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Dream Trip: Explore Kamchatka, Russia
Ultimate Adventure Bucket List: Kite Skier Sarah McNair-Landry's dream trip is to kite ski the Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia. See all our Adventure Bucket List trips.
The 140,000 square miles of the Kamchatka Peninsula might as well be the edge of the Earth. Jutting into the Pacific Ocean and the Bering Sea, it’s covered with mountains that top 15,000 feet, 22 active volcanoes, dense forests, alpine tundra, rivers simmering with salmon, a preponderance of grizzly bears, and an utter dearth of human beings.
But the wild peninsula piqued Sarah McNair-Landry’s interest simply with its sheer lack of kite-tangling power lines and towns. “I’d love to do a crossing of the Kamchatka Peninsula kite skiing,” says McNair-Landry, who has it on her short list of expedition destinations. “In my mind, it’s very wild, not many people go there, lots of bears, lots of volcanoes, cold. It would be a beautiful place to travel and to visit.”
Next: See Sarah McNair-Landry's Must-Do Trip: Polar Survival Course on Baffin Island, Canada
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Cold-weather queen Sarah McNair-Landry has skied unsupported to the South Pole—the youngest person to do so—kite skied 1,429 miles across Greenland, and kite skied more than 1,800 miles across the Northwest Passage.
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