Tackling a Baikal crossing, while not a cakewalk, isn’t quite as extreme as you might think. You can fly direct from Moscow to Irkutsk, which is just sixty or so miles from the lake, and supply yourself there with almost everything you need. Shuttles cost about a hundred euros each way. When to go? February generally has the best combination of ice conditions and a reasonable amount of daylight. For a Google Doc of known expeditions, their duration, dates, and a lot more, go to adv-jour.nl/Baikal.
In 2016, actor Will Ferrell signed on to play Ralph Plaisted in a buddy comedy about the Plaisted Expedition set to be produced by Sony Pictures. The project was scuttled, reportedly over the Plaisted family’s concerns the story would portray Ralph and his companions as bumbling oafs. A documentary about the expedition, bearing zero oafishness except perhaps for the appearance of Justin
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