"Above all? I'd like You to imagine how inconceiably vast the Russian Siberia is? so even if You live ten times more it wouldn't be enough t oexplore it up.

Then? You will have t orealize that is really difficult now to find places in the World where You could face such a nature still untouched and unexplored." Andrei Nikiforov.

ANDREI NIKIFOROV, w.b. 1958, 17 years outdoor sports, last 10 years specialized in trekking/rafting into the "Russian remoteness":

1991 (October): whitewater kayaking the Chatkal river, Tien-Shan (with Deutsch)

1992 ( May), 1993 (August), 1999 (July-August): exploration of active volcanoes, Kamchatka/ the Kourils (with French/Swiss)

1994 (July-August): trekking/rafting the rivers falling into Baikal lake (with Swiss)

1992 (March), 1994,1995 (April): ski-expeditions on Russia the Polar (with French).

As a hobby, classical guitars, the favourite music-of J.C. Bach.