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reussir-a-tout-prix · 7 months

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MATCH EN COURS. FC Barcelone 1-1 Real Madrid LA LIGA / 11E JOURNÉE ESTADI OLÍMPIC LLUÍS COMPANYS. Le FC Barcelone accueille le Real Madrid ce samedi (16 h 15) dans ce qui représente le choc de l’année en Espagne. Les deux formations ne sont séparées que d’une unité au classement. Les Madrilènes sont provisoirement deuxièmes de Liga derrière le surprenant leader Gérone, et juste devant les Blaugranas. Suivez le Clásico en live. FC Barcelone 1-0 Real Madrid en Live Texte Commenté par KAFUNEL [caption id="attachment_353919" align="alignnone" width="612"] Matchs de football en live texte commenté par KAFUNEL.COM Suivez les matchs de football en live[/caption] BARCELONE : Ter Stegen (cap.) - Araujo, Christensen, Martinez - Cancelo, Lopez, Gavi, Gündogan, Balde - Félix, Torres. Entraîneur : Xavi. REAL : Arrizabalaga - Carvajal (cap.), Rudiger, Alaba, Mendy - Valverde, Tchouaméni, Kroos - Bellingham - Rodrygo, Vinicius Jr. Entraîneur : Carlo Ancelotti. DIRECT. FC Barcelone - Real Madrid : Gundogan et le Barça font la course en tête dans ce Clásico vbcbcbcbcb 86E ...Modric frappe ce corner à gauche. Le ballon part dans les gants de Ter Stegen qui relance vite... 85E Le Real Madrid répond avec Vinicius qui avait disparu mais porte le ballon sur la gauche. Corner pour les visiteurs... 84E 83E Les Blaugrana mettent la pression sur la défense adverse mais Lewandowski n'ose pas reprendre de 20 mètres dans l'axe puis rate son geste. 82E Le Barça se remet à jouer vers l'avant, le Real résiste et les dernières minutes s'annoncent totalement indécises et surtout disputées. 81E 80E Live comment icon Les débats s'emballent dans cette fin de match ! Servi à droite de la surface adverse, Gavi enroule du gauche. Le ballon fuit cependant la cible. 79E Live comment icon Le Barça réplique tout de suite et Lewandowski place une reprise de 20 mètres légèrement à droite qui file au-dessus de la cage de Kepa ! 79E Pas de penalty pour le Real Madrid ! 78E Le Barça procède en contres. Sans succès car la défense madrilène s'est reprise. 77E Moins d'un quart à jouer désormais dans ce Clasico, le Barça maîtrisait la rencontre mais n'a pas doublé la mise et s'est fait reprendre. Le Real Madrid a pris l'ascendant dans les intentions. 76E Live comment icon Cancelo et Joao Felix sont remplacés par Raphinha et Yamal. 76E ...les Madrilènes combinent pour une frappe puissante de Valverde qui est assez logiquement contrée par le mur barcelonais. 75E Faute de Cancelo sur Camavinga après un centre en retrait rasant de Carvajal venu de la droite et bon coup franc madrilène à venir à 20 mètres plein axe... 74E Modric réalise aussi une entrée remarquée, il éclaire le jeu offensif des Merengue. 73E C'est maintenant le Real Madrid qui pousse. Le but de Bellingham a redonné de l'énergie à ses partenaires. 72E Oriol Romeu remplace Fermin pour le Barça. O. Romeu ENTRANT O. ROMEU FC BARCELONE F. Lopez SORTANT F. LOPEZ FC BARCELONE CARTONS JAUNES : 1 FAUTES : 2 FAUTES SUBIES : 1 TIR SUR LE POTEAU / LA BARRE 70E Le Barça était au-dessus mais a manqué d'envie offensive et de réussite. Il l'a payé avec cette égalisation. 69E Live comment icon Invisible depuis le coup d'envoi alors qu'il était très attendu, Jude Bellingham est soudainement sorti de sa boîte pour claquer son 9e but en Liga, son 12e de la saison. 68E BUUUUUT POUR LE REAL MADRID !!! BELLINGHAM claque un missile de loin et égalise. 1-1. 68E Live comment icon Le coup de canon de Tchouaméni de 25 mètres légèrement à gauche ? Ter Stegen doit plonger devant son poteau droit pour détourner en corner ! 67E Live comment icon 500e match avec le Real Madrid pour Luka Modric. 66E ...Aucun danger pour Kepa ensuite sur le corner à gauche frappé par Gundogan. 65E Cancelo revient à la charge à droite de la surface madrilène, Camavinga est dépassé et le Portugais frappe mais son tir est dévié en corner sur la gauche... 64E Le Barça n'a pas encore su faire le break et le Real reste dans le coup au niveau du score. 63E Live comment icon

Ancelotti répond et lance Modric et Joselu à la place de Kroos et Rodrygo. 62E Le Barça devrait encore davantage peser devant avec son serial buteur polonais même si Ferran au particîper au jeu offensif catalan. 61E Live comment icon Xavi décide de lancer Lewandowski qui revient de blessure à la place du discret Ferran. R. Lewandowski ENTRANT R. LEWANDOWSKI FC BARCELONE FC Barcelone F. Torres SORTANT F. TORRES FC BARCELONE FC Barcelone 61E Live comment icon Carton jaune pour Carvajal qui a retenu le virevoltant Joao Felix au milieu de terrain. D. Carvajal CARTON JAUNE D. CARVAJAL REAL MADRID Real Madrid 60E Ah Cancelo est de nouveau lancé sur la droite. Cette fois, il centre vite au sol dans la course en cherchant Joao Felix dans l'axe mais le ballon part sur le vigilant Kepa. 59E Live comment icon OUH CANCELO !!!! Camavinga s'est montré devant mais ne peut rien dans sa surface face à Caneclo qui est lancé en profondeur puis le dribble joliment en repiquant dans l'axe. Le Portugais enchaîne le tir du gauche qui passe pourtant au-dessus de la cage grande ouverte de Kepa. Cancelo semblait toutefois légèrement hors-jeu au départ. 58E Live comment icon Les Merengue passent sur la droite, Camavinga dézone et vient devant la surface adverse pour permettre à Kroos de placer une frappe rasante de 20 mètres qui est cadrée mais que Ter Stegen capte sans trop de souci. 57E Car le Real Madrid se reprend doucement, se veut pus actif et tente de pousser pour égaliser. 56E Attention aux regrets pour le Barça qui n'attaque pas assez et a déjà trouvé deux fois le poteau. 55E Ter Stegen sort maintenant à droite de sa surface et plonge sur un ballon en profondeur destiné à Vinicius mais peu précis. 54E Ce premier corner madrilène du match sur la gauche ne permet pas d'inquiéter Ter Stegen. 54E Ouh Bellingham se montre enfin ! Il est lancé dans la surface adverse depuis la gauche mais Gavi revient pour le contrer et concéder le corner. 53E Ce corner barcelonais joué par Gundogan sur la gauche ne donne rien d'intéressant cette fois. 52E Live comment icon Oh le Real a encore eu très chaud mais s'en est sorti. Camavinga remplace Mendy avant un corner à gauche pour le FC Barcelone. 51E ...le poteau pour le Barça sur une tête d'Iñigo Martínez puis la parade de KEPA devant ARAUJO ! 50E Dans son rôle de piston droit, Cancelo va provoquer devant Mendy et obtient un corner... 49E Valverde s'active sur la droite, Rodrygo adresse ensuite un centre mais cela manque trop de présence devant la cage de Ter Stegen qui s'empare facilement du ballon. 48E Les hommes de Carlo Ancelotti semblent décidés à en faire davantage qu'en première période. 47E Live comment icon Enfin une occasion madrilène ! Rodrygo est lancé à droite de la surface barcelonaise, Iñigo Martínez est dépassé mais le Brésilien ne parvient à trouver le cadre sur son tir croisé dans la course. 47E Vinicius se fait encore mordre les mollets par Gavi qui a bien touché le ballon mais est aussi intervenu dangereusement par derrière et est sanctionné. 46E Live comment icon C'est reparti pour la seconde période entre Barcelonais et Madrilènes ! Pas de changement à signaler. 17:11 MBAPPÉ-HAALAND : QUI AURA LE PLUS DE BALLON D'OR ? L'ère Messi-Ronaldo au Ballon d'Or devrait se terminer en 2023 avec le huitième et dernier trophée de Lionel Messi en la matière. Après l'Argentin et le Portugais, le duel le plus probable devrait tourner autour de Kylian Mbappé et Erling Haaland. Lequel des deux remportera le plus de Ballon d'Or ? Maxime Dupuis et Julien Pereira en débattent dans le FC Stream Team, émission à écouter en podcast. 17:10 MESSI-MBAPPÉ-HAALAND | UN GRAND FAVORI, DEUX OUTSIDERS : NOTRE TOP 5 DU BALLON D'OR 2023. Sauf énorme surprise, Lionel Messi devrait remporter le huitième Ballon d'Or de sa carrière, grâce au titre mondial remporté avec l'Argentine en Coupe du monde. Derrière la Pulga, quels joueurs complèteraient le Top 5 final ? Maxime Dupuis et Julien Pereira vous dressent la liste de ceux qui devraient se classer derrière l'Argentin dans l'émission podcast FC Stream Team.

