Orjan is a Swedish PhD student who bought a one-way ticket to Mongolia to work at the base camp of our long-term research project. These are his adventures…
If you come to Mongolia you will notice that no matter how cold it is outside it will be very, very warm inside the gers. And warmest of all the gers is the one that Oyuna currently is in. That’s what I think… Last autumn she could come into my ger and throw wood or coal into the stove and immediately go again, leaving me sweating and panting. My protests helped little, she just waited a minute until my focus was elsewhere and then she struck, throwing a large chunk of coal into the fire. I tried opening the door and leave it open to make her understand, nope, she still threw in more wood, I stripped down until I was sitting in my underwear, didn’t help, she kept throwing in wood. I left the door opened, in my underwear… nope didn’t help either.
The ger is so warm that our candles melt–I have pictures.