Nidhi Tiwari Became The First Indian To Drive To The Coldest Inhabited Place On Earth

Last December, Nidhi Tiwari made headlines when she drove 23,800 km from Delhi to London in 97 days in an all-woman expedition with her friends. 

This year, she's set to make news again with another extreme expedition.

Tiwari has just completed a 5,000 km road trip in Siberia during the peak of the region's infamously harsh winter. 

She is the first Indian to drive to Oymyakon, considered to be the coldest permanently inhabited place on earth.

The route she chose was a loop from Yakutsk, the world's coldest major city, to the port town of Magadan and back. The 13-day solo trip took Tiwari through the Siberian wilderness, with temperatures as low as minus 59 degree celsius and on roads that are built on permafrost and are notoriously difficult to drive on. The highlight of the trip was Oymyakon, also known as the Pole of Cold.