(Réal : Seb.Petit) 17:06 58% de possession en faveur du Barça pour le moment. 5 tirs barcelonais pour 1 seul cadré, 0 sur 5 pour le Real Madrid. 2 corners à 0. FIN DE 1ÈRE PÉRIODE 45E+2 C'est la pause dans ce Clasico et le FC Barcelone mène 1-0 face au Real Madrid grâce à un but rapide de Gundogan ! Les Barcelonais se montrent supérieurs à des Madrilènes impuissants mais tout reste possible. 45E+2 Live comment icon Grosse faute de Ferran sur le contre madrilène avec un placage sur Vinicius au niveau de la ligne médiane. Cela lui vaut un carton jaune. F. Torres CARTON JAUNE F. TORRES FC BARCELONE CARTONS JAUNES : 1 FAUTES : 1 FAUTES SUBIES : 1 45E+1 Live comment icon Les Catalans mettent la pression sur leurs adversaires après le corner à gauche avec un centre-tir de Gundogan que Kepa doit boxer aux six mètres. 45E+1 Corner à gauche maintenant pour le Barça qui a insisté sur la droite avec un bon centre d'Araujo. Rudiger a bien fait de dévier de la tête au second juste devant Ferran. 45E ...l'ancien Mancunien envoie le ballon au second poteau où la défense madrilène le repousse de la tête. 45E Le FC Barcelone obtient un premier corner sur la droite. Il sera frappé par Gundogan... 44E Aie le tacle dur de Carvajal sur Ferran dans l'entrejeu. L'attaquant y est aussi allé fort mais obtient bien la faute. 43E Kroos se veut volontaire. Il est cependant contré à gauche de la surface catalane. 42E Lancé dans l'axe, Joao Felix déboule dans la surface madrilène. Il manque de soutien, cherche à dribbler puis est stoppé par Rudiger et Carvajal. 42E Face à cet adversaire inoffensif, le FC Barcelone devrait pousser mais ce n'est plus vraiment le style de la maison et les locaux restent prudents. 41E Mendy et Vinicius combinent sur la gauche et le Brésilien arrive à proximité de la zone de vérité pour une tentative de petit centre qui est contrée. 40E Tchouaméni, lui, continue de ronronner dangereusement au milieu de terrain même s'il obtient finalement la faute de Joao Felix. 39E A l'image de ce dernier tir de Carvajal, c'est insuffisant de la part du Real Madrid. 38E Live comment icon De loin dans l'axe, Kroos trouve le remuant Carvajal à droite de la surface barcelonaise pour un contrôle puis un tir en anglé fermé qui part dans le petit filet extérieur de Ter Stegen. 37E Pendant ce temps, Kroos, Valverde et Tchouaméni ne créent rien sur le plan offensif. Rodrygo se fait discret. Le Real Madrid n'y arrive pas. 36E Les latéraux madrilènes Carvajal et Mendy jouent le rôle d'ailiers mais sont parfaitement contenus comme le très peu influent Bellingham. →> A lire aussi 35E Titulaire à droite du milieu de terrain aujourd'hui, Cancelo repique dans l'axe et donne à Gundogan devant la surface adverse mais l'Allemand rate sa petite ouverture en profondeur. 34E Les Catalans demeurent toutefois assez prudents et ne forcent pas leurs attaques pour le moment. 33E Les joueurs de Xavi contrôlent les débats grâce à une meilleur organisation tactique et davantage de hargne. Ils doivent maintenant tenter de doubler la mise. 32E Pendant que Vinicius s'agace et se déconcentre, Baldé file sur la, gauche du camp madrilène et entre dans la surface de kepa où il est stoppé de justesse. 31E Les Barcelonais restent supérieurs dans la vivacité et l'envie dans les duels face à dces visiteurs assez mous. 30E L'actif et mordant Carvajal montre la voix à ses partenaires pendant que le public encourage les Blaugrana. 29E Pas de penalty pour le Barça ! Joao Felix file dans l'axe après un petit pont sur Rudiger et entre dans la surface madrilène où Carvajal le reprend d'un excellent tacle in extremis sans faire faute. 28E Carvajal adresse un petit centre sur la droite, la défense barcelonaise le repousse. Mendy tente ensuite de travailler sur la gauche mais cela ne donne rien. 27E Pas assez de mouvement ni de jeu sur les côtés côté Merengue. 26E Le Real Madrid peine à franchir la ligne médaine face à un FC Barcelone efficace dans son pressing. 25E Baldé tente

