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Before the beginning of the race
A lot of people have gathered for the celebration in the village of Esso
The race starts along the main street of Esso
The local priest, Father Vladislav (Revenok) participates in the race
"Look out, dog sled is going!"
The finish of the preliminary stage for 10 km
Lisa Strecker, the ethnographer from Germany is telling:
"How did I begin all that?"
"I've been last year at the opening ceremony in Esso",
"...and we saw the start of mushers..."
"When we arrived then we just wondered about the celebration..."
"And it was the very beginning for the mushers..."
"We never had chances to see the whole race..."
"Then we thought with a friend of mine that we also had draught dogs at home..."
"And we decided to go in for it..."
"Our dogs were puppies then..."
"They lived in the city, and we started to prepare..."
"Then there were more and more dogs..."
"And now we have the whole team..."
"In general women not often participate in such race, how do you feel?"
"Are you afraid or not? Isn't it an adventure for you?"
"It's very interesting to me..."
"I don't feel that I have to win by all means...."
"I'm glad if I go half of the way..."
"If more than a half - very good..."
"If less - also not bad..."
"I don't feel that I should come to the main finish by all means..."
"And when did you start dog sledding?"
"Well, last year...."
While dogs run actors give the concert
The second day of the race. The Even nomad camp Menedek.
Dinner is cooking...
Valery Chuprin, Even musher from the village of Esso, participates in Beringia for the third time
"What are you expectations this time?"
I can't say anything for sure...
I think, that I come to the finish in the middle; I won't be the last one....
But I can't guarantee to be at the lead ...
I know that I have not enough strength ...
My dogs are the same - that's the third race for them ...
They are 12 years old, and that's why this race is the last one for them...
Tatyana Indanova, the student-ichthyologist, who conducts the salmon monitoring program
"I'll go with the maintenance escort till the next checkpoint "Yanpat"..."
"That's about 60-70 km from here..."
"We'll go with the escort in order to show the route on the snow road..."
"In order to our dogs won't get lost..."
"To flag the road... and to help our cook at the checkpoint..."
"That's for the first time when I've decided to go..."
"For a long time I wanted to go to winter forest..."
"I've been in the forest for several weeks, but only in summer..."
Only once when I was a child I've been there in winter...
And now I'd like to try it again..."
"What might be so interesting there?"
"First, it's an extreme...Because it's so...unusual there in winter..."
"Besides I'd like to make at least some contribution to Beringia..."
"We're going there as volunteers, to help..."
"Kolya, how long are you going to escort the race?"
"I'm for the first stage, the most difficult for them..."
"It's about 90 km, the longest part of the way..."
"I'll accompany them, show them the winter road, and come back ..."
"May they won't lose their time..."
The maintenance escort goes ahead of the mushers on snowmobiles...
"Hey, good luck!!!"
"Father Vladislav!!!"
"Happy journey!!!..."
Octyabrina Indanova, the elder of Even village of Anavgai, is also dancing...