Buryat Republic

The destination of the X-plore team is the Buryat Republic, located in the southern part of East Siberia south and east of Lake Baikal. It has a favorable geographic location, with borders on Irkutsk and Chita regions, the Republic of Tuva, and Mongolia. It is a predominantly mountainous country with a small number of flat regions at altitudes of more than 500 m. The capital of Buryatia is Ulan-Ude. Buryatia has a severe continental climate. Winters are long, cold, windless, and snowy, while summers are short and warm. Air temperatures range from +40°C in summer to -50°C in winter.

The Mountains

All the variety of mountainous landscapes of Transbaikalye you can see in the South-Muisky Range. Here you can come across an Alpine landscape with sheer rock walls and peaks hundreds of meters high, difficult mountainous passes and next to all that massive sloping tops; marshy rivers with dark water and close by – cascades of waterfalls; a dull larch taiga and luxuriant cedars. The highest mountain of the South Muisky Range is the Muisky Giant with 3067 metres of height.

Alpenheat BootCover as well as the bootheating systems provide comfortably warm feet for the expedition participants also under most extreme conditions.