13th March – As we head of camp, we hit the zimnik (local highway on ice and snow). Conditions are a bit better on the road and we doing good progress…
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THE
ICE RUN
2 MECHANICALLY IMPOTENT BLOKES.
1 ANTIQUE RUSSIAN MOTORCYCLE.
AND THE DEEPEST LAKE IN THE WORLD.
This is the adventure that separates the men from the boys and the ladymen from the ladyboys. Invasive cold, biblical remoteness, and a vehicle so notoriously temperamental it makes John McEnroe look like the Dalai Lama.
Ladies and Gentlemen Baikal is the deepest lake in the world, 25 million years in the making. If our Ural motorbike plunges through the ice here it will fall a mile before it hits the bottom. At which point we’ll probably not get it back.
We don’t have a set a route, we are just given GPS co-ordinates of fuel drops and some particularly hazardous bits to avoid (best not to get the two mixed up).
HERE IS A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT OUR LACK OF PLAN
This year our charity is Cool Earth.
The reality of climate change is no longer up for debate. It is real and it is happening now. Keeping rainforest standing is the simplest and cheapest way to mitigate climate change.
KEEP IT COOL, DONATE NOW.
Cool Earth is the charity that works alongside indigenous villages to halt rainforest destruction.
— Cool Earth
FREDDY
Frederic Chanut, 32, aka Freddy, is an adept of corn chips + salsa and often watch internet comic strips.
Freddy brings to the team his … iPod full of outdated music, a driving genre of his own and humour that will definitely make Michael cringe way before hitting Perth outer suburbs.
MICHAEL
Michael Scholz, 31, aka Micha or Scholle, is a passionate soccer player & off-road specialist with his Jeep Wrangler Rubicon.
The major assets Michael brings to the team are his ability to manage a project from start, his high level planning/project management skills.
Ladies and Gentlemen Baikal is the deepest lake in the world, 25 million years in the making. If our Ural motorbike plunges through the ice here it will fall a mile before it hits the bottom. At which point we’ll probably not get it back.
We don’t have a set a route, we are just given GPS co-ordinates of fuel drops and some particularly hazardous bits to avoid (best not to get the two mixed up).
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11th March – As we push further we aim for the fuel drop about 150 km ahead. Everybody is pretty fixated on making that distance today but many issues keep…
Riding, sorry, jumping over open cracks full of icy water, getting ourselves out of deep snow, managing the bike a little better was the main part of our ice training….
We leave Irkutsk with great excitement, trepdation. Panther, our bike is purring like a very big cat with a bit of a cold. Driving through the centre was beautiful. Typical…
Ladies and Gentlemen this is the deepest lake in the world, 25 million years in the making, Lake Baikal. If our Ural plunges through the ice here it will fall a mile…
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All our adventures and the stash of cash raised for a number of charities
wouldn’t have been possible without those legends.
Invasive cold, biblical remoteness, and a vehicle so notoriously temperamental it makes John McEnroe look like the Dalai Lama.
Thunder 10,000 miles across the mountains, desert and steppe of Europe and Asia. There’s no backup, no support and no set route. Just us and a granny car…
A challenge to achieve to the unthinkable – to drive cars worth $1,000 across Australia most arduous roads…
COVERAGE
Our travel malarkey managed to attract us worldwide coverage.
The kind our mums won’t be proud of…
