The Coldest Ride to Oymyakon
I‘m lithuanian adventure rider Karolis Mieliauskas, I spent seven days riding on frozen Lake Baikal, the largest freshwater lake by volume and deep in the world.
It was a solo travel, I had no support truck behind me, no people waiting for my emergency call, no satellite phone or experience in riding on ice, not even a tent. It was me, my motorcycle, water, hot tea, snacks, extra fuel, basic tools and some clothes.
For the first day of my journey I faced a lot of difficulties at once. It was extremely low visibility, deep deep snow and snow storm. In the snow storm I lost any kind of track. I tried not to stop as restarting became very difficult due to the deep snow (snow quantity sometimes reached nearly my knees). I was approaching the outfall of Angara (330 rivers inflows Baikal and Angara is the only river outflows) which was waiting for me as extreme size of unfrozen water in front. Suddenly I noticed a human trace and saw two silhouettes in the distance. Approaching them, they were on foot with backpacks. Moving slowly and looking at me. I stopped, started to speak, and guess what, they were Lithuanians, the same as me.The World has become very small.
All my travel I have to cope with extream cold sometimes it reached -30̊C also Ice cracks – passing/jumping/over them was the biggest challenge. It required a lot of physical energy. Other thing is constantly changing ice and snow condition. In the evening you think you know ice already and may imagine tomorrows ride. But once started in a morning you see that ice is different again. Every day like this. Snow became harder, ice rougher and vice versa.
Regardless of all difficulties I have defeated those challenges and I will not stop. . Next stop- Oymyakon, the coldest inhabited place in the world.
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Submitted February 07, 2019 at 06:18PM by KarolisMieliauskas http://bit.ly/2HYzAOs
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