The riders broke two of their three chainsaws while cutting the ice and they then used a motorboat to push the floe down the river. Fifteen Russians from around the country went wakeboarding, played the guitar and made a camp fire right on the ice floe. As a wakeboarder came back to the ice floe, it broke into pieces. So the men carried all the equipment onto one piece and continued the trip. According to the organisers, the participants were engineers, accountants and lawyers, not just adrenaline junkies.