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Inuit man wearing traditional wooden snow goggles, Canada, ~1924 (lemmy.world)
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[–] sep@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

It is called "snow blindness" in norway. I spent a day with the medics, with salt water running into my eyes. And 2 months of very dark shades and pain killers.
Kind of like having sharp gravel under the eyelids, moving them was horrible.