What sparks an adventure to begin for you? Ticking off a bucket list, planned expeditions years in advance or a moment of serendipity? What about an idea whispered in your ear? Would you set off in search of the unknown, the missing and the forgotten in one of the world’s wastelands? It was the reason Sophy Roberts experienced the further reaches of Siberia on a quest, the people she meets and the history of a land that even the name still strikes fear.