Word: kruglyakov
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...Russia's new regime has also opened the way to travel entrepreneurs: nowadays about half a dozen local operators offer packages. Our tour company, The Lost World Ltd. (go to travelkamchatka.com), was launched by Nikolay Kruglyakov, former chief of the Kamchatka rescue service, in 1993, when Moscow stopped financing the rescue service mountaineers. "The central government said, 'Make your own money,'" he explains. "That was the start of a business opportunity." In 2002, Lost World guided some 500 foreign tourists on summer hiking and rafting expeditions. In spring and winter, the company and several other firms organize helicopter skiing...
...Primitive and unpredictable, Kamchatka might not be for the fainthearted. But for extravagant, dazzling scenery, it is unparalleled. "People come here and reproach us," Kruglyakov of Lost World says. "They ask, 'How is it that you have all this beauty and you haven't told anyone?'" Kamchatka, wild as it remains, is slowly opening to the world...
...Russia's new regime has also opened the way to travel entrepreneurs: today about half a dozen local operators offer packages. Our tour company, the Lost World Ltd., was launched by Nikolay Kruglyakov, former chief of the Kamchatka Rescue Service, in 1993, when Moscow stopped financing the Rescue Service mountaineers. "The central government said, 'Make your own money,'" he explains. "That was the start of a business opportunity." This year Lost World guided some 500 foreign tourists on summer hiking and rafting expeditions. In spring and winter, the company and several others organize helicopter skiing and snowboarding down steep volcanoes...
Primitive and unpredictable, Kamchatka may not be for the fainthearted. But for extravagant, dazzling scenery, it is unparalleled. "People come here and reproach us," Kruglyakov says. "They ask, 'How is it that you have all this beauty and you haven't told anyone?'" Now Kamchatka, wild as it remains, is slowly opening to the world...
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