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  • Mount Everest rises above clouds in the Khumbu region of Nepal. 1980.  Lhotse right
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  • Amina Khatum, once a middle class woman with servants, was widowed and cast onto the street by the country's brutal War of Independence in 1971. Although still living in a refugee camp six years later, family and friends still gave her reasons to smile.
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  • Homeless village women from Bangladesh, left widowed, destitute or raped after a cyclone and brutal war of independence in 1971,  find shelter at Mirpur Destitute Camp near Dhaka , 1977 Image.
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  • A woman shops in an outdoor market in the northern port city of Arkhangel'sk Russia
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  • Pigeons fly between pagoda roofs in Kathmandu Durbar Square, Nepal, 1986.
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  • An aid worker leads a family planning discussion at Mirpur Destitute Camp, set up at an abndoned soap factory near Dhaka, Bangladesh,  after a cyclone & bloody war of independence left millions of peole homeless.  1977 image.
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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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  • Civil war refugees at Mirpur Destitute Camp near Dhaka, Bangladesh, 1977.
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  • A member of the ruling junta in Bangladesh reviews Bengali youth groups  celebrating thier recent independence from Pakistan.  1977 image.
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  • Photographer Gordon Wiltsie helps homeless people dig a fish pond to feed their neighbors at Mirpur Destitute Camp near Dhaka Bangladesh in 1977.
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  • A man pushes a cart loaded with bamboo up a road in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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  • A sailboat carries cargo up a river near Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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  • BANGLADESH, Dhaka. Impoverished Bengali mother waits for relief food ration at Mirpur destitute camp.
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  • An aid worker prepare to distribute food at Mirpur Destitute Camp, set up at an abndoned soap factory near Dhaka, Bangladesh,  after a cyclone & bloody war of independence left millions of peole homeless.  1977 image.
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  • An aid worker leads a family planning discussion at Mirpur Destitute Camp, set up at an abndoned soap factory near Dhaka, Bangladesh,  after a cyclone & bloody war of independence left millions of peole homeless.  1977 image.
    BD 0302.jpg
  • Homeless village women from Bangladesh, left widowed, destitute or raped after a cyclone and brutal war of independence in 1971,  find shelter at Mirpur Destitute Camp near Dhaka , 1977 Image.
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  • Homeless and malnourished village children from Bangladesh find a moment to smile at Mirpur Destitute Camp near Dhaka, Bangladesh. in 1977.  Their mother had been left widowed, violated and destitute after both a cyclone and subsequent war of indepence in 1971.
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  • A homeless village boy finds shelter at Mirpur Destitute Ramp near Dhaka, Bangladesh in 1977.  His mother had been left both widowed and destitute after both a cyclone and subsequent war of indepence in 1971.
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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 once-middle class woman who six years later still lived at Mirupur Destitute Camp near Dhaka.  1977
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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 once-middle class woman who six years later still lived at Mirupur Destitute Camp near Dhaka.  1977
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  • An unusual view of Mount Everest,  Nuptse & Makalu from Changri Glacier in the Khumbu region of Nepal. 1980
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  • Mount Everest rises above clouds in the Khumbu region of Nepal. 1980.  Lhotse right
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  • trekkers cross 6420m Cho Las pass in the Khumbu region of Nepal. 1980.  Baruntse Peak bkg.
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  • A trekking group rests on the Ngozumpa Glacier, Gokyo Valley, in the Khumbu region of Nepal. 1980
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  • Mountaineer at 20,000' on the North Ridge of Baruntse Peak in the Khumbu region of Nepal
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  • Trekkers stop at a teahouse in the Kali Gandaki Valley, Nepal
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  • Trekkers visit the Annapurna Sanctuary in the Nepal Himalaya.
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  • After a cold, rainy night on the tundra north of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a group of nomadic Komi reindeer herders warm up and eat a quick breakfast of bread and grilled reindeer meat in a grass-cutter’s hut near Snopa village.  Left to right:  Arthum Khantazeski, Alexei Semyashkin, Vasily Chuprov, and Alexei Vauchesky.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, Arthum Khantazeski, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder, watches – and sometimes directs – the herd movement as cows begin to calve.  The group’s objective is to keep them in one place during this crucial period, before mosquitoes force both people and caribou to move to higher ground in nearby mountains.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, 77-year old Marie Terentéva, a member of the last nomadic Komi reindeer herding clan, relaxes by the wood stove in her cozy chum (tepee), which is much warmer than sub-freezing temperatures outside.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, reindeer crush together in panic and climb atop each other in a temporary pen as nomadic Komi reindeer herders capture some of them to pull their sleds.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, 77-year old Marie Terentéva, wears a reindeer-skin lined malitsa robe to keep her warm as she waits to herd reindeer into the pen. She is one of the matriarchs of the last nomadic Komi reindeer herding clan.
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  • During a rare time to relax north of the Arctic Circle in Russia,  the women of the last nomadic Komi reindeer herding clan gather for tea and biscuits in Marie Terentéva’s chum.  Left to Right:  Marie and Katerina Vaucheskaya (ages 72 & 38), Rema Chuprova (70+) & Marie Terentéva (77).
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder harnesses domesticated animals to his sled in order to move camp from one grazing area to the next.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, nomadic Komi reindeer herders grill reindeer meat on a stick over coals of an outdoor campfire.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, 77-year old Komi reindeer herder Marie Terentéva, a nomad,  disassembles spruce poles that hold up her chum, while others work on other chums.
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  • As a Komi reindeer herding clan prepares to move, they strip a canvas cover off a chum, exposing the warm reindeer skin lining below.  Piece by piece, everything will be loaded onto reindeer-driven sleds and driven across the tundra north of the Arctic Circle in Russia.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, Vasily Vauchesky, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder, bides time on a sled as he spends two weeks on the tundra, without a tent, watching the herd.
