Those who want twin toes no one dies have come to the right place here less than fifteen centimeters not this is just your typical with your day here in montreal. In japan children learn how to fly while big pieces pose slaves. And money sixteen heavy draft horses all the strongest. In russia that people keep fit and room for their familiar with winter hickox. I said but you dont drive the. Three coaches street continents the same level. At the hour. Thank the yod at the nyssa pull Services Department six oclock in the morning theres no time to lose the employees have to sort of shovel and sweep before the city awakes last montreal has a population of one point six million and sees more than two metres of snow for each winter its not quite that much today thanks. To our. Maxine feel the need a is dividing up his shift the city center needs to remain possible to vehicles half a Million People and a hundred and sixty thousand cars travelling downtown every day thanks for minimal you know the vehicle to be here we have to remove the bulk of it before russia starts. To get it at its idea all the snow is pushed from the left side of the road to the right side. Where we pick it up later. At what hour in montreal they call this the light snowfall last theres no snow at six in the morning and obey hero. But its definitely freezing cold on japans move and was dial and at minus sixteen degrees celsius. Geo the one with the blaze is harnessed in front of the slaves as an Early Morning exercise a gentle giant who weighs around a ton twice as much as a regular horse. Will go careful hell come this way. Just a loaded with concrete also weighs half a ton this is a Training Session not on snow but on a rubble track just. The. Way it. Thanks. In a country thats hand to heft a sumo wrestlers these animals are here as. The a list of go up some think oh the poor animals but you know what they like the hard work thats hard to understand for outsiders but we live with these horses twenty four hours a day lets get all. The you know if they werent happy they wouldnt look so happy today that today the last call i thought of the one that call you up course like a little. Its the largest shared home for people and horses in the world five hundred giants and two hundred handlers work at the racing stable then ill be here they dont live side by side just a thin wall separates but gio from his coach in my and his family in my eyes wife and daughter have to help out who says they say all their lives. Because the little one is due to take part in the upcoming race. Is the last thing you are. We just. Have a. Draft horses once what the fields and helped build up this settlement in the rugged north after the arrival of heavy machinery the workhorses state and was switched to racing. Were off to russia. When own a gun lake freezes over the only way to get to land is by hovercraft. It takes messes new been said fund to alice to travel a sixty kilometers across the ice to reach their workplace. The and. In hindsight it was impractical to build a World Heritage site in such a remote location but well nobody could have known three hundred years ago that this good chat would be so famous one day. The eat. The vine is stuck in the frozen shoreline vegetation the man will have to complete that journey on foot. The cons of a tour and the carpenter have been working here for years. When we started the whole structure was leaning and the foundations were brittle weve been able to correct that were constantly measuring its special to work with this was of in order to give us a. Taste a little salt history its hard to imagine how the people cut it centuries ago with the technology we dont understand anymore yes it just a small. Id like to. And more about that so to some of those its almost all. Wind weather and worms have all caused Serious Problems for this magnificent structure encountered a lia the land of sixty six thousand lakes its located far beyond St Petersburg and home to baz moves lynxes and foxes. Its half the size of germany that has a population of just six hundred fifty thousand. Visitors are welcome. Its the perfect occasion to put the oven on to bake. My biscuits with minute filling the tundras oncet to pizza or is it was. Until nina is eighty four and to an ina aqim ova has come for tea shes seventy five the two remember very different kinds of winters it used to be much colder and there was a lot more snow we jump off the roofs into the snow and wouldnt look at the washed up which he and the children had to fetch firewood we started collecting it in the spring. We fetched it from the woods with the horses and then with chopped it up with an axe. That mystical that waiters we had a chain saw those were good times. These two women have been friends for half their lives they still take to our long walks together in the woods every day rain or shine because its better to wear out than rust out. Over in canada life in downtown montreal hunting is amid a heavy snow floury such conditions typically cause severe disruptions in countries like germany i. Cant say much about the this is nothing unusual for montreal we have conditions like this for months. The most important thing is to clear the main traffic trees and the song takers and thats our job as its. Just. Two hundred kilometers of roads need to be cleared. As well as three hundred sixty kilometers of sidewalks. Plus countless cars so. Its not tempting weather to venture out into and fortunately theres a way to avoid it the entire city center is connected underground. Songs one knows his way around. The only. Wilkinson my guided tour of hidden montreal is we have a whole network of tunnels offices shops and restaurants can be accessed through them that even temperatures of minus thirty five under snowstorm are no reason to stay home versus it. Residents who live near a subway station can reach their office or go shopping even in the worst weather. That. The french people the thing that we go to school in the early one city that we live the whole life its left through is a cliche thinking that we have a so bad. Winter three year so people are just living on the ground the will of winter we go winter outside but we have this if we dont want