de passer sur la gauche, il arrive aux abords de la surface de Kepa mais pousse finalement le ballon en sortie de but devant Carvajal. 24E Tchouaméni, lui, reste emprunté et même un peu perdu dans son placement. 23E [caption id="attachment_353944" align="alignnone" width="1280"] FC Barcelone 1-0 Real Madrid en Live Texte Commenté par KAFUNEL[/caption] LIRE AUSSI Liga. Gérone gagne face au Celta Vigo et prend la tête en attendant le Clasico 22E Wouh le missile axial et lointain signé Rüdiger ?? L'Allemand envoie une frappe plongeante qui file de très peu à gauche de la cage de Ter Stegen qui plonge mais semblait court. 21E Les Madrilènes veulent rester dans la moitié de terrain catalane et faire tourner le ballon. Sans succès. Ils s'exposent à un contre axial sur lequel ils résistent. Les visiteurs répondent vite ensuite mais la défense du Barça tient bon. 20E Servi sur la gauche du camp adverse, Vinicius provoque tout de même une faute d'Araujo. Le coup franc excentré est cependant vite joué en retrait. 19E Malgré son onze remanié, le FC Barcelone se montre très supérieur à un Real Madrid sans idées et défaillant pour le moment. [caption id="attachment_353945" align="alignnone" width="1280"] 19E Malgré son onze remanié, le FC Barcelone se montre très supérieur[/caption] 18E Fermin y va un peu trop fort dans son pressing haut, commet la faute et est averti. F. Lopez CARTON JAUNE F. LOPEZ FC BARCELONE CARTONS JAUNES : 1 FAUTES : 2 TIR SUR LE POTEAU / LA BARRE : 1 TIRS NON CADRÉS : 1 17E Face à ces visiteurs empruntés, le Barça peut clairement espérer vite faire le break. 16E Le poteau pour le Barça ! C'est Fermin Lopez qui tire au sol sur le montant droit de Kepa à l'entrée de la zone de vérité après une récupération haute de Gavi suite à une relance ratée de Valverde sur la droite. Les Madrilènes ont voulu jouer court mais se sont loupés. 15E Les joueurs de Carlo Ancelotti restent mal inspirés collectivement et impuissants avec une ouverture pour Mendy sur la gauche qui finit en touche. 14E Les Blaugrana ne tremblent pas face à cette timide volonté madrilène. Ils profitent même des espaces dans le camp adverse sur la gauche. La défense du Real revient toutefois comme il faut. 12E Les Barcelonais ne cherchent à pousser et les Madrilènes peuvent chercher à réagir. 10E Ce début de match doit plaire aux Rolling Stones, présents dans les tribunes à Montjuic. 9E Les Barcelonais, eux, se montraient hésitants à la construction mais ce but rapide les met évidemment en confiance. 8E Trop tendre en défense, le Real Madrid a été cueilli à froid. Vinicius tente de sonner la révolte sur la gauche, sans succès. 7E 1er but avec le Barça pour İlkay Gündoğan qui prend ses responsablités d'entrée. 6E BUUUUT POUR LE FC BARCELONE !! GUNDOGAN ouvre déjà le score. 1-0. L'Allemand passe dans l'axe, s'appuie sur Ferran, profite d'une intervention ratée de Tchouaméni puis d'un tacle trop tendre d'Alaba pour se présenter face à Kepa et le tromper facilement. I. Gündogan BUT I. GÜNDOGAN FC BARCELONE BUTS : 1 TIRS CADRÉS : 1 COUPS FRANCS : 1 6E Le jeu s'annonce très axial des deux côtés et il va certainement falloir écarter les offensives. 5E Kroos va secouer Gavi et les Balugrana peuvent conserver le ballon au niveau de la ligne médiane. 4E Le Barça se met doucement en place avec ce onze de départ remanié. Il veut s'emparer du ballon dans l'entrejeu mais peine. 3E Ce sont Bellingham et les Madrilènes qui prennent les choses en mains sur la pelouse de leurs adversaires. 1ÈRE PÉRIODE 1E C'est parti pour ce Clasico entre le FC Barcelone et le Real Madrid dans le cadre de la 11e journée de Liga à l'Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys ! Les Barcelonais de Xavi restent sur des victoires 1-0 contre Bilbao et 2-1 face au Shakhtar après un nul 2-2 à Greande. Les Madrilènes de Carlo Ancelotti, eux, viennent de dominer Braga 1-2 en C1 après un nul 1-1 à Séville en Liga. - Live comment icon Le Barça a remporté le dernier duel face au Real Madrid en Liga

sur le score de 2-1 au Camp Nou et s'était imposé 3-0 en amical durant l'été mais les Madrilènes avaient corrigé leurs rivaux 0-4 en Coupe du Roi au mois d'avril après un 0-1 à l'aller. Tout est donc ouvert au niveau des pronostics. - Live comment icon Le Real Madrid, lui, est donc 2e avec 25 points soit 3 de moins que Gérone qui a gagné 1-0 hier soir contre le Celta Vigo. Les Merengue affichent un bilan de 8 succès, 1 nul et 1 revers pour 21 buts inscrits et 7 concédés (meilleure défense). - Live comment icon Le Barça occupe la 3e place du classement de Liga avec 24 points soit 1 de moins que le Real Madrid et 4 de retard sur le leader Gérone. Invaincus, les Blaugrana totalisent 7 victoires et 3 nuls pour 22 buts marqués et 10 encaissés. Le président madrilène Florentino Perez n'a pas effecuté le déplacement à Barcelonaise pour protester contre un tweet jugé déplacé d'un dirigeant du Barça contre Vinicius. 🔴 BARCELONE - REAL MADRID LIVE / 🚨C'EST L'HEURE DU CLASICO! / 🔥MATCH POUR LA 1ERE PLACE!! / LIGA https://youtu.be/B1jUF4p7Lqo A lire aussi

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deenomilk · 4 years

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Orctober Week 3

Already!

22. Tashok (LDB, Skyrim)

23. Malacath (Orc icon, Elder Scrolls, stand alone post here)

24. Yorag (Skyrim, OC)

25 and 26. Yagha and Ghara (Skyrim, OC)

27. Yamal (Skyrim, OC)

28. Yaren (Skyrim, OC)

#it's a whole TES squad this time #tes #skyrim #elder scrolls #malacath #orcs #orsimer #orc #orctober #my art #oc: Tashok #oc: Yaren #oc: Yamal #oc: Yorag #oc: Yagha #oc: Ghara #whenever i need an orc name i just use Y and wing it #it's such a good orc letter y'all

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dragonrajafanfiction · 3 years

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The Yamal Mission

In the first book IV quest of Dragon Raja appears to take place immediately after Luminous is installed as the Student Union President. However, this is not the case in the novels.

In the game, right after you celebrate Luminous’s new job, you are called in for a mission from EVA that will send you on a mission with Johann on the “Luxury Cruise ship.”

However, in the novel, Johann’s mission takes place a full year after these two scenes!!! I’m not sure why they did this, your character in the game should have reflected a whole year’s worth of new dragonslaying experience. At this point, your character is not a freshman, but a student well into their second year.

It also doesn’t make sense that Johann is in charge of the mission when the School Board tends to prioritize Hybrid bloodline over experience. For example, in Book 2, Johann is reporting to Luminous in the Quest to find the King of Earth and Mountains even though Luminous is otherwise inferior in everyway. It makes no sense that on a lesser quest of investigation, he’s your supervisor.

I just wanted to clarify these things to anyone who is going to do these quests in case they become confusing later.

Anyway, below is the translation of the second half of the Story Quest for 118

72 degrees north latitude, Greenland Sea

Under the dark night, the big scarlet boat rushed through the broken ice, leaving a 20 meter wide blue-black waterway behind.

This place is well within the Arctic Circle, and it is in the dead of winter. Although the sea surface is not completely frozen, the floating ice is all over the sea surface. Only this monster-class ice breaker dared to continue to rush towards the North Pole at this time.

The YAMAL, the world’s largest icebreaker, belonged to Russia. Two heavy water nuclear reactors provided it with almost endless power. The thick armored bow can easily smash a 6 meter iceberg. Among the icebreakers in the world, except for a few military monsters who identities cannot be disclosed, only this ship has sailed to the North Pole.

The tragedy of the Titanic will never happen to the YAMAL. What is an iceberg when you can just ram into it? The crew of the YAMAL has always thought about the problem this way, which is why they can’t be hired by other polar cruise companies after they are retired... This group of people might end up driving an ordinary ship into an iceberg just out of habit.

“Hello! Hello! This is the YAMAL. We are sailing on he 72 degree North latitude line. Is there a dear friend nearby who can chat? I hope you’re an American with a sense of humor, ha! I met one German guy before who lived in Munich and he told a really cold joke. I didn’t get it until a week after I went ashore. Everyone thought I was crazy when I suddenly burst out laughing in the middle of a bar.”

