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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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…