 Poster: A snowHead
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Ex Para Karl Bushby who has been walking around the world for the past 7 years is to be deported from Russia due to entering the country via a non authorised access point (across the frozen baring straits)
see http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4909028.stm for more info
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Hopefully, he'll be allowed to continue his walk after he's applied for a new visa and re-entered legally. Strikes me as a bit of bad planning not to have sorted this out in advance - or maybe he needs the oxygen of publicity???
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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He clearly hadn't prepared "Contingency Plan #131 - Visa" 
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kuwait_ian, acording the BBC on the telly his father doesn't think it will be possible, the guy is as mad as they come, i built some footbeds for him back in '98 before he set out. one of them is framed in the Superfeet UK office signed and after 10000 + miles still looking good (it is in a sealed glass box, might be the smell)
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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CEM, I hope he pulls it off. Why are the Russians such tossers, its not like it will be a big tourist crossing.
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| Frosty the Snowman wrote: |
| Why are the Russians such tossers |
They've had a bureaucratic mindset since Tsarist times, carried through the Soviet era and no doubt beyond. Nikolai Gogol's comedy The Government Inspector (1836) is an excellent satire on the theme.
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Problem seems to have been point of entry. Where he pitched up having crossed from Alaska made sense geographically, but no bureaucratically. His father (who does not speak Russian) ran into brick walls trying to deal with officials in Russia. He might have had better luck dealing with the embassy here - or asking his MP for Foreign Office assistance.
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I hope he sort's out the paperwork and manages to complete his walk.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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For any following this story - he has today been allowed to carry on with only a £40 fine.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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the guy who drove accross the baring straits into russia (planing to drive round the world in a piste basher with 2 archimides screws bolted onto the sides) got told to turn round in the same place for the same reason.
supprised that this guy hadnt done his research properly......
(course as i lifted that from the back page of Topgear mag it may not be 100% accurate....
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