A middle-aged Russian captain drank vodka straight from the bottle and yelled into the radio system, as if he were the host of an evening radio show.

The radio remained absolutely silent, without so much as static.

This was par for the course. In this season, there may be ten ships in the world that dared to sailed openly in the Arctic Ocean. At this moment, other ships are either docked at military ports or scattered in other corners of the Arctic Ocean and the most advanced long-wave radio can only call a few hundreds of kilometers out.

In other words, they sail in a dead end space where almost no one can reach. A crew who frequently runs this route can suffer depression if they’re not careful and the best medicine on board for this malady is alcohol.

The captain was just trying his luck after having a drink. If he happened to be able to call other polar ships, usually everyone would change voyage a little and go for a short period of time, staying close enough to each other to talk over the radio for an hour or two.

“Oh! I can’t find anyone to chat with tonight!” The captain sighed, “Then I’ll go to the casino to try my luck, Mr. Chief Officer, this ship will e handed over to you temporarily!”

He staggered out, completely unaware that the first mate entrusted with the task was drunk and had been lying on the steering wheel for half an hour.

The casino on board was magnificent. The warm air was wrapped in the rich smell of whiskey and high-end perfume. The Belarusian girl, standing 5′9″ and wearing high heels acted as the dealer. A waiter who can speak various languages enthusiastically advised the guests to experience the richness of Tibetan wine and hand-rolled cigars from Cuba. A source of enormous wealth has created a small Las Vegas in this lifeless dead-end space.

The YAMAL was originally planned to be used as a scientific research ship, and it assumed the strategic goal of the former Soviet Union to head towards the North Pole. However, after the disintegration of the Soviet Union, this strategic goal also fell into disuse. The hugely-built ship could not be left idle and was put to civilian use, transformed into a luxury gambling ship, cruising on the Arctic Ocean all year round.

The Arctic Ocean is the high seas, you can’t help but gamble. Plus, you can enjoy the polar scenery on the way. So even if the tickets are expensive, the ones for this “Christmas Journey” are sold out.

There are eleven floors on this ship. Six floors have been transformed into luxurious cabins. At the moment, these cabins are full of 1,200 tourists, plus a crew of almost 1,000 people and service personnel. This ship can be said to be a small city floating on the Arctic Ocean.

“Ladies and gentlemen, please look out from the porthole on the left. You will see a medium sized iceberg with a height of more than 25 meters. Anyone who knows ice bergs must know that only 1/10 of the volume of an iceberg will surface. The underwater part occupies 9/10. This means that the height of the entire iceberg is almost 250 meters, of which more than 200 re below the sea surface.”

The navigator’s voice echoed in the hall. “That ice berg is the giant remains of the ice sheet, and feel off the arctic Ice cap 32 years ago and is always floating in the nearby sea. In summer, it will move further north, and it winter, it will be close to the edge of the Arctic Circle. The crew affectionately calls it the “Mary Girl” but as you can see, after 32 years of melting, the once hugeg “mary Girl” has only 250 feet of ice left. This year maybe the last time that Mary Girl will accompany us on our ice sea journey. Goodbye, Mary Girl, we will miss you.”

The wall-like ice cliffs slid past the hull of the cliffs, showing a dazzling blue color The white water fowl stood on top of the Mary Girl, staring blankly at the red behemoth driving by. After that, it floats far away.

Few tourists actually went to see the last side of the Mary Girl. Sexy Belarusian girls, hot gambling games, and mellow wine, kept their eyes on the gaming table.

The captain woke up a bit from the wine, pace to the porthole, looked out and let out a faint puff of smoke.

“Is it like seeing off an old friend?” A very young voice spoke next to him, but it was low with an iceberg-like feel.

The captain raised his head and was surprised to find that there was a young man in a black suit standing beside him, with black hair and an extremely clear face, carrying an elegant suitcase in his hand and a long black bag on his shoulders. He should be Chinese, but his accent is standard American English. The captain had been standing by the porthole for five minutes but didn’t notice when the young man approached him.

“It is, isn’t it? Always sailing in such lonely waters, we give each iconic iceberg a girl’s name in our hearts. Mary is like a bright girl in white, waiting for us in this sea forever. Seeing her, we don’t need to look at the theodolite to know which area of the sea we’re sailing in.” The captain emotionally explained. “So what’s your name?”

“Chu. Chu Zihang.”

“is there anything I can do for you? Mr. Chu.”

“I want to see the captain.”

“Then you are looking for the right person!” The captain smiled and straightened his captain’s hat. “The name’s Sasha Rebarko, Captain of the Yamal. Ready to serve you!”

“No. I don’t want to se you. I want to see the real captain.” Chu Zihang said lightly.

The captain was stunned, a sharp light flashing in his pupils. But it was fleeting.

“How can there be two captains on a ship?” He shrugged. “Only when I am sick and unable to perform the duties of captain will the chief officer take over. As as you can see, I’m as strong as an ox!”

“Your real name is not Sasha Rebarko, but Alexander Rebarko. You were a major of the Alpha Special Forces of the Russian Federal Security Service. After retiring in 2001, you were hired by the real captain. The ship’s technology is actually very rudimentary. This ship is usually managed by the chief mate, but you are a proficient marksman, skilled in unarmed combat, and practiced in using almost all military equipment. So You’re responsible for the security of the ship.”

“You have been married once, now divorced. Your parents live in St. Petersburg. You have a 16-year old sister.” Chu Zihang’s one was steady like this big ship, but the captain’s heartbeat was as steep and tortuous as the icebergs outside.

He subconsciously bent his knees slightly and leaned forward and his hands drew into his sleeves. This was an attempt to grasp the dagger hidden inside, but he felt empty.

This kind of “muscle memory” came from being trained to be very skillful with a knife. Major Alexaner Rebarko, when he was wearing the Alpha Force uniform, he would have had a dagger in his sleeve at all times.

But he hasn’t used the name Alexander in more than ten years. In order to sever his relationship with the past, he took great pains to change. He changed his address, phone number, broke off contacts with old friends and hired hackers to break into Alpha Forces serves to delete all his files. He performed a bit of facial surgery... Since then it was like Alpha Elite Major Alexander Rebarko had never existed in this world and was replaced by senior captain Sasha Rebarko.

Now the past buried by his own hands has been completely restored in the cold and plain narration of this young man, as if he were some sort of guardian angel that had seen his whole like with his own eyes.

Anyone, as long as he has existed in this world, will always leave countless marks, which can not be easily modified.” Chu Zihang finally said. “As long as the Cassell Academy is interested in anyone, they can always be investigated and found out.”

The people around them flowed like water around rocks.

After a long silence, Sasha’s body relaxed from being tight as a bow. He looked at Chu Zihang again. “Cassell Academy?”

Of course, they can’t really use force in such a public space. The offensive posture was just Sasha’s stress response.

Chu Zihang flipped the collar of his suit and showed Sasha the silver coat of arms pinned inside it. On the coat of arms was a huge tree with lush branches on one half and completely withered on the other half.

“I’ve never heard of it, and never seen that emblem.” Sasha shook his head.

“I think the captain may recognize this emblem. I’m referring to the real captain.”

“What do you want?”

“I just want to meet the captain. I know there is a hidden rule on this boat. The person who gambles the most is eligible to go up to see the captain.” Chu Zihang raised the suitcase in his hands. “I prepared funds before I arrived here.”