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  • Moscow, Russia. Lighted stores at Red Square. St. Basil's Cathedral background.
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  • Enkhtuya Ragchaa, a 53-year-old shaman of the Tsaatan (Reindeer) people.
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  • Smithsonian archaeologist & forensics specialist, Dr. Bruno Frohlich, unearths a bronze-age skeleton at a site above the Delger River near Muren, Mongolia. The  skeleton may be 2700+ years old.
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  • Horses graze by a river in the Darhad Valley, Mongolia, overlooked by the Horidal Saridag Mountains.
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  • in the Khumbu region of Nepal's Himalaya.
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  • An unusual view of Mount Everest from the Changri La pass in the Khumbu region of Nepal's Himalaya. Also visible (L to R) are Lhotse, Makalu and Baruntse.
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  • Trekkers climb a hill in the Gokyo Valley in the Khumbu region of Nepal's Himalaya. In the background are Cholatse and Taboche peaks, the Ngozumpa Glacier and Dudh Pokhari lake.
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  • NEPAL, HIMALAYA. Sunset on 6997-meter Machhapuchhare Peak ("The Fish Tail") in Annapurna massif above Pokhara.
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  • Acrobats perform at a Naadam festival in Zuunmod, Mongolia, near Ullanbaator.
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  • Newari Hindus in Bhaktapur, Nepal, gather to celebrate Gai Jatra (the cow festival) where families honor their dead and march or dance through the city, performing  to encourage their passing to heaven.
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  • Family members carry their parents at a celebration in Kathmandu, Nepal, 1996.
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  • Ben Wiltsie and a Nepali girl sit in a door near Kathmandu, Nepal, 1986.
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  • A crowd shelters under umbrellas as Hindu celebrants gather amongst pagodas to celebrate Krishna's birthday at the temple square in Patan Nepal, 1996.
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  • A Hindu ascetic poses with a cobra around his neck at a temple in Kathmandu, Nepal, 1996.
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  • HIMALAYA, NEPAL. Gabelhorn Peak, Annapurna Massif (from Annapurna Sanctuary).
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  • A mountain rises above the Annapurna Sanctuary, Nepal.
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  • Meredith Wiltsie at a Holi festival in Dhaka, Bangladesh, 1977.
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  • The groom arrives at a wedding in Dhaka, Bangladesh, 1977.
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  • A military youth group at an Independence Day celebration in Dhaka, Bangladesh, 1977.
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  • A monsoon thunderhead towers over Dhaka, Bangladesh, 1977.
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  • A civil war refugee in Mirpur Destitute Camp near Dhaka, Bangladesh, 1977.
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  • Middle class college students wear the latest fashions as mingle in  in Dhaka, Bangladesh, 1977.
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  • House boys at Hotel Eram watch a monsoon thunderhead tower over Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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  • House boys at Hotel Eram watch a monsoon thunderhead tower over Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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  • A young woman weaves macrame to sell in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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  • Photographer Gordon Wiltsie helps homeless people dig a fish pond to feed their neighbors at Mirpur Destitute Camp near Dhaka Bangladesh in 1977.
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  • near Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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  • Cattle await an uncertain fate at the weekly Mirpur animal market near Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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  • Men saw logs into firewood near Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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  • Homeless village woman from Bangladesh make bamboo lath for a duck pond at Mirpur Destitute Camp near Dhaka, 1977.  They had been had left destitute and violated  by  back-to -back cyclone and a  brutal 1971 war of independence
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  • A homeless village woman from Bangladesh line up for a ration of milk and survival biscuits at  Mirpur Destitute Camp near Dhaka, 1977.  She had been had left destitute, widowed and violated  by  back-to -back cyclone and  brutal 1971 war of independence
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  • A homeless village woman from Bangladesh line up for a ration of milk and survival biscuits at  Mirpur Destitute Camp near Dhaka, 1977.  She had been had left destitute, widowed and violated  by  back-to -back cyclone and brutal 1971 war of independence
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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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  • Homeless village people from Bangladesh smoke a homemade hookah at  Mirpur Destitute Ramp near Dhaka, Bangladesh.  1977. They were left destitute by a back to back cyclone and  brutal war of independence in 1971.   1977 image.
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  • Neudoma Sherpani beside a trekkers campfire in the Khumbu region of Nepal. 1980.
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  • Mt. Ama Dablam towers over Pheriche village in the Khumbu region of Nepal. 1980.
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  • Mount Everest in the Khumbu region of Nepal. 1980
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  • A trekker sits in font of Mt. Nuptse in the Khumbu region of Nepal. 1980
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  • Sherpa cooks prepare a meal in the Khumbu region of Nepal's Himalaya.
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  • A trekking group rests on the Ngozumpa Glacier, Gokyo Valley, in the Khumbu region of Nepal. 1980
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  • Trekkers camp in a herding village in the Gokyo Valley in the Khumbu region of Nepal. 1980
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  • Trekkers hike up Gokyo Ri in the Gokyo Valley in the Khumbu region of Nepal. 1980. Ngozumpa Glacier & Cholatse Pk. bkg
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  • Jay Jensen and John Fischer bivouac at 20,000' in 1980 on Baruntse Peak, Nepal
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  • Imja headwall of Baruntse.  Route follows big flute below dead center of col, then left of rock band.
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  • Back in base camp, John Fischer
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  • North Ridge of Baruntse Peak, Nepal.
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  • Jay Jensen in high winds on north ridge of 23,650' Mt. Baruntse, Nepal with Mt. Makalu in the Background.
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  • North Ridge of Baruntse Peak with Imja Valley and Lhotse in the Background.
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