Going to ExtremesNick Middleton, a geography lecturer at Oxford University, likes bad weather. In National Geographics !"part #$ series Going to Extremes, Nick travels to the places with the %ost extre%e weather in the world & the hottest, coldest, wettest, and driest places. In one episode of the series, Nick visits the 'anakil in North (ast (thiopia. #he 'anakil is a desert of salt. Its )** %etres lower than sea level and its hot+ #he te%perature is often higher than ,* degrees. #he highest recorded te%perature in the world is ,-. in /ibya. 0ut the 'anakil has the highest average te%perature. In su%%er, its never lower than !*..#he local people, the 1far, are very tough. #he %en carry guns and long knives. 0ut Nick finds their softer side2 hair. #hese %en spend two hours a day working on their big 1fro hair. In this heat, they say, their hair is better than a hat.In another episode of the series, Nick travels to the worlds coldest inhabited place. In Oy%yakon, 3iberia, the average winter te%perature is lower than %inus 4,.. Only 1ntarctica is colder, but nobody lives there. Nick also visits the wettest place in the world, Mawsynra% in India, and the driest place, 1rica in 5hile.