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  • Camp I on Baruntse Peak, Nepal
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  • Mount Everest rises above clouds in the Khumbu region of Nepal. 1980.  Lhotse right
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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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  • Civil war refugees at Mirpur Destitute Camp near Dhaka, Bangladesh, 1977.
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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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  • A member of the ruling junta in Bangladesh reviews Bengali youth groups  celebrating thier recent independence from Pakistan.  1977 image.
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  • Gordon Wiltsie helps to clean up a fish pond at Mirpur Destitute Camp, 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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  • 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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  • Homeless village children from Bangladesh line up for a ration of milk and survival biscuits at  Mirpur Destitute Camp near Dhaka, 1977.  Most of their mothers had left destitute, widowed and violated  by  back-to -back cyclone and  brutal 1971 war of independence
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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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  • 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 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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  • 20,000' in a snow cave on Baruntse, 1980
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  • Gordon Wiltsie at 20,000' on Mount Baruntse, Nepal, 1980. Photo by Jay Jensen
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  • Mountaineers on Baruntse Peak, Nepal
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  • Heavy snowstorm while belaying an ice climber, Himalaya, Nepal
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  • Camp I on Baruntse Peak, Nepal
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  • Camp I on Baruntse Peak, Nepal
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  • Amphu Glacier, Nepal
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  • Trekkers visit the Annapurna Sanctuary in the Nepal Himalaya.
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  • Risking a dousing north of the Arctic Circle in Russia, Alexei Semyashkin, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder,  steers his sled straight through a meltwater bog on the tundra near Snopa village.
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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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  • As rapidly-approaching spring melts snow on the arctic Russian tundra, Alexei Semyashkin, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder,  charges with his team through a pool atop the permafrost.  Within weeks these pools will generate enough mosquitoes to drive both men and reindeer nearly insane, at which point they will migrate again to drier mountains further north.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, men from the last nomadic clan of Komi reindeer herders eat and drink in their chum (tepee), waiting for the calving season to begin. Left to right:  Alexei Semyashkin , Alexei Vauchesky, Arthum Khantazeski, and Fyodor “Fedya” Vanutá (who is actually Nenet, not Komi, and unrelated to anyone else).
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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, 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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  • 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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  • A woman shops in an outdoor market in the northern port city of Arkhangel'sk Russia
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  • Moscow, Russia.  Clock tower beside Kremlin at Red Square.
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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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  • in Kathmandu, Nepal, 1996.
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  • Pigeons fly between pagoda roofs in Kathmandu Durbar Square, Nepal, 1986.
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  • A Hindu Yogi practices his craft at Pashupatinath Temple in Kathmandu, Nepal, 1986.
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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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  • CHINA, TIBET. Meat merchant on a pedicab rides his wares to market past Lhasa's Potala Palace, former home of Dalai Lama.
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  • Dr. Peter Hackett in 1980, near the Himalayan Rescue Association clinic he helped to build in Pheriche village, Khumbu region, Nepal
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  • INDIA, Kashmir. Hindu worshippers leave offerings (prasad) in Amarnath Cave, after 5-day Himalayan pilgrimage to see ice lingam here.
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  • Kashmiri porters carry a wealthy Hindu woman in a sedan chair during a 5-day Himalayan pilgrimage to worship Shiva at Amarnath Cave.
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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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  • NEPAL, HIMALAYA. Sunset on 6997-meter Machhapuchhare Peak ("The Fish Tail") in Annapurna massif above Pokhara.
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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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  • Feroz, A college student in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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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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  • 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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  • Mountaineer at 20,000' on the North Ridge of Baruntse Peak in the Khumbu region of Nepal
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  • Mountaineer on Baruntse peak, Himalaya, Nepal
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  • Advanced base camp Baruntse, 1980
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  • Trekkers stop at a teahouse in the Kali Gandaki Valley, Nepal
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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 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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  • Moscow, Russia.  Red Square and  St. Basil's Cathedral.
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  • Horses graze by a river in the Darhad Valley, Mongolia, overlooked by the Horidal Saridag Mountains.
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  • Children lead bactrian camels in Mongolia's Gobi Desert.
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  • A young nomad helps to shear the family's sheep near Dalanzadgad in the Gobi Desert, Mongolia.
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  • Gobi Desert, Mongolia.
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  • A Mongolian throat singer performs at a concert in Ulaanbaatar.
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  • A youngster shoots pool outside the national Naadam festival stadium in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
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  • Young drink vendors sell Coca Cola at the national Naadam festival in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
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  • Buddhist Tsam dancers dressed as Tsagaan Uuvgon ("old white man") and Buga (the deer) , wait to perform at the national naadam festival in Ulaanbaator, Mongolia.
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  • A Buddhist Tsam dancer waits to perform at the national naadam festival in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
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  • Acrobats perform at a Naadam festival in Zuunmod, Mongolia, near Ullanbaator.
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