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  • Weather-beaten Bristlecone Pines survive the arid, high altitude climate of California's White Mountains in the U.S. Forest Service's Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest.
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  • A weather-beaten Bristlecone Pine survives the arid, high altitude climate of California's White Mountains in the U.S. Forest Service's Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest.
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  • A weather-beaten Bristlecone Pine survives the arid, high altitude climate of California's White Mountains in the U.S. Forest Service's Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest.
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  • The moon rises over a weather-beaten Bristlecone Pine snag, high in California's White Mountains.
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  • A hiker runs past ancient Bristlecone Pines.
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  • A weather-beaten Bristlecone Pine survives on the arid, high altitude slopes Boundary Peak, the highest summit in Nevada.  Some bristlecone have lived more than 4800 years and are the oldest non-clonal living things.
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  • A weather-beaten Bristlecone Pine survives the arid, high altitude climate below 13,146-foot Boundary Peak, the highest summit in Nevada.  Some bristlecone have lived more than 4800 years and are the oldest non-clonal living things.
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  • The sun sets over the the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest in California's rugged White Mountains. Behind is the Owens Valley and the Palisade region of the eastern Sierra Nevada,.
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  • The wind-twisted trunk of a dead Bristlecone Pine sits atop an arid mountain in the  Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest in California's rugged White Mountains.
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  • The wind-twisted trunk of a dead Bristlecone Pine sits atop an arid mountain in the  Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest in California's rugged White Mountains.
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  • The wind-twisted trunk of a dead Bristlecone Pine sits atop an arid mountain in the  Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest in California's rugged White Mountains.
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  • The wind-twisted trunk of a dead Bristlecone Pine sits atop an arid mountain in the  Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest in California's rugged White Mountains.
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  • The wind-twisted trunk of a dead Bristlecone Pine sits atop an arid mountain in the  Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest in California's rugged White Mountains.
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  • The wind-twisted trunk of a dead Bristlecone Pine sits atop an arid mountain in the  Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest in California's rugged White Mountains.
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  • A dying Bristlecone Pine stands in the Patriarch Grove of the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest in California's White Mountains, above Bishop.
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  • The moon rises behind an ancient bristlecone pine snag, high in the White Mountains above Bishop, California.
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  • The sun sets over the the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest in California's rugged White Mountains. Behind is the Owens Valley and the Palisade region of the eastern Sierra Nevada,.
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  • The sun sets over the the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest in California's rugged White Mountains. Behind is the Owens Valley and the Palisade region of the eastern Sierra Nevada,.
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  • The sun sets over the the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest in California's rugged White Mountains. Behind is the Owens Valley and the Palisade region of the eastern Sierra Nevada,.
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  • The sun sets over the the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest in California's rugged White Mountains.
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  • The sun sets over the the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest in California's rugged White Mountains.  Behind is the Owens Valley and eastern Sierra Nevada.
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  • The wind-twisted trunk of a dead Bristlecone Pine sits atop an arid mountain in the  Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest in California's rugged White Mountains.
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  • The wind-twisted trunk of a dead Bristlecone Pine sits atop an arid mountain in the  Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest in California's rugged White Mountains.
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  • The wind-twisted trunk of a dead Bristlecone Pine sits atop an arid mountain in the  Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest in California's rugged White Mountains.
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  • The wind-twisted trunk of a dead Bristlecone Pine sits atop an arid mountain in the  Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest in California's rugged White Mountains.
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  • The wind-twisted trunk of a dead Bristlecone Pine sits atop an arid mountain in the  Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest in California's rugged White Mountains.
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  • The moon rises behind an ancient bristlecone pine snag, high in the White Mountains above Bishop, California.
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  • The sun sets over the the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest in California's rugged White Mountains. Behind is the Owens Valley and the Palisade region of the eastern Sierra Nevada,.
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  • The sun sets over the the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest in California's rugged White Mountains.
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  • The wind-twisted trunk of a dead Bristlecone Pine sits atop an arid mountain in the  Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest in California's rugged White Mountains.
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  • Ancient tree survives after 1000s of years in high, hostile setting.
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  • A tent in the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest of California's White Mountains overlooks the town of Bishop and the Palisade region of the eastern Sierra Nevada.
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  • Bristlecone pines, among world's oldest living trees, survive above 11,000 feet elevation in the Patriarch Grove in the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest in California's White Mountains.
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  • Bristlecone pines, among world's oldest living trees, survive above 11,000 feet elevation in the Patriarch Grove in the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest in California's White Mountains.
