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Roman Shaltagachev, a graduate of Tomsk Polytechnic University, managed to make a monthly solo expedition to the ice of winter Baikal.
Without going ashore for four weeks, a resident of Buryatia walked along a reservoir of more than six hundred kilometers. Member of public sports the Academy of Survival organization had to transfer significant physical and psychological stress, but in the end he achieved of what I wanted.
The extreme stepped on a frozen lake on February twenty-seventh. Before that, he was in Novosibirsk for several days. Obskoe reservoir, training and testing its capabilities. According to Roman, he challenged the elements primarily for in order to draw the attention of compatriots to pollution the largest lake and reservoir of fresh water on the planet. how Baikal is known to be an extremely valuable natural site, however, it annually receives many tons of waste that slowly but inexorably kill the pond.
Shaltagachev also wanted to find out how the human body behave in such difficult conditions. The conditions were harsh in particular, because the athlete decided to overcome Lake Baikal did not across, and along. The transition was very difficult and unpredictable. Previously, no one of such expeditions to Lake Baikal committed, so Roman can safely be considered a pioneer.
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The severe test of Baikal
In the arsenal of the Russian there was a tent, a sleeping bag, sled drag on which he transported provisions, as well as some Electronics and solar charger. In the current an age of technological progress would be foolish to abandon the system satellite navigation. No concessions when crossing Baikal along it does not, however, it allows you to clearly determine which path you are already overcame and how much remains to go.
The traveler’s provisions were cereals, dry soups, biscuits, fat and honey. In the first half of the way, Shaltagachev fully ate three times a day, but then realized that he was spending products too wasteful, and at such a pace they will not be enough until the end of the journey. They really weren’t enough, and the last few days were extreme I used only water. Fortunately, timely rationalization allowed the Siberian to starve without harm to health. Sleeping man in a tent on ice.
The athlete fell into the epicenter of the storm, made his way through the dead cracks, snow deposits and hummocks, appeared several times without communication. On March 25, Roman reached the skeleton of Yarki in the north of Lake Baikal, and this meant that he had finally crossed the pond.
For his achievement, a man thanks the hardy human nature, turned out to be relatively favorable to him natural forces, as well as relatives and friends who supported him during the whole travels.
Water Lake Baikal Siberia
