We’ve traveled 60 kilometers on our first day of the expedition, meeting our daily quotient. If we keep this up, we’ll be able to traverse Lake Baikal in record time. Our day started before dark, when we pushed through deep snow, but once we got onto the ice, we hit it running–even with 110-pound sleds.
–Kevin Vallely and Ray Zahab
In March 2010, and will embark on the . They will run 65 to 70 kilometers per day across the frozen surface of ,which is 636 kilometers long–carrying all the food and gear for theentire trip. They’d like to finish in 10 to 12 days, which would be aworld record, according to Vallely. Why go through such trouble? Toraise awareness and funding for clean drinking water projects aroundthe world and inspire students through the . This is the fourth in a series of their dispatches forϳԹ Online.