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Venetian travelers Stefano Gregoretti and Dino Lanzaretti will overcome for 1200 kilometers in Yakutia on bycicles. The journey, which will become the coldest cycling expedition in history, started from Oymyakon. It is assumed that in almost a month the Italians will finish in Verkhoyansk, Rossiyskaya Gazeta reports.
The trip was called Siberia 105°, its goal is to draw attention to the areas of the planet where global warming will have the most severe consequences. Stefano and Dino’s website says that Yakutia experiences huge temperature fluctuations throughout the year (in winter, the temperature 70 almost seventy degrees below zero), which leads to an increase in the number of fires, thawing of permafrost and an increase in greenhouse gas emissions.
It is noted that this winter Yakutia has become a real place of pilgrimage for tourists from all over the world who wanted to feel the local frosts for themselves. Hundreds of guests from the USA, countries of Europe and Asia, regions of Russia met in cities and villages of the regions.
Last spring, Yakutia hosted the premiere of a film about the Italian runner Paolo Venturini, who two years earlier overcame a distance of almost 40 kilometers in Yakutia at temperatures above 50 degrees below zero.
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