Possible Clues:

• Unpleasantly cold - sounds like hot stuff
• How cold and mountainous this part of the Americas sounds
• Distant country, say
• With cold, up and down, certainly not warm
• Frigid
• Of weather, cold and icy
• It's cold - cold and mountainous
• See, where it's so mountainous it's not so hot
• Unpleasantly cold or unfriendly in manner
• Unfriendly; coldish