Sahsa glanced at the sturdy suitcase. The suitcase seemed to be right. High gamblers liked to carry such suitcases, full of two million dollars in cash. Two million dollars is not a lot. Some gamblers have subordinates to help carry a dozen or so cash boxes in and out. But if he just wants to meet the captain, two million should be fine.

“Okay,” Sasha shrugged. “It’s okay to take you to the captain, but I must first wish you good luck.”

“Wish me luck?”

The captain doesn’t like to see outsiders very much. If he sees an outsider and doesn’t like him, that guy will be brainwashed. Brainwashed people end up a little messed up if it doesn’t go right.” Sasha said. “I don’t want you to be so unlucky.”

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Arctic vs. Antarctic: how to pick your polar adventure

If you’ve ever dreamt about visiting one of the polar regions, use our guide to picking your Polar adventure: Arctic vs. Antarctic.

The North and South Poles were only “conquered” in relatively recent history. The South Pole was first set foot upon in 1911 by the Norwegian Roald Amundsen after his epic race with the ill-fated Scott. The conquest of the North Pole is a little murkier thanks to its location in the middle of the Arctic Ocean amid waters that are almost permanently covered with permanently shifting sea ice.

It’s possible that Frederick Cook was the first to reach the North Pole in 1908, or perhaps it was Robert Peary in 1911 or maybe Richard E. Byrd who was the first to fly over it in 1926… But it wasn’t until Roald Amundsen’s definitive flight over the Pole on 12th May 1926 that the first consistent, verified and scientifically convincing attainment of the North Pole was recorded.

Polar exploration has long sparked the public’s imagination and in recent years, travellers’ appetite for adventure means there is even more on offer than ever before.

Kia and I both dream of taking trips to the Polar circles – it’s just that we’re not sure when and where to go. (Well, that and the lack of funds…)

If you’ve ever dreamt about visiting one of these faraway destinations, use our guide to picking your Polar adventure: Arctic vs. Antarctic.

Temperature

Whether you head north or south you’re going to be cold. Very cold. However, it’s useful to know that unlike the rest of the planet, the south is colder than the north.

Broadly speaking, the Arctic region will experience temperatures between -43 and +5°C (-45 and 41°F) with coastal areas (which is where tourists are most likely to be) reaching +10°C (50°F) in the summer months. Average July temperatures range from about -10 to +10°C (14 to 50°F) with some inner land areas occasionally exceeding 30°C (86°F) in summer!

The Antarctic is a different story. It is the coldest continent on Earth. In 1983, researchers at the Soviet Antarctic station recorded the lowest natural temperature ever at ground level of -89.2°C (-128.6°F). Temperatures in Antarctica regularly reach -80°C (-112°F) in the interior in winter and between 5°C (41°F) and 15°C (59°F) near the coast in summer.

The Antarctic is considerably colder than the Arctic.

When to go

Winters and summers in the Polar regions are easier to define than in most destinations.

Put simply, the Arctic is closed from October to March thanks to much of the region being icebound, meaning ships cannot pass. The six-month darkness of the Polar night engulfs the region making sightseeing a rather tedious affair. Likewise, the Antarctic is closed from April to October due to freezing temperatures, the Polar night and pack ice reaching up to 1,000km beyond the edge of the continent.

Outside these timeframes, it largely depends on what you want to see and do and where exactly you want to go. For example, if you’re only interested in the bragging rights that come with crossing the Arctic Circle then this can be done year round in Scandinavia without leaving mainland Europe. At the other end of the world you’ll have to wait for the pack ice to break up between January and March to have a shot at crossing the Antarctic Circle.

The table below gives an idea of the best time to visit depending on your interests.

Best time for… Arctic Antarctic Largest icebergs Apr-Jun Nov-Jan Whales Apr-Sep Dec-Apr Humpback whales Apr-Jul – Narwhals Apr-Sep – Bird life Apr-Sep Dec-Mar Penguins – Dec-Feb Northwest passage accessible Jun-Aug – Ross Sea accessible – Jan-Feb Arctic circle crossing Year-round – Antarctic circle crossing – Jan-Mar North Pole expedition Feb-Apr – South Pole expedition – Nov-Jan Svalbard Jun-Aug – Greenland Apr-Sep – Falklands – Oct-Feb South Georgia – Oct-Jan Aurora watching Jan-Mar Mar-Sep

WildlifE

Even though the two Polar regions share many similar traits, they differ greatly in wildlife with a much wider range found in the north. This is because much of the landmass in the north is attached to continents that stretch further south while the Antarctic is completely isolated. This means the Arctic homes far more terrestrial mammals.

On land in the north you’ll find muskox, reindeer, caribou, foxes, hares, wolves, lemmings and of course, the polar bear. Marine mammals include seals, walruses, and several species of whale: humpback whales, baleen whales, narwhals, killer whales (orcas) and belugas.

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In the south it’s slim pickings on land. The flightless midge, Belgica antarctica, is just 6mm (0.25in) in size and is the largest purely terrestrial animal in Antarctica. In the water there’s more to see with several species of penguin including Emperor, Adélie, Rockhopper, King, Chinstrap and Gentoo penguins all living in the Antarctic peninsular. Additionally, there are blue whales, killer whales, colossal squids and fur seals.

ADVENTURE

If you want to see how you measure up against the great Polar explorers of the past then here are a few of the best options available.

COMFORT

It’s unfair to call those unmoved by the above unadventurous – surely travelling to the Polar Regions is adventurous by definition. However, if you would prefer a little more comfort then there are plenty of cruise and activity holidays available which won’t leave your loved ones biting their nails until your safe return.

I have my eyes on the Arctic Circle Trail in Greenland as well as a trip to Tromsø in Norway to see the northern lights after our failed attempt to catch them in Iceland several years ago. Quark Expeditions offer a range of cruise-based holidays in the Polar regions.

The Arctic Circle Trail follows a course through an area known as the “land of one hundred lakes” (Image: Visit Greenland, Limited Commercial License)

Northern vs. Southern lights

One of the most stunning natural phenomena in the world are the Aurora Borealis and Aurora Australis, more commonly known as the Northern and Southern Lights. Unless you’re a Norwegian astronomer there really is little difference between the northern lights and the Southern Lights other than geographical location. They both take place over the Polar regions and are basically the same phenomenon.

That said, the northern lights are far more accessible. They can be viewed from Iceland, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Scotland, Russia, Greenland, Canada and Alaska. Outside of continental Antarctica, the Southern Lights can only be seen from southernmost New Zealand, Argentina and Australia.

Culture

Arctic nations include Canada, Greenland (a territory of Denmark), Russia, United States (Alaska), Iceland, Norway, Sweden, and Finland. Within these nations, around four million people live within the Arctic Circle. Unlike the Antarctic, the Arctic has an indigenous population stretching back thousands of years.

The Inuit people inhabit the Arctic regions of Greenland, Canada, and Alaska, while other Circumpolar North indigenous peoples include the Buryat, Chukchi, Evenks, Inupiat, Khanty, Koryaks, Nenets, Sami, Yukaghir and Yupik. There are also industrialised cities within the Arctic Circle. The four largest communities within are in Russia and Norway: Murmansk (population 307,257), Norilsk (175,365), Tromsø (71,590) and Vorkuta (70,548).

Nenet woman among reindeer, Yamal Peninsula in Siberia © Lexi Novitske

In the Antarctic, there is no indigenous population. There are zero permanent inhabitants but there are numerous research stations set up across the continent. In the summer as many as 5,000 people reside in the Antarctic but this drops to around 1,000 in the winter. You won’t be visiting any craft markets here!

