On March 2, over a hundred brave runners put on their fluffiest socks and thickest gloves to take part in the annual Baikal Ice Marathon.
The event is held to raise funds to help keep the world’s deepest fresh water lake clean and free of pollution.
The Moscow Times: Hardy runners race for glory on Russia’s lake Baikal
A handout picture taken on September 23, 2017 and provided by Oleg Timoshkin, biologist at the Russian Academy of Sciences' Limnological Institute in Irkutsk, shows the shoreline of Lake Baikal covered by rotting Spirogyra algae. - Lake Baikal is undergoing its gravest crisis in recent history, experts say, as the government bans the catching of a signature fish that has lived in the world's deepest lake for centuries but is now under threat.