to go outside here. Shopping and cinema or even art all spread out across thirty six kilometers of tunnels. This is the map of the underground city there are two subways the green one goes to the shopping district the orange one to the business and financial district six three they all i live off. The main station hotels and the foodland ice rink are connected to the Tunnel Network says sois who impressively manages to complete the majority of the route walking backwards. On the day theres a house that. Was. Walking back word is a technique that we have and so i know im supposed to know where im going if im a professional guide so walking backward i need to have trust of my people so they tell me if im going to hit the wall or something. But thankfully he manages to complete another tour without an accident in here and surprisingly out to come. We make a big leap to the other side of the globe support on her. Love and then. No other city has produced as many accomplished speed jumpers. Their training using a human flight simulator. Just thought thats how children learn the proper body posture and they lose their fear of jumping over the years. The ski jumper wearing that number forty one has no fat tight is believed to be invincible. He tells us that his dream is to participate in the World Championships off to his won then he wants to go on to win an limpid gold. This fighting spirit pleases the coaches and parents. At first i was worried about my boy but you get used to it and now i want him to win that it must. Be even a Student Competition starts with the Japanese National anthem because then not just here for fun. The you also know they had a great ski jumping legend. Is over forty now its about time that the young generation put in some hard work and achieve something. Theyre here to pop some atmosphere this apart on noise team is equipped with a drum a megaphone and a whistle. And. Although lots of girls now diski jumping the club still code jump boy is. The most talented of the moral here is eleven year olds. Hes won fourteen consecutive competitions can anyone. Theres a come. Petition head too and if its true that all girls love horses then fifteen year old chihiro lives in paradise. Ive grown up with horses i want to be a jockey. But i have to lose a lot of weight for that unfortunately. Shes preparing to cio for his big race. The right accessories for his mane all vital says her mother dorothy. And of it all here but its a. Huge state with pink presents reminiscent of how little kitty and cherry blossoms. We women arent usually involved directly with the horses or the train and. We all eat together and we cook we help keep the stables clean. We try to support our men at work as best we can. Or study. In my the coach doesnt reveal whether hes happy with the grooming or not shortly before the race he has other concerns. And theyre very good morning and welcome to our ice fishing competition for a change or taking part with two fishermen each about just. The sporting spirit is also strong on the ice in expanses of lake on a guy and. The local event agency is hosting a fishing competition there are prizes for catching the smallest the largest and the first fish. And the trade call conan is up for the challenge of the middle of winter is a tricky time for the highest. The water is extremely cold and the fish are very lethargic theyre not in the mood to buy to mike walkley youre welcome i know more thats the best time is early in the morning and in the evening post. Where you know. But not before the experts have checked that the ice will hold the only way you. Want to preserve the ice is fifty centimeters think nothings going to happen it only gets dodgy when the ice is seven centimeters on the ice rescue service we dont have much work in winter. They didnt work we get busy in spring march april may. Because weve raised awareness there are now fewer accidents in the years to be with. Us the information flow warns readers dont jump or run no chance andre is going to do any of that the only passenger in a hurry here is mary and from the event agency shes doing her rounds with the sniffer dog to ensure competitors dont smuggle in fish and then pretend they cool down. Like this isnt that what they have what they might. Want to sell if i got. Out. And today is a rule abiding participant hed never do anything like that or talk that if he did i do this for Health Reasons nothing is healthier than getting at a size out in the fresh air you use all your muscles when youre ice fishing or shoulders your back and your legs this is much better than a treadmill or a stationary bike in a gym. Just. A small perch it could be a winning fish good luck. Show low side. Smoke from the chimneys of the paper factory bellows into the sky calm sets in among the participants i stitching is first and foremost a spiritual exercise. Of the refurbishment of carlie as World Heritage site the wooden transfiguration chad is way behind shadow. But the process is complicated. By frame of hundreds of Steel Structures and clams secures the interior the old builders didnt even need nails. To move you. On the edge of town for a wood construction this is really a huge complex we have to make sure we copy the old construction technique and recreated like it was originally. And then we use the same materials everything has to look the same. Theyve been dismantling its log walls piece by piece like a large scale version of pick up sticks to do with you just this year we had to divide the church into seven belts that we removed one after the other before reinstalling them once they had been restored. Were currently working on the fifth belt weve set it up here in the hole next door. Which is. The carpenter and conservation are ordered by the construction skills of the anonymous masters who left these towers to the world three hundred years ago. The winds getting rougher and. In montreal its blowing the clouds away. In the oven canyons of the city and on the sidewalks of the suburbs its time for the big clear up this city has to move twelve million cubic meters of snow and sleet every season thats two hundred thousand truckloads. Machines have come to swallow up the early shift piled up on the