The United Kingdom, facing its coldest winter in years, alone accounted for 73 Bcf.
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But it is painfully hard to find warmth in the coldest winter in two decades.
The coldest winter Denmark had experienced for almost 25 years meant the sea resembled a giant gray slush puppy.
"The award is really for all those guys who've endured the coldest winter in memory in order to keep our cards marked, " Mr Amos said.
The group set about helping the family cope with first the girls' immediate medical needs, and later with surviving the frigid temperatures of Kabul's coldest winter in memory.
Mr Stevenson said "Scotland faced its coldest winter temperatures in almost a century - and quite rightly people across Scotland needed to heat their homes to keep warm and safe".
The villages of Benson in Oxfordshire and Braemar in Aberdeenshire saw some of the coldest temperatures this winter during the night.
They were then marched for 30 days to Nagasaki, a distance of nearly 500 miles, in the coldest part of winter.
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Temperatures in England plummeted overnight but failed to match the coldest night of the winter so far.
In January, the temperature in Altnaharra, near Lairg in Sutherland, dropped to -22.3C, making it the coldest place in Britain this winter.
The coldest weather so far this winter is creeping over the northern United States this week, the National Weather Service said , sending the temperature plunging below zero in Chicago for the first time in 711 days.
But winter for firefighters in the coldest climates is no laughing matter.
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The National Trust for Scotland (NTS) site had its coldest temperatures in more than 30 years over the winter.
Average winter temperatures in Novosibirsk are around -13 to -21c in the coldest month (January), and up to 25c in summer.
Here, in this Ottawa winter, it is dismayingly easy to recall claims that Canada's capital city is the coldest after Ulan Bator.
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The rest of the team will continue with their 2, 000-mile (3, 219km) trek as part of the "Coldest Journey" expedition as they aim to become the first people in history to cross the Antarctic in winter.
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