Epic adventure across the frozen lake Baikal / TRAILER

Karolis Mieliauskas recently completed an extraordinary challenge when he rode his motorbike across Lake Baikal in Russia. Lake Baikal is the deepest lake in the world and saw him ride the 800km length of it over a number of days.

Lake Baikal freezes only during a few months of the year. Karolis chose March for his ride because the worst winter storms have usually passed by then, yet it’s still cold enough to maintain up to 6 feet (2 meters) of ice. “But there are many ice cracks with open water, sometimes every 500 meters.” says Karolis. He chose to not bring camping equipment so he had to make sure he reached the shore before sunset to stay at a hunter hut or guesthouse where he could spend each night.

Karolis was driving up to 20km from the shore. From that distance the shore can be seen but not a house on it. It was a lot of snow for the first days. It was completely not standard for this part of the season. Sometimes the snow made for very low visibility. Snow covers ice cracks… Nobody was driving those days which resulted in no traces. So being alone, far from shore on the ice of the deepest lake in the world, in the extreme cold, theoretically might be dangerous. But there is no room for the thoughts like this while driving as it may result some loose of control – too dangerous, too cold, too far away.

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