On the great ice road

Journalism , Russia , Travel Jun 16, 2012 No Comments

Those crazy Russians. We have just overtaken a fishing boat on Lake Baikal in eastern Siberia and are now heading at a clip across its surface in the direction of its largest island.

We are not in a boat but a four-wheel-drive and the fishing boat is frozen in place. As it recedes into the distance behind us, the sheer magnitude and madness of what we are doing sets in. But there is no other way in winter to reach Olkhon Island, the world’s third largest lake-bound island.

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“We’re not crazy,” Irkutsk native Leonid Batorov, our guide, laughs from the driver’s seat. “We have to get around somehow.”

Read the full article in The Australian.

Matthew Clayfield

Matthew Clayfield is a journalist, critic and screenwriter.

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