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  • A local Hindu mystic and Aruvedic doctors poses in his hut in the Marsyandi River Valley, Nepal
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  • ANTARCTICA. Weddell seal sleeps on snowy beach on King George Island in South Shetland Islands, near the Antarctic Peninsula.
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  • A villager gathers leave as fodder for his animals near Pokhara, Nepal.
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  • A hindu ascetic on pilgrimage to Muktinath Temple in the Himalaya of Nepal.
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  • A village elder rests beside the trail in the Kali Gandaki Valley, Nepal.
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  • A Hindu pilgrim en route to Muktinath Temple, north of Annapurna in Nepal.
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  • NEPAL, Himalaya. A woman in the Marsyandi Valley below Annapurna wears her traditional jewelry, including gold nose and earrings, wrist bangles, and necklaces made from coral & silver Indian coins, all dating before 1920 -- probably inherited from her grandmother.
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  • A monk stands in a Tibetan Buddhis gompa (temple) in Braga village in the Manang Valley north of Annapurna in Nepal.
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  • A village woman in the Muktinath Valley, norh of Annapurna in Nepal.
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  • Young Thakali boy in Kalopani, Nepal.
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  • Young snake charmers play with their reptiles during a Hindu pilgrimage to Amarnath Cave in the Great Himalaya Range of Kashmir, India.
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  • A Hindu ascetic poses during 5-day Himalayan pilgrimage to Amarnath Cave, a reputed home of Shiva in Kashmir, India.
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  • In Bangladesh's brutal 1971 war of independence from Pakistan, hundreds of thousands of women were widowed, left homeless and destitute including this pair of once-middle class woman who six years later still lived at Mirupur Destitute Camp near Dhaka.  1977
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  • Youngsters line up for a food distribution at Mirpur Destitute Camp near , set up at an abndoned soap factory after a cyclone & bloody war of independence left millions of peole homless.  1977 image.
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  • Tibetan Buddhist monks engage in a playful waterfight at a monastery in Tibet.
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  • Uyghur elders chat outsidea mosque in Kashgar, Xinjiang Province, China.
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  • Tibetan Buddhist monks chant and play musical instruments during  a sacred puja ceremonyat Swayambhu Temple in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal, 1986.
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  • A Hindu Yogi practices his craft at Pashupatinath Temple in Kathmandu, Nepal, 1986.
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  • A hindu ascetic meditates outside a temple in Kathmandu, Nepal, 1996.
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  • NEPAL, Kathmandu. Sanu Thapa (MR), a traditional Nepali singer.
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  • Villagers plow and plant rice in flooded paddies in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal., 1977.
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  • Troops from the Nepali army perform a drill at a festival in Kathmandu, Nepal.
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  • NEPAL, HIMALAYA, Village schoolboy near Junbesi in lowland Nepal.
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  • Villagers carry leaves they chopped in the forest for their animals, a major fuel of Nepal's deforestation.
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  • Auvsan, an 84-year old blacksmith, makes many of the critical buckles, bridles, and other metal tools needed in the Darhad Valley
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  • Umgan, a traditional shaman beats his drum, dances and chants to put himself into a trance in the Darhad Valley, Mongolia.
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  • MONGOLIA, Elder sisters in a nomadic family pose in their best dels (robes) in their ger.  Bayar is on the right, Ayush on the left.
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  • Duujii, returning from helping other nomads cross Utreg Pass, carries a juniper branch as part of a spiritual ritual in Darhad Valley, Mongolia.
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  • Sherpa Yak Drivers enjoy a break with sale and butter tea.  Khumbu Region, Nepal
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  • HIMALAYA, NEPAL. Sherpa elder Dawa Tenzing, (1907-1985), veteran of 1924 Mallory/Irvine expedition & first Nepal-side Everest expeditions. (1980 photo).
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  • "Gujar" Nomadic Shepherd.
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  • Balti sister & brother, Suru Valley, Baltisan (part of Ladakh) India.
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  • Tibetan Buddhist lama with rosary & prayer books. Rangdum Gompa (monastery) Zanskar (part of Ladakh) India.
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  • CHINA, TIBET, Tsangpo Gorge. Villagers lunch on shared tsampa bread, chili pepper paste & salty tea.
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  • TIBET, Tsangpo Gorge, Villager crosses Tsangpo R. (Brahmaputra) on single cable "bridge."
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  • Inuit hunter Jayko Apak waits for seals on ice floe, Baffin Island, Nunavut.
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  • Villagers circumambulate the Jokhang Temple, one of holiest sites in Lhasa, Tibet, China.
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  • A Tibetan Buddhist monk tends yak butter lamps at Tashilumpo Monastery in Shigatse, Tibet, China.
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  • A youngster rests beside millet fierlds surrounding his family's hut ner Gandrung, Nepal.
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  • A village woman in Muktinath, Nepal.
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  • A village woman in Muktinath, Nepal.
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  • NEPAL, HIMALAYA. Buddhist nomad in tent north of Annapurna massif.
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  • Manang Valley, north of Annapurna in Nepal.
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  • A village musician with his homemade violin waits to entertain bus travelers in Nepal.
