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Mysterious Woman Walking Siberia’s Road of Bones For Months
Ghostly woman walks slowly along Road of Bones
The lonely soul has been seen for months walking along the Road of Bones towards Magadan in the far east of Russia.
She was walking even in the extreme winter cold.
The woman refuses offers of lifts on one of the world’s loneliest routes, originally built on the bones of tens of thousands of Gulag prisoners who perished as they were forced to construct a road to Stalin’s political prisoner camps.
Nor, it seems, does she try to contact people on the way.
Some say her name is Luidmila, others that she came originally from Kazakhstan.
She has ‘Slavik appearance’.
She was seen in the village of Khandyga in January when locals heard she was heading for Kamchatka, the peninsula jutting into the Pacific on Russia’s eastern coast.
A post in CrimYakutia online community reads: 'A woman is walking along Kolyma federal highway.
‘She doesn't contact anyone, and doesn't respond to offers to give her a lift in any way.’
Police do not try to pick her up because ‘she hasn’t stolen anything’.
Stranger still, there’s no mention of how she’s still alive. The Kolyma Highway rarely reaches above -30 degrees Celsius in winter (-22 degrees Fahrenheit), and it’s often much colder. That’s the kind of cold Jack London wrote about.
That kind of cold can kill.
It’s not impossible to survive, humans are pretty adept at dealing with cold, but you need gear. From the picture provided by the Times, she doesn’t have any. Of course, she could be a survival expert, she could be well equipped with fire-starting material, she could be a student of Wim Hoff, in which case good for her, that’s pretty cool. She really doesn’t give that impression though.
Ghostly woman walks slowly along Road of Bones
The lonely soul has been seen for months walking along the Road of Bones towards Magadan in the far east of Russia.
She was walking even in the extreme winter cold.
The woman refuses offers of lifts on one of the world’s loneliest routes, originally built on the bones of tens of thousands of Gulag prisoners who perished as they were forced to construct a road to Stalin’s political prisoner camps.
Nor, it seems, does she try to contact people on the way.
Some say her name is Luidmila, others that she came originally from Kazakhstan.
She has ‘Slavik appearance’.
She was seen in the village of Khandyga in January when locals heard she was heading for Kamchatka, the peninsula jutting into the Pacific on Russia’s eastern coast.
A post in CrimYakutia online community reads: 'A woman is walking along Kolyma federal highway.
‘She doesn't contact anyone, and doesn't respond to offers to give her a lift in any way.’
Police do not try to pick her up because ‘she hasn’t stolen anything’.
Stranger still, there’s no mention of how she’s still alive. The Kolyma Highway rarely reaches above -30 degrees Celsius in winter (-22 degrees Fahrenheit), and it’s often much colder. That’s the kind of cold Jack London wrote about.
That kind of cold can kill.
It’s not impossible to survive, humans are pretty adept at dealing with cold, but you need gear. From the picture provided by the Times, she doesn’t have any. Of course, she could be a survival expert, she could be well equipped with fire-starting material, she could be a student of Wim Hoff, in which case good for her, that’s pretty cool. She really doesn’t give that impression though.
