Photo Gallery Chilly Rescue
A German navy pilot helps a child out of a helicopter on the Baltic Sea island of Rügen. On Wednesday, helicopters began airlifting tourists from the nearby island of Hiddensee which is currently only reachable by air due to ice formation on the land and sea routes.
Soldiers and helpers load provisions onto a helicopter destined for the isolated island.
A navy helicopter holding evacuees from Hiddensee lands on Rügen.
Meanwhile storm front "Miriam" has been causing chaos across Germany.
A plowtruck pushes snow off an autobahn in the western German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Snow and ice led to complications on the roads throughout Tuesday night.
A police car blocks off a lane on the A45 autobahn. Whole swaths of the highway had to be shut down on Tuesday night due to black ice formation.
On Wednesday morning, a driver waits for the autobahn to be reopened so he can continue his journey.
Cars plow along a country road on the island of Rügen. Storm front "Miriam" brought strong winds and snowfall to Germany's largest island.
A pedestrian wanders along the snow-covered waterfront in the city of Rostock on Germany's Baltic coast.
These kindergarden children in Queichhambach near the town of Landau troop through the woods amongst strong snowfall and freezing temperatures.
Young people slide down a mountain of snow and ice in the town of Stralsund on Germany's Baltic coast.
An equestrian makes her way across a snow-plastered field on Tuesday in Benediktbeuern, Bavaria.
The Oder River near the German-Polish border has frozen amid record low temperatures. In parts of Brandenburg, the temperature dropped as low as minus 23.7 degrees Celsius in the early hours of Wednesday morning.
