But whether Maggie, a 22-year-old native of Zimbabwe, is depressed because she is spending another dark and freezing winter in Alaska has been the subject of a long and charged debate, here and across the country.

It had been a harsh and freezing winter on the rocky mountainside and in the valley below.

Arctic and Fabulous Film Festival offers different forms and genres of Nordic film in the middle of most freezing winter season in February.

Its harsh landscape of barren plains, freezing winters and scorching summers has kept human habitation to small number of nomadic camel breeders eking out a solitary existence.

They were made primarily for use in Sweden, as they were specially equipped for surviving snow and ice in freezing winters.

Artichokes don't flower until the second year, but they won't survive that long where freezing winters are the norm.

They are well suited to extremes due to lack of rainfall, hot summers and below freezing winters.

The climate can be extreme with intensely hot summers to freezing cold winters.

Lilacs also love freezing winters, but not soggy soil that turns to ice, so plant them in well-drained places.

Hǎinán is in many ways more like Indochina than the polluted skies, freezing winters and two billion elbows that are often hard to escape on the mainland.