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  • Bristlecone pines, among world's oldest living trees, survive above 11,000 feet elevation in the Patriarch Grove in the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest in California's White Mountains.
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  • Bristlecone pines, among world's oldest living trees, survive above 11,000 feet elevation in the Patriarch Grove in the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest in California's White Mountains.
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  • Bristlecone pines, among world's oldest living trees, survive above 11,000 feet elevation in the Patriarch Grove in the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest in California's White Mountains.
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  • Bristlecone pines, among world's oldest living trees, survive above 11,000 feet elevation in the Patriarch Grove in the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest in California's White Mountains.
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  • Bristlecone pines, among world's oldest living trees, survive above 11,000 feet elevation in the Patriarch Grove in the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest in California's White Mountains.
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  • Bristlecone pines, among world's oldest living trees, survive above 11,000 feet elevation in the Patriarch Grove in the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest in California's White Mountains.
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  • Bristlecone pines, among world's oldest living trees, survive above 11,000 feet elevation in the Patriarch Grove in the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest in California's White Mountains.
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  • Bristlecone pines, among world's oldest living trees, survive above 11,000 feet elevation in the Patriarch Grove in the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest in California's White Mountains.
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  • Bristlecone pines, among world's oldest living trees, survive above 11,000 feet elevation in the Patriarch Grove in the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest in California's White Mountains.
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  • Bristlecone pines, among world's oldest living trees, survive above 11,000 feet elevation in the Patriarch Grove in the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest in California's White Mountains.
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  • Bristlecone pines, among world's oldest living trees, survive above 11,000 feet elevation in the Patriarch Grove in the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest in California's White Mountains.
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  • Bristlecone pines, among world's oldest living trees, survive above 11,000 feet elevation in the Patriarch Grove in the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest in California's White Mountains.
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  • Bristlecone pines, among world's oldest living trees, survive above 11,000 feet elevation in the Patriarch Grove in the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest in California's White Mountains.
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  • Bristlecone pines, among world's oldest living trees, survive above 11,000 feet elevation in the Patriarch Grove in the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest in California's White Mountains.
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  • Bristlecone pines, among world's oldest living trees, survive above 11,000 feet elevation in the Patriarch Grove in the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest in California's White Mountains.
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  • Bristlecone pines, among world's oldest living trees, survive above 11,000 feet elevation in the Patriarch Grove in the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest in California's White Mountains.
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  • Bristlecone pines, among world's oldest living trees, survive above 11,000 feet elevation in the Patriarch Grove in the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest in California's White Mountains.
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  • Bristlecone pines, among world's oldest living trees, survive above 11,000 feet elevation in the Patriarch Grove in the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest in California's White Mountains.
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  • Bristlecone pines, among world's oldest living trees, survive above 11,000 feet elevation in the Patriarch Grove in the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest in California's White Mountains.
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  • Bristlecone pines, among world's oldest living trees, survive above 11,000 feet elevation in the Patriarch Grove in the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest in California's White Mountains.
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  • Bristlecone pines, among world's oldest living trees, survive above 11,000 feet elevation in the Patriarch Grove in the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest in California's White Mountains.
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  • Bristlecone pines, among world's oldest living trees, survive above 11,000 feet elevation in the Patriarch Grove in the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest in California's White Mountains.
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  • Bristlecone pines, among world's oldest living trees, survive above 11,000 feet elevation in the Patriarch Grove in the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest in California's White Mountains.
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  • Bristlecone pines, among world's oldest living trees, survive above 11,000 feet elevation in the Patriarch Grove in the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest in California's White Mountains.
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  • Ancient Anasazi pottery on display at the visitor center for Canyon of the Ancients Natonal Monument near Cortez, Colorado.
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  • Ancient Anasazi pottery on display at the visitor center for Canyon of the Ancients Natonal Monument near Cortez, Colorado.
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  • Ancient Anasazi pottery on display at the visitor center for Canyon of the Ancients Natonal Monument near Cortez, Colorado.
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  • Ancient Anasazi pottery on display at the visitor center for Canyon of the Ancients Natonal Monument near Cortez, Colorado.
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  • ANCIENT BRISTLECONE PINE FOREST, California.  Sunset glows on a tree trunk that is likely several thousand years old, growing atop the harsh, high-altitude White Mountains near Bishop.
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  • Sunset lights the weathered trunks of an ancient Bristlecone Pine in California's White Mountains.  Bristleones are earth's oldest living trees and this one might be up to 4,000 years old.
