Adventure in Russia
Adventure travel guides
Adventure
Kamchatka: Where Brown Bears Outnumber People and Volcanoes Replace the Horizon
A guide to Russia's remote Pacific peninsula where 300 volcanoes, 15,000 brown bears, and helicopter-only wilderness create one of Earth's last true adventure frontiers.
AdventureLake Baikal: Where the Deepest Lake on Earth Freezes Four Feet Thick, Hides a Freshwater Seal, and Doesn't Forgive Bad Gear
Lake Baikal holds 20% of Earth's freshwater in a single Siberian rift. This guide covers ice diving through four-foot ice, driving across frozen highways to Olkhon Island, tracking the nerpa — the world's only freshwater seal — and hiking the volunteer-built Great Baikal Trail along 636 kilometers of shoreline.