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My shoes are soaked to the gill, my feet cold as ice. Crossing over these marshes without sinking into six inches of icy water is proving to be an impossible task.
But in the face of Mongolia’s largest glacier, surrounded by the country’s highest peaks and located in a remote pocket of the Steppes considered sacred by the Kazakh and Tuva nomadic tribes that call this part of the world home, a little discomfort is negligible.
I’m hiking to Potanin Glacier inside the Tavan Bogd National Park in Mongolia’s westernmost frontier on Intrepid’s inaugural Uncharted Expedition. Wedged in an isolated corner of Bayan-Ölgii province in the Altai Mountains, this glacier is about as remote as you can get. Not surprising, then, that getting there is a challenge.