Visas stamped, flights booked

Visas are stamped, flights are booked (leaving 31st March), articles commissioned, but I still need the loan of a couple of cameras and associated bits (see below). If you can persuade anybody to help I'd appreciate it.

I talked to Evgeniya last night, apparently the temperature has dropped down to the usual 25 degrees below after a very mild winter. A friend, Albert, sent me some satelite images of Siberia recently with great areas at temperatures near zero. He believes the melting Siberian permafrost next summer will release methane with the climate warming effect of the total emissions of the US. These positive feedbacks were only 'nightmare scenarios' when I attended the Kyoto climate conference ten years ago, now they seem only to real a prospect. The lady in this picture is not Evgeniya, and it was taken in summer.