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...week trek, our party of 11?Xall cousins from the U.S., ranging in age from 15 to 64?Xwould see more bears, as well as reindeer, foxes, ermines and half-meter-long trout. We would hike up an active volcano during a hurricane and skinny-dip in a hot, sulfurous pond. We would marvel at spouting geysers and boiling mudholes in psychedelic hues. We would share vodka and salmon caviar with melancholy park rangers in ramshackle huts. And we would be seduced by the mystery of Kamchatka, a land of fire and ice that remains one of the wildest places...
...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 and snowboarding down steep volcanoes as well as visits to indigenous reindeer herders by dogsled or snowmobile. Other companies specialize in bear hunting and trout fishing. Meanwhile, cruise ships ply the shores, scouting sea lion colonies and groups of rare Steller's sea eagles with their two-meter wingspans...
...don’t even mind its commercialization. For better or for worse, there is a commercial Christmas, represented by Santa Claus, garish Christmas lights, “A Christmas Carol,” jammed airports and shopping malls and scary claymation TV movies about Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. Commercial Christmas may not have much to do with the original Christmas, but it is a tradition in its own right, one that exists beside traditional Christmas as the star of a biographical movie exists beside the movie’s subject. What bothers me is the decline...
...week trek, our party of 11--all cousins from the U.S., ranging in age from 15 to 64--would see more bears, as well as reindeer, foxes, ermines and 2-ft.-long trout...
...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, as well as visits to indigenous reindeer herders by dogsled or snowmobile. Other companies specialize in bear hunting and trout fishing. Meanwhile, cruise ships ply the shores, scouting sea-lion colonies and groups of rare Steller's sea eagles with their 7-ft. wingspans...