want to live there.
