Departing from the southern shores of Lake Baikal at Listvyanka, they walked along the western coast of the lake, before negotiating
Olkhon island, and finishing in Severobaikalsk at the top of the lake.
Summary: Irkutsk [Russia], Jan 28 (ANI): Two people have died and five injured after a fire broke out at a tourist facility on Lake Baikal's
Olkhon Island in Russia.
Russian authorities said that a man had died while traveling in a Volkswagen with six people on the frozen lake close to Siberia's remote
Olkhon Island late Friday.
The next day we set off for an eight-hour road journey to
Olkhon Islands in Lake Baikal.
"Conditions are going to dictate my speed and route choice and so it's impossible to predict my finish time but if the conditions are favourable then I'm hoping to reach the midway check point on the tip of
Olkhon Island in 30 hours.
265 The large conifer forests around Lake Baikal (such as this larch [Larix dahurica] forest on
Olkhon Island in the center of the lake) are an apparently inexhaustible source of wood for the cellulose industry.
We made only one more stop in the water, north of
Olkhon Island, the largest island in Lake Baikal.
As we recrossed the lake and worked our way up the shoreline to
Olkhon Island, exploring villages and hiking woods, and as we argued about procedures and mapping techniques and values, our mutual suspicions slowly gave way to mutual admiration and trust.
Departing from the southern shores of Lake Baikal at Listvyanka, they will traverse the eastern coast of the lake, before negotiating
Olkhon island, and finishing in Severobaikalsk at the top of the lake.