Cost

Simply put, Polar travel is expensive. You will be visiting the most inhospitable regions on the planet where life is hard. The Arctic Circle is far more popular due to its accessibility and the fact that travel is cheaper there. That said, some of the most expensive countries in the world (Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia) are located along and within the Arctic Circle, making even the cheapest Polar weekend break an expensive affair.

The Antarctic is without doubt more expensive than its northern sibling. It is further away from transport hubs, there is no permanent accommodation available and life is simply harder further south. For an easy comparison of costs, a 13-day Arctic cruise and flight with Quark costs $7,995. In comparison, a similar 10-day Antarctic cruise and flight will set you back $11,595 – considerably more for considerably less.

Likewise, at the expedition end of the scale, Adventure Consultants’ North Pole – Ski the Last Degree trip (15-19 days) starts at $42,000 while the equivalent South Pole – Ski the Last Degree trip (15 days) costs $62,500.

Arctic vs. Antarctic

Polar travel like most forms of travel is on the rise. It is almost impossible to verify how many people visit the Arctic but during the 2009-2010 tourist season, over 37,000 people visited Antarctica – twice the estimated 14,000 that visited in the 1999-2000 season 10 years before. One assumes that this figure will continue to double every 10 years although I doubt (and hope) the Antarctic or the harder-to-reach areas of the Arctic will ever compete with Thailand or other popular destinations.

For me, the Antarctic is the very definition of adventure. The very mention of its name evokes tales of against-the-odds survival and iconic names such as Amundsen, Shackleton and Scott. I dream of completing the seven summits which means that one day I will have to climb Vinson Massif in Antarctica – an ambition I look forward to with both boyish enthusiasm and wary trepidation.

The South Pole was first set foot upon in 1911 by the Norwegion Roald Amundsen

Kia and I were in Tierra del Fuego last year but at the wrong time for a trip to Earth’s southernmost continent. We will just have to go back one day…

Maybe it’s because we live in Europe but the Arctic simply doesn’t have the same allure as the Antarctic. Sure, we want to visit Greenland, trek the Arctic Circle Trail, see the northern lights and cross the Arctic Circle. But considering many of these are just a (relatively) short plane ride away, it just doesn’t have the same end-of-the-Earth appeal.

For me, the Antarctic still grabs all the headlines.

G Adventures are the largest small-group adventure travel company in the world with over 650 small group adventures to choose from and offer a range of Antarctica cruises.

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Siberia is the final frontier. It exists like a phantom in my consciousness, a mythical concept rather than an actual place. It is white and gauzy and indistinct, an allegory for bleak skies flecked with sleet and grasslands painted with frost. It is a mystery that inches towards me with every click of the train's wheels.

I've placed my books in a neat stack on the table beside my bunk in compartment No.11: Dostoyevsky, Solzhenitsyn; notebooks in which to record my impressions of the journey that lies ahead. The train pulls out of St Petersburg's Ladozhskaya Station and gains swift momentum so that soon it has shaken off the city's brutalist apartment blocks and low-slung powerlines and is barrelling through copses of fir trees.

Dostoyevsky made this journey, too; but where he was shackled and hauled upon a sled to a prison camp in Siberia's Omsk, I'm travelling unregulated by second-class sleeper train to the remote outpost of Salekhard. From there I will venture northwards to the Yamal Peninsula to a camp as unfettered as Dostoyevsky's was incarcerating: a huddle of chums (tents) casually erected on the tundra by one of the world's last remaining traditional cultures, the indigenous Nenets reindeer herders.

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Lake Kucherlinskoe in the Altai mountains. Photo: Alamy

Our provodnitsa (carriage attendant) delivers fresh linen to our compartment, and my three cabin-mates and I arrange ourselves as comfortably as we can within the confines of this narrow, double-bunked space. Our food supplies are tucked beneath the table – instant noodles and mashed potatoes that we prepare with hot water from the samovar at the far end of the carriage; condensed milk with which to sweeten our coffee.

Outside, scenes blur one into the other, bright-painted houses framed by pink fireweed, rusted rooftops protruding from waves of sky-high grass, rotting boats washed upon a river's shore. The train's soporific rhythm is broken occasionally for stops at stations marooned upon the emptiness. Hawkers await us; we buy fresh bread and buckets of berries and forest mushrooms from their stalls.

After sunset, in the rudimentary dining car, locals greet us in a hard-edged flourish. An immaculately dressed miner is getting smashed on Baltica beer. A muscular scrap metal dealer is guzzling broiled chicken. A teary-eyed Estonian is reminiscing about the years he spent working in Siberia during the Cold War; this will be his first visit there in 34 years.

VELIKIY USTYUG TO SALEKHARD

It's taken 22 hours to get here, and we've made but the tiniest of incursions into Russia's eternal heartland. The Estonian was sleeping when we disembarked this morning, but he'd placed a gift in our compartment: a bottle of Estonian liqueur wrapped in a page torn from a soft porn magazine.

The suffocating snows have melted to reveal a vista of cow bream and wildflowers. They lap at the estuaries converging at the ancient fortress town of Velikiy Ustyug, waterways once thick with explorers and traders. By the 1990s they'd thickened with silt, and when the rains came the rivers spilled into houses and across farmland. The Sukhona River has been dredged since, says local guide Lyubov Nalyotova.

"It looks calm, but it has changed its bed many times," she says, gazing across its silken surface towards a copper-domed monastery on the opposite bank. "It is perfidious."

The town escaped an altogether more disquieting perfidy during the communist era, when the destruction of religious and cultural icons stopped just short of its perimeters. The railway doesn't reach Velikiy Ustyug (we journey there by road), and so structures that might otherwise have been razed – shiny-domed cathedrals, flaking belltowers – rise exultant from their ragtag foundations.

TRAVELLING THE DEATH ROAD

So much of Russia's history is contained in the railway line that stretches from nearby Kotlas – where we reboard the train – to Salekhard. Prisoners flocked to the Gulag Archipelago of which Solzhenitsyn writes; indeed, they laid the very rails on which we now turn. The clacking wheels evoke more recent memories for our Intrepid guide, Ksenia Martynova, who was a baby when communism fell. Her parents lost their jobs overnight; her mother would journey by train to Moscow and St Petersburg to buy goods to trade back home in the Ural Mountains.

"People literally were hiding money in their underwear," she says. "We had no food, just bread and milk, that's all."

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Tarko-sale town, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. Photo: Alamy

As if to corroborate this tale of capitalist paucity, we pass a defunct flour mill and sagging houses adrift in an ocean of blooming Sally. Heather-cloaked plains sail across our windows; the Urals arise in gentle waves. Day turns slowly into night.

In the morning we pull into the town of Chum, the original starting point for Stalin's doomed transpolar railway. He intended for it to jump the River Ob and stretch all the way to the Chukotka Peninsula in Russia's Far East. But the line beyond Salekhard putrefied into marshland, taking the lives of innumerable men with it.

The tracks peter out at Labytnangi, and we take a ferry across the River Ob to Salekhard, the only city in the world that sits directly on the Arctic Circle. Its 15th-century Cossack history is glossed over with shiny buildings – dividends from the vast gas reserves mined on the Yamal Peninsula.

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ABOVE THE 66TH PARALLEL

It takes 10 hours to navigate the 170 kilometres that lie between Salekhard and our first night's camp in the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. Dirt roads buckle into corrugated tracks; tracks slide into rivers and re-emerge on the other side boggy and mud-slicked; mud trails sink into the tundra until there remains no trace of them at all.

