Those living by Lake Baikal, the world’s deepest and oldest lake, treat it as a living creature with a character and often refer to it as a sea. It seems the connection between this majestic lake and its inhabitants is almost inextricable, and 78-year-old Lyubov Morekhodova is living proof.
Born on Olkhon Island, she retired to live on the Baikal shoreline. Lyubov chops wood and carries buckets of water from an ice hole, keeps cows and regularly hits the ice in a pair of skates made by her father 76 years ago. The Siberian woman has become an internet sensation after a video of her gliding gracefully across the ice went viral.
