That is impressive.

While cycling across Russia last year, I felt a bit smug as I found a bicycle shop in Novosibirsk and mentioned to them that we were cycling all the way across Russia from St Petersburg to Vladivostok. The bike shop owner pulled out a larger scrapbook and told us in pretty good English "you are not the first". That scrapbook contained a page or so from a number of different cyclists who had come through there (some with tales of woe that were well solved by this shop, others tales of adventure). The one that particularly stuck with me was a Japanese cyclist who was riding from Magadan (Pacific Coast, road of bones) to Murmansk (Arctic by Finland) in the winter. Put me in my place then and puts me in my place now when my thermometer says a balmy -19C (-2F) and might get colder before I cycle to work tomorrow.