The Siberia of my imagination – white, gauzy, indistinct – morphs into an emerald wilderness quivering with sedge and lit by a watery sun. Not even the giant-tyred Trekol swamp buggies and Cold War-era Russian tanks in which we travel can cushion our bones against this jarring, untamed landscape.

The tanks' engines scream with exertion, their tread gouges caterpillar tracks into the pulpous earth. Stunted firs – the last of the transitional forest – disrupt the steppe. The snow that engulfs this region for much of the year has left behind traces of its essence: glassy lakes and rivers coiling dreamily across the tundra. Finally, as the sun is about to set, we see the spires of a Russian Orthodox Church emerging from the horizon.

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Ekaterina Yaptik, a Nenets herder woman, selecting draught reindeer from a corral. Photo: Alamy

This is the Land of Hope, a permanent settlement where Nenets children attend a school for nomads. The students have returned to their families' camps for the summer – a season, in Siberia, of "intolerable closeness", as Dostoyevsky described it. His evocation rings true, for though the skies are threatening rain and the stoves have been lit inside our chums, the mosquitoes are a plague unleashed by summer's damp embrace. They are beasts, speckling our clothes and taking monstrous bites right through them.

In search of nomads We wake next morning to the sound of rain spattering the chum. Breakfast is fish soup and belyashi, doughy bread rolls stuffed with pork. Everyone goes back for seconds.

"If you want to know what it's like to live on the tundra, there is only one thing to do," says one of our drivers as we place offerings of coins upon a crop of sacred rocks. "Go there."

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Hours of travel stretch ahead of us still, interminable expanses of pasturage rising and falling in steep folds, yielding beneath the Trekol's mighty tyres and the tanks' metallic tracks. And then, finally, they appear, four chums standing lonely on the plain. A river curls around the campsite; hills encircle it. Dogs raise their muzzles to our unfamiliar scent. A tent flap opens, and a Nenets woman emerges from the gloom.

REACHING THE END OF THE WORLD

Our quest has ended at the "end of land", a permafrost peninsula stretching for around 700 kilometres into the Arctic Ocean. These are the ancient roaming grounds of the Nenets, Russia's indigenous reindeer herders. They've somehow preserved their nomadic lifestyle in the shadow of modernity: gas mining, the lure of cities, climate change. In summer they drift northwards, and as the weather cools they move south. In recent years, warmer temperatures have delayed their winter trek across the usually frozen River Ob.

Two families live in this temporary camp, says Anna Nerkagi, the woman who has greeted us; 10 people in all. The men are off with the reindeer herd and they will return before dark. She leads us into our chum, a surprisingly uncramped space enclosed in swathes of canvas and felt that will be replaced with reindeer pelts once winter sets in. A wood stove is encircled by bedding: furs and quilts and pillows laid out directly upon the tundra.

LAST OF THE REINDEER HERDERS

Wild reindeer have roamed this peninsula for eons, following ancient seasonal migratory routes in search of food. In recent centuries they've been domesticated by the Nenets, corralled into herds up to 10,000 strong; they supply them with their most urgent needs: food from their flesh, clothing from their skins, tools from their bones.

We can tell that they are approaching now, for the spongy earth vibrates beneath our feet. We emerge from the chum to see the dark mass of a herd spilling over the riverbank. Men on sleds and Samoyed dogs urge them on. They swarm up onto the plain, their dew claws clicking like castanets. Their coats are damp with sweat, their antlers clouded in haloes of fur.

Night descends, a corona of half-dark hovering upon the horizon. We eat salted salmon and pike, boiled cabbage and tomatoes. Fatigued beyond reasoning, we fall into a deep and curative sleep.

DEATH ON THE TUNDRA

It's raining softly next morning. The Nenets men walk out onto the tundra and swing their lassos into the sky. The reindeer herd erupts, a frenzied dance of dark bodies and shining eyes and curlicue antlers slicing the air.

A female is separated from the herd. A Nenets sits with the frightened animal, giving thanks for her sacrifice. The men loop a rope around her neck, and pull tightly on either end until she drops, strangled, to the ground. Her neck is sliced open and the artery tied so that blood – a precious resource in the Arctic – can collect in her abdominal cavity.

The feasting begins at once. Salt is poured into the bloody hollow, slivers of raw liver dipped into it. I sweep a piece of barely dead flesh through the salted pool and raise it to my lips. It is fresh and warm and profound, the most honest meat I have ever tasted.

That night's dinner is reindeer stew and reindeer broth, eaten around a low table in Nerkagi's chum. The carcass will feed these families for three months. No part of it seems to have been wasted: not the skin, peeled off in a single pelt; not the innards, fed to the dogs; not the coarse hair of the forehead, affixed as traction to the soles of shoes.

Only the muscles of the spine and neck are discarded, lest their consumption weaken the herd; and the tip of the tongue, which is thrown into the fire to prevent the spread of rumours.

THE LONG JOURNEY HOME

It takes 14 hours to return to Salekhard. We travel by tank, Trekol and – when the river proves too high to navigate – boat. A group of Russian canoeists welcomes us into their camp and feeds us lard and pate, tea and homemade vodka.

We offer, in hospitable turn, a lift to a Nenets boy making the day-long trek back to his family's chum.

He tells us about his parents' reindeer herd, how winters of -50C are preferable to the mosquitoes that summer brings with it. We wave him goodbye somewhere in the middle of nowhere, and watch as he dissolves into a pinprick on the horizon.

Long after midnight, somewhere above the 66th parallel, we see green smudges in the sky. It is the aurora borealis, crowning the infinite landscape over which we have laboured, probing it with tentacles of light, mocking the Siberia I've conjured in my dark and desolate imagination.

Catherine Marshall was a guest of Intrepid.

FIVE MORE THINGS TO DO IN SIBERIA

TAKE THE TRANS-SIBERIAN EXPRESS

Conjuring romance and adventure, this epic rail journey between Moscow in the west and Vladivostok in Russia's Far East extends for more than 9000 kilometres across a diverse landscape – forests, mountains, rivers, plains – and no fewer than eight time-zones. Though popular with tourists, its chief purpose is the transport of domestic passengers and cargo, giving travellers a unique insight into the Siberian way of life.

EXPLORE LAKE BAIKAL

Perhaps Siberia's most famous landmark, this UNESCO World Heritage site is the world's deepest lake and its largest freshwater lake, a veritable inland sea spreading across a rift valley near the border with Mongolia. It is framed by snowy peaks and Siberian taiga forests, and filled with a profusion of endemic aquatic species, including seals. Activities include hiking, swimming and – if you're visiting during winter – hover-crafting and ice-biking.

SKI IN SHEREGESH

This remote iron-mining settlement in southern Siberia's alpine region has become one of Russia's most popular ski resorts since slopes were built here in 1981. Cold, dry winters ensure season-long dumps of champagne powder snow, turning Sheregesh into a skiers' paradise. Yeti-hunters have also started streaming in since the footprint of the Siberian Bigfoot was allegedly discovered in a nearby cave.

TREK IN THE ALTAI MOUNTAINS

Located at the junction of Siberia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan and China, the Altai Republic – a federal subject of Russia – is a remote, forested area popular among climbers, trekkers and rafters. Siberia's highest peak, Mt Belukha, is located here, and the region provides habitat for the endangered snow leopard and Siberian mountain goats. A fledgling eco-tourism industry in the region is being nurtured by conservation bodies.

