Frozen Lake Baikal at night

The spectre of wolves haunts the photographer as he walks at night along the Tazheran steppe to capture the shore of Russia’s Lake Baikal. Crowned the “Jewel of Siberia”, Baikal is the world’s deepest lake, and the biggest lake by volume, holding 20% of the world’s fresh water. In the winter, the lake 31,722 square meter surface is entirely frozen with ice averaging 2 meters thick.