You might never have heard of it. You almost certainly don't give it the respect it deserves. I read a book about it once. It cuts a swathe through Siberia. A thousand miles from the sea, it is twelve miles wide. Think about that for a second.
It is one of the rivers which still contains taimen, largest of the salmonids. These are proper trout-like fish which can leap from the water, and tailwalk and everything. They can be 6ft long and weight 200lbs. They pluck squirrels and ducks from branch and river bank. How about that?
(Long-term readers of my match reports will know this stuff already. For some reason, the Lena popped into my mind yesterday, and I thought it was worth repeating.)
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