Adventures in the frozen wilderness: a Hong Kong man´s trek across icy Lake Baikal gives ...
(WorldNews Environment)

Waking up trembling in the freezing dark, Anson Lui Ching-fan notices a hole in his sleeping bag, out of which down feathers are escaping, fluttering like snowflakes in his tent he shares with three fellow explorers.It is Lui’s fourth night on the icebound Lake Baikal, where in February temperatures drop to below minus 40 degrees Celsius. Hastily shuffling into all the layers of clothes he has to hand, the 30-year-old adventurer can’t help but think: “I don’t want to die here.�“I stay awake the… ......