TAKE A RIVER CRUISE TO THE ARCTIC CIRCLE

The River Lena – one of the longest in the world – winds through ever-changing landscapes from the central-Siberian city of Yakutsk all the way to Arctic Circle, where it empties into the ocean via a network of granite-walled estuaries. Here, nomadic reindeer herders still live a traditional way of life and in summer the sun doesn't set, earning it the nickname "land of the midnight sun".

SURVIVING SIBERIA

HOT AND COLD

The temperatures here vary wildly, from a deathly cold -60C in winter to a surprisingly balmy +30C in summer. For much of the year, multiple layers of thermal clothing are essential. Jackets should cover the legs and hats, gloves (with inners) and tube scarves should be worn to protect the extremities from frostbite. It's best to consult a specialist cold-weather clothing supplier when kitting yourself out. During the short summer months, cool, comfortable clothing can be worn in the cities, but full coverage in lightweight clothing is recommended in areas inundated with insects. Always take along a warm jacket – despite the comparatively high summer temperatures, the evenings can be cold.

INSECTS

First-time visitors to Siberia will be shocked to discover that the region's brief summers bring with them a veritable deluge of insects. Ticks are common, but the most annoying pest is the tundra mosquito, which is much larger than regular mozzies and congregates around people's faces and bodies in great, biting swarms. They're best avoided by wearing mozzie nets, waterproof pants and jackets and insect repellent. Check your body and clothing for ticks after walking though bushy areas.

FOOD

If you're visiting in winter, be prepared to eat. And eat. The Siberian climate cannot be endured by those who don't possess a healthy appetite (and a strong immune system – for permanent residents at any rate). Energy is gobbled up by the intense cold, and vegetarians who move here often find they can't function adequately without eating meat. The good news is that regional specialities are delicious and plentiful – and there's always condensed milk to sweeten coffee and tea and provide a sugar hit. Menu options for vegetarians are limited to soups, eggs, cheese, fruit and vegetables, bread and yoghurt. Vegans and those on gluten-free diets will find travel in this region challenging, although suitable supplies are usually available in supermarkets.

ALCOHOL

Siberia is renowned for its good vodka – and, on a darker note, its high rates of alcoholism. It is common for locals to strike up conversation with foreign travellers (most often in Russian) and to share their food and drink with them. While this is part of the charm of train travel across Siberia, the alcohol offered is sometimes fake, and the locals' tolerance is often much higher than one's own. For this reason, travellers should take care not to partake in, or encourage, heavy drinking when engaging with locals. Moreover, drunken behaviour can attract fines or removal from the train without warning.

TRANSPORT

Siberia's interminable girth and relative lack of development necessitate long, and sometimes less-than-comfortable journeys. This is not the destination for travellers who depend on five-star comfort: train carriages are compact and might have to be shared with strangers; journeys along back roads and across tundra can be bumpy and downright rough. But for the type of traveller attracted to a place like Siberia, it's exactly what adventure is made of.

TRIP NOTES

traveller.com.au/russia

FLY

Qatar Airways flies daily from Sydney and Melbourne to Doha, and daily from Canberra to Doha via Sydney, with connections from Doha to St Petersburg and Moscow. See qatarairways.com

TOUR

Intrepid's 15-day Footsteps of the Reindeer Herders expedition departs on July 26 and August 9, 2018 and starts from $4095 per person, including four nights on the trans-polar railway, hotel accommodation, camping with the Nenets on the Yamal Peninsula and a variety of city and rural excursions. See intrepidtravel.com/au

SAFETY

The recent expulsion of Russian diplomats from Australia and other western countries might result in anti-Western sentiment or harassment of Australians travelling in Russia. While there have been no reports thus far of Australians experiencing such difficulties, they are advised to keep an eye out for security and political warnings. As always, remain vigilant, avoid protests and demonstrations and avoid commenting publicly on political developments. Travellers are advised, as before, to exercise a high degree of caution and to avoid certain areas. See smartraveller.gov.au

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Cryptid of the Day: Living Mammoth

Description: This iconic animal died off around 4,000 years ago, but some have reported modern encounters with these giants. In 1918 (published 1946), in Russia’s Yamal-Nenets, a hunter found footprints measuring 27 inches wide and 20 inches long, separated by a 13 foot stride. He followed the tracks until he saw a mammoth with its young.

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Arctic vs. Antarctic: how to pick your polar adventure

If you’ve ever dreamt about visiting one of the polar regions, use our guide to picking your Polar adventure: Arctic vs. Antarctic.

Polar exploration has long sparked the public’s imagination and in recent years, travellers’ appetite for adventure means there is even more on offer than ever before.

Kia and I both dream of taking trips to the Polar circles – it’s just that we’re not sure when and where to go. (Well, that and the lack of funds…)

If you’ve ever dreamt about visiting one of these faraway destinations, use our guide to picking your Polar adventure: Arctic vs. Antarctic.

Temperature

Whether you head north or south you’re going to be cold. Very cold. However, it’s useful to know that unlike the rest of the planet, the south is colder than the north.

The Antarctic is considerably colder than the Arctic.

When to go

Winters and summers in the Polar regions are easier to define than in most destinations.

The table below gives an idea of the best time to visit depending on your interests.

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ADVENTURE

If you want to see how you measure up against the great Polar explorers of the past then here are a few of the best options available.

COMFORT

The Arctic Circle Trail follows a course through an area known as the “land of one hundred lakes” (Image: Visit Greenland, Limited Commercial License)

Northern vs. Southern lights

Culture

Cost

Arctic vs. Antarctic

The South Pole was first set foot upon in 1911 by the Norwegion Roald Amundsen

Kia and I were in Tierra del Fuego last year but at the wrong time for a trip to Earth’s southernmost continent. We will just have to go back one day…

For me, the Antarctic still grabs all the headlines.

G Adventures are the largest small-group adventure travel company in the world with over 650 small group adventures to choose from and offer a range of Antarctica cruises.

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topfygad · 5 years

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Arctic vs. Antarctic: how to pick your polar adventure

If you’ve ever dreamt about visiting one of the polar regions, use our guide to picking your Polar adventure: Arctic vs. Antarctic.

Polar exploration has long sparked the public’s imagination and in recent years, travellers’ appetite for adventure means there is even more on offer than ever before.

Kia and I both dream of taking trips to the Polar circles – it’s just that we’re not sure when and where to go. (Well, that and the lack of funds…)

If you’ve ever dreamt about visiting one of these faraway destinations, use our guide to picking your Polar adventure: Arctic vs. Antarctic.

Temperature

Whether you head north or south you’re going to be cold. Very cold. However, it’s useful to know that unlike the rest of the planet, the south is colder than the north.

The Antarctic is considerably colder than the Arctic.

When to go

Winters and summers in the Polar regions are easier to define than in most destinations.

The table below gives an idea of the best time to visit depending on your interests.

WildlifE

youtube

ADVENTURE

If you want to see how you measure up against the great Polar explorers of the past then here are a few of the best options available.

COMFORT

The Arctic Circle Trail follows a course through an area known as the “land of one hundred lakes” (Image: Visit Greenland, Limited Commercial License)

Northern vs. Southern lights

Culture

Cost

Arctic vs. Antarctic

The South Pole was first set foot upon in 1911 by the Norwegion Roald Amundsen

Kia and I were in Tierra del Fuego last year but at the wrong time for a trip to Earth’s southernmost continent. We will just have to go back one day…

For me, the Antarctic still grabs all the headlines.

G Adventures are the largest small-group adventure travel company in the world with over 650 small group adventures to choose from and offer a range of Antarctica cruises.

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