Russia’s infamous Road Of Bones, from Yakutsk to Magadan, beckoned. The amazing 90 days to arrive at that point were another story altogether. For Mick McDonald and the Compass Expeditions group, a new, intense story was about to unfold.
Leaving the Yakutian capital Yakutsk, one of the worlds’ most remote cities, 12 riders slid down the sandy embankment that was the loading ramp for the ferry, a worn-out rustbucket that provided the only link between the east and west banks of the Lena, one of Russia’s largest rivers.