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Colin bicycled 750km along the “Road of Bones” to get from Ust Nera to Yakutsk

Beyond the Horizon: Part 3 pp126-169 from outside Ust Nera to Irkutsk, alone (the cyclist below is actually Tim Harvey). Colin bicycled 750km along the “Road of Bones” to get from Ust Nera to Yakutsk. Yakutsk, Yakutian Province, Russia. Colin has been in SiIberia for 6 months

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Colin bicycled 750km along the “Road of Bones” to get from Ust Nera to Yakutsk

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  1. Beyond the Horizon: Part 3 pp126-169from outside Ust Nera to Irkutsk, alone(the cyclist below is actually Tim Harvey)

  2. Colin bicycled 750km along the “Road of Bones” to get from Ust Nera to Yakutsk

  3. Yakutsk, Yakutian Province, Russia • Colin has been in SiIberia for 6 months • The first major city since Fairbanks, Alaska • Pop. 200,000 • A chance to send mail and repair his bicycle • Along the Lena River, the 10th longest River in the world

  4. More images from Yakutsk:

  5. Leaving Yakutsk:Bicycling 1150km on the M56 “highway,” south to the Trans-Siberian Highway

  6. Two stops between Yakutsk and Tynda (the end of the M56): Aldan(left – the town and the river) and Neryungri(right)

  7. Tynda: the end of the M56 and a major hub on the BAM rail line

  8. More images from Tynda:

  9. Outside of Tynda, Colin met another world-traveller: Rosie Swale-Pope who was on her journey to be the first person to jog around the world unassisted

  10. Chita, Russia: 1100km from Irkutsk

  11. More images from Chita

  12. Crossing the Yenisey River • Familiar ground for Colin: in a previous adventure he rowed the Yenisey from its headwaters to its delta in the Arctic Ocean • The photo is of Colin • The Yenisey is the 5th longest river in the world

  13. The “road” between Chita and Ulan-Ude:

  14. Siberia: the land of rivers and bad roads?Crossing the Selenga River, the primary tribuary of the Yenisey River

  15. Ulan-Ude, Buryatia Province, Russialate April

  16. More images from Ulan-Ude:note the Selenga River again, as well as the world’s largest bust of Lenin, one the USSR’s founding heroes

  17. Rounding Lake Baikal, the deepest lake in the world (bottom right is a satellite photo of the lake, frozen)

  18. And finally…Irkutsk, where Colin planned to wait for Tim and Yulya

  19. As with all Russian cities, Irkutsk has Orthodox churches and a statue of Lenin

  20. Irkutsk to Moscow:Colin formally breaks with Tim, but will meet Julie in Moscow

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