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  • Ex-Khampa soldier from Tibet's rebel army in Nepal
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  • A young Thakali man in Jomsom, Nepal
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  • A Chettri caste farm woman relaxes in Nepal's Marsyandi Valley.
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  • A young Nepali girl carries her brother in a blanket in their village in the Kali Gandaki Valley.
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  • A Thakali Innkeeper counts rupees in the Kali Gandaki Gorge, Nepal.
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  • Children outside their house in the Kali Gandaki Gorge, Nepal.
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  • Despite winter cold, a Russian airport worker tends a plane on Severnaya Zemlya, an archipeligo far north of Siberia.
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  • ANTARCTICA. Rime from breathing coats face & jacket of Dr. Lis Densmore after becoming 1st woman to climb 16,067' Mount Vinson, Antarctica's highest mountain. (Ellsworth Mountains).
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  • the Manang Valley north of Annapurna in Nepal.
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  • A former Gurkha soldier carries loads for tourist on the around Annapurna trek, Nepal.
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  • ANTARCTICA, Mount Vaughan Expedition. 88-year old Norman Vaughan below 10,302' Mount Vaughan, located less than 300 miles from South Pole and named for Norman in 1929 by explorer Richard Byrd. Norman climbed the peak in December 1994, 2 days shy of his 89th birthday.
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  • ANTARCTICA, Conrad Anker (MR) in violent storm near Mt.Vinson, Ellsworth Mts.
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  • A Hindu ascetic (sadhu) smokes a bidi cigarette while on a pilgrimage to Amarnath Cave in the Great Himalaya Range of Kashmir, India.
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  • Peter Hackett in emergency snowhole at 23,000 on Baruntse, Peak, 1980.
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  • Aid worker Meredith Wiltsie discusses a self-help project at Mirpur Destitute Camp, a living space for Bengali people displaced by a typhoon and brutal war of independence.
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  • Inuit hunter & kayak maker, Peter Paniloo wears traditional caribou parka, Pond Inlet, Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Canada. Greg Child clowns about expedition sponsorship at base camp, Great Sail Peak.
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  • Mountaineer Greg Child bundles up against in sub-zero temperatures during a scouting trip to Canada's Baffin Island.
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  • Dream Machines, Half Moon Bay Airport, California.
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  • Cordillera Sarmiento, Patagonia, Chile.
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  • A village boy, probably of Memba descent, stands in his village the in Lunang Valley, of Tibet, China.
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  • CHINA,  Xinjiang.  Uygar girls giggle over encounter with photographer in Kashgar.
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  • A nomadic Kyrgyz mother and her children relax near near sand dunes in the Pamir Mountains of Xinjiang, China.
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  • A nomadic Kyrgyz girl stands near her family's camels and summer hut in the Pamir Mountains of Xinjiang Province in far western China.
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  • Ahmed Fafoo, a merchant in Srinigar, Kashmir, India, prepares a hookah for his evening smoke as he sits by a portable charcoal heater.
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  • Carbon County, Montana.A close view of a ring-necked pheasant.
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  • Wrangler Joe Tomaselli, cowboy coffee, Ansel Adams Wilderness, Sierra Nevada, CA.
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  • Bedouin men wearing traditional keffiyeh scarves chat and share tea in a wool tent in Jordan's Wadi Rum, part of the Arabian Desert.
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  • A Sherpa woman carries her grandson inPangboche Village in the Khumbu region of Nepal's Himalaya.
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  • Kayaker Peter Thompson carries his boat by the Kananaskis River near Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
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  • Sherp women in their kitchen in Namche Bazar in the Khumbu region of Nepal 1986.
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  • Sherpa elder Kunchok Chombi drinks yak butter tea by a window in a house in Namche Bazaar, the biggest town in Nepal's Khumbu region.
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  • Sherpa elder Kunchok Chombi relaxes by a window in a house in Namche Bazaar, Khumbu region, Nepal.
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  • Village farmers who have trekked days from lowland Nepal relax  after carrying baskets of their wares to sell at  the Saturday bazar in mountainous Namche Bazaar, leading town of the Sherpa people.
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  • NEPAL, Kathmandu. Ascetic Hindu shopkeeper watches his grandchild near Pashupatinath Temple, Kathmandu, Nepal. Trident is a symbol of Shiva.
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  • NEPAL, Kathmandu. Hindu Ascetic at Pashupatinath Temple, one of religion's holiest sites.
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  • Nepal, Kathmandu.  Hindu ascentic (sadhu) on temple steps, Durbar Square.
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  • A youngster stands near vendors outside a temple in Kathmandu, Nepal, 1996.
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  • NEPAL, Kathmandu, Children in costume for Gai Jatra festival, honoring recently deceased relatives.
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  • KATHMANDU, NEPAL. Hindu ascetic meditates on temple steps, Durbar Square.
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  • KATHMANDU, NEPAL. Hindu ascetic in pilgrim's shelter at Pashupatinath Temple, one of holiest shrines for Shiva.
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  • Children of Tibetan refugees attend a school in Kathmandu, Nepal, 1996.
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