right side cut. Youre just going to do its hot in downtown montreal because the people just walk everywhere nobody looks where theyre going as there are delivery trucks and buses all over the place we have to maneuver between them with our equipment on this new possible job but someones got to do it pick up something in the mall yeah i love to know where. The snow is removed to special sites outside the city just get it out of the way. See t. V. News with it so we talk a. Good afternoon montreal by a lunchtime the morning snowstorm isnt making any headlines. It would have to be more severe for that says laurie graham. Shes a t. V. Weather presenter in a city that regularly drowns in snow. Less than fifteen centimeters that thats just your typical winter day here in montreal its once we get into twenty thirty centimeters of snow then it becomes interesting it becomes more of a news story. While forty centimeters have been dumped on auto the forecast for montreal is now freezing rain followed by plane right through the rest of the day today and we saw this storm coming in about a week ago so already a week ago we were warning people that it looked like there would be some significant snow fall coming into montreal on tuesday its not uncommon for much we all to see snow storms with fifteen centimeters its not uncommon for us to see freezing rain we usually get about ten episodes of freezing rain during the winter season. And every time it covers the winter forests with crystals an hours drive from the city we find the canada we see in picture books. There in the spirit. Of the realm of the red maple leaf is also the home of maple syrup the province of quebec produces more of it than any other place and no one sells a greater variety of maple products then stiff fine food in his farm shop to the redo. Of course we have maple syrup and glass or plastic or metal bottles here we have maple butter we have maple chocolates gold nuggets sugar covered not people caring now seventy people when you get here maybe slowly. Assented. Here there are certainly different people. Maple syrup bottles and the maple syrup childrens books cookbooks and on the rules in the three hundred c. Ten maple syrup Speciality Restaurant says the friendly bedded face of piaf oshea the maple syrup king and stephens father. The one whos done sing with the wolf light dog. I dont go to south in order time round. No i wouldnt i wouldnt like to water to the south of the sun because because its the real sees and hears wizards either called the fireplace or the. Pierre is seventy and already knew as a young man want was good for him he gave up his office job and travelled the world then he bought fifty hectares of maple forest and started falling. As a satellite to go to work in a traffic study day at the office to come back in a traffic to get. Your they have no sense of accomplishment and then youre back in the traffic going to morning shaded area for us and the people talking about we can hardly retirements and youre always on like in a waiting state because they cant make do n. Timely without office work even here because the maple sugar farm is a top Tourist Destination seventy thousand visitors heat the course of the wild every year or what they believe the wild to be. But time as no beginning as it was with no new supplies are being delivered to the kitchen the business never sleeps Food Accommodation Company trades seminars School Classes and wedding parties and stefan is busy with a new idea maple syrup popsicles. And when the young man was there to ruin the world. Now no. Now still no. Now. The sapporo noise team is ready its high time to. The youngsters the ones the japanese ski jumping a says the asian is pinning its hopes on fly distances measuring between three and twenty five may just that fills parents and coaches with pride all the participants get three jumps and its an exciting day because the favorite by far is having a bad day. Because of. The way his last jumbo they decisive after fourteen consecutive victories the eleven year old cant even imagine anymore what its like not to win. The. Odia is messed up some way his rival is cheering. Hes not on the podium this time. His father used to be a ski jumper himself he knows what the problem was his landing technique hasnt been perfected. The it so happens that its you have to concentrate better on landing you have to practice your technique constantly it doesnt matter how badly you jump you have to finish it cleanly. But you have to work even harder to get. Tight is not in the mood to listen anymore he wants to be alone winning seems so easy losing however takes practice. No than japan is another region that seen a lot less snow than usual. Climate change or just coincidence its enough a pretty picture but not for records and its enough for the children winter fun outside the racetrack and obey hero the kids are entertained so that the adults can gamble in peace and quiet. The locals love gambling casinos are banned here but Sports Betting is allowed. With the white markings on his face and the pink presence in his main is in good shape says. His jockey you know youre. Going out on well with him and we never argue. But you cant just win a race with pleasantries sometimes you have to give clear orders. To. The live broadcast on the internet starts with a fanfare. Is in the forecast track is also money to fall. But then i havent really gets going. Stop fighting. Wow. He even takes the lead until such cano can own a rides. Thanks sir can i can own a is on track seven a he takes it looks like chill has lost steam but he gives it his own length come the second best of the top thats a big success for the gentle giant thanks to what to do when he doesnt have the perfect nature of a race horse. Hes much too friendly go down with all the other horses get angry but hes placid and he puts up with anything. One is done with and that. This town wouldnt win a beauty competition with its hotel blocks. Nobody bet is not far from support of nevertheless its a popular resort for the japanese it has hot springs a large number of Chinese Tourists have started coming in recent years too they enjoy the too narrow and want to see snow. There are young men assem