March 30 at 6:30 p.m., an external lecture on the mysterious and hard-to-access Plateau Putorana will be held by the Russian Geographical Society in Moscow Zaryadye Park.
The Putorana Plateau is a mountainous area at the northwestern edge of the Central Siberian Plateau. It covers some 250 thousand km2. Its surface is covered with basalt lava flows often referred to as Siberian traps. It is the world's second largest trap plateau after the Deccan traps in India. Putorana Plateau is called a district of ten thousand lakes and thousands of waterfalls. By the number of waterfalls, it holds the first rank in Russia. The Putorana State Nature Reserve is located on this territory, and it is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Dmitry Alyoshkin, a traveler and trainer on survival in extreme situations, a member of the Russian Geographical Society, will lecture. The researcher has more than once headed tourist trips and expeditions to the Putorana Plateau and other understudied places of this country. In August 2017, the expedition of Dmitry Aleshkin crossed the central part of the Putorana Plateau from Kureika to Lake Dyupkun by water, and then to Lake Lama by foot, and to Norilsk by water. This hiking travel was completed for the first time.
"It is August, the sleety snow fells, and we are going to the mountain pass, limited visibility of about forty meters," says Dmitry Alyoshkin about the most difficult campaign in his life. "We need to camp and wait for good weather, but we have already waited for many days. We have neither food nor fuel. We go on slippery stones, snow and moss climbing 1400 meters above the sea level. We follow the points in the navigator that we have previously mapped from the topographical map from the General Staff. Once we’ve lost our way; the map turned out inaccurate...".
What happened next, you will learn at the lecture.
The lecture will be held at the "Conservation Embassy" of Zaryadie Park (Moscow, Varvarka Street, 6).
How to get there: http://www.zaryadyepark.ru/en/how-get/
Free admission.