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We arrived in waves at this remote city in central Siberia (map). I was coming from the closest point --
Moscow, six time zones away -- yet somehow I managed to be the first to
arrive. I spotted expedition leader Shane
Lundgren and photographer Marc
Bryan-Brown at the rundown airport in Yakutsk -- a remote Siberian
city that serves as our jumping-off point. The pair had made it to the
baggage claim with a small mountain of equipment. They were at
wit's end.
Dr. Bill Fitzhugh finally arrived in
Yakutsk late the following night. Turns out he got bogged down by
bureaucracy as well: regional airports close on weekends. So he had to sit through two perfectly sunny days,
waiting for Monday morning...which, inevitably, was grey and overcast.   
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