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3 Months of Skiing | Charlie Walker

Name: 3 Months of Skiing | Charlie Walker
Uploaded: 2022-09-12T14:07:52+00:00
Duration: 47 s
Channel: Tyler Wagner
Description: In 2017, the speaker recounts a six‑month Russian adventure that began with roughly three months of backcountry skiing across the Ural Mountains…

12 Sept 2022 · 1 min

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In 2017, the speaker recounts a six‑month Russian adventure that began with roughly three months of backcountry skiing across the Ural Mountains, followed by a couple of months kayaking down a Siberian river. The expedition was undertaken with a partner and required extended stays beyond the 30‑day tourist visa limit, so they entered Russia on business visas. While resupplying in a small Ural town, authorities arrested them for using business visas to conduct tourism activities and subsequently brought them before a court for "committing tourism" on a business visa. The speaker reflects on the difficulty of navigating Russian visa regulations for long‑term expeditions, concluding that such legal obstacles are hard to overcome.

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In 2017, I spent about 6 months in Russia skiing for about 3 months down the Ural Mountains and then kayaking for another couple of months or so down a river through Siberia. On this journey, myself and the partner I did that expedition with, the expedition partner, we got in trouble in the Ural Mountains. They arrested us on arrival in some small town for resupply. We had business visas because back then the longest tourist visa you could get was 30 days and we needed much longer. And back then they took us to court for committing tourism while on a business visa. So you can never, you can never win, really.