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  • Ancient Anasazi pottery on display at the visitor center for Canyon of the Ancients Natonal Monument near Cortez, Colorado.
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  • Ancient Anasazi pottery on display at the visitor center for Canyon of the Ancients Natonal Monument near Cortez, Colorado.
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  • A photographer takes pictures of fall-colored aspens in Bishop Creek Canyon in the eastern Sierra Nevada above Bishop, California.
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  • A photographer takes pictures of fall-colored aspens in Bishop Creek Canyon in the eastern Sierra Nevada above Bishop, California.
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  • The moon rises above a photographer in California's rugged White Mountains above Bishop, California.
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  • A photographer takes pictures of fall-colored aspens in Bishop Creek Canyon in the eastern Sierra Nevada above Bishop, California.
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  • TIBET, China. Ancient fort in southeastern Tibet.
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  • Ladakh, India. Fortress & monastery above capital city of Leh, an ancient trade center.
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  • NEPAL, Himalaya. Marpha, an ancient trading village on salt trading route through Kali Gandaki gorge between Annapurna & Dhaulagiri.
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  • Terraces and ancient buildings at Machu Picchu.
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  • An archaeologist inspects an ancient Chachapoyan circular house.  at Talape, Peru.
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  • A ski mountaineer hikes down past an ancient Bristlecone Pine tree.
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  • Ancient Native American drawings on volcanic tuff in CA's Owens Valley, Sierra bkg.
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  • Gyantse, Tibet, People's Republic of China. An ancient hilltop fort; British damaged in 1904, by China in 1960's.
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  • A hiker scrambles below an ancient, wind-twisted Bristlecone Pine snag in the White Mountains near the Nevada/California border.  Behind is 13,140' Boundary Peak, highest mountain in Nevada.
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  • Ancient structures built by mysterious means by Inca masons.
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  • A Bedouin youngster rides a burro down ancient Nabataean steps above Petra, Jordan.
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  • Bristlecone snag in White Mountains overlooks Sierra Nevada.
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  • A Bristlecone Pine in California's White Mountains juxtaposes with the Palisade Glacier region of the adjacent Sierra Nevada, across the dramatic Owens Valley.
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  • Mysterious Inca structures spread below Mount Huayna Picchu
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  • Tree roots entangle Inca ruins in the upper Amazon cloud forests.
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  • Entrance to huge Chachapoyan fort, predating Peru's Inca culture.
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  • Stone wall at Chachapoyan fort at Cuelap pre-dates the Inca.
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  • A Tibetan Buddhist monk stands on the roof of fortress-like Yumbu Lakang, the oldest castle  in Tibet, atop a hill near Tsedang.
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  • CHINA, TIBET. Fortress-like Yumbu Lakang, the oldest castle remaining in Tibet, atop a hill near Tsedang.
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  • Machu Picchu, an Inca ruin below Mount Huayna Picchu.
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  • Stone walls of Chachapoyan fort at Cuelap pre-date the Inca.
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  • Tourists walk past "The Treasury," a signature feature of Petra, a World Heritage Site in Jordan.
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  • A Tibetan Buddhist monk stands on the roof of fortress-like Yumbu Lakang, the oldest castle  in Tibet, atop a hill near Tsedang.
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  • Fortress-like Yumbu Lakang, the oldest castle in Tibet, towers near Tsedang.
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  • A key to the old Tibetan Salt trade with India was the Kali Gandaki River and the gorge it carved through the Himalaya. Here, at Kagbeni village on the rain-shadowed north side,  it flows out of the  long-forbidden Kingdom of Mustang.
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  • Barley fields and an ancient village in the Himalayan rainshadow near Muktinath, north of Annapurna in Nepal
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  • MONGOLIA, Darhad Valley.  Offerings of scarves and money near an "ovo" monument and ancient petroglyphs above Lake Dood Noor.  This practice is a blend of Tibetan Buddhism, Animism and Shamanism
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  • MONGOLIA, Darhad Valley.  Offerings of scarves and money near an "ovo" monument and ancient petroglyphs above Lake Dood Noor.  This practice is a blend of Tibetan Buddhism, Animism and Shamanism
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  • Nomadic herders wrestle at a naadam festival on a remote pass near Muren, Mongolia. This ancient sport is immensely popular across the country and many youngsters do it every day, just for fun.
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  • A nomadic herder prepares to wrestle at a naadam festival on a remote pass near Muren, Mongolia. This ancient sport is immensely popular across the country, and legend says that men wear their unique costumes to prove that they are not women, after an early empress humiliated her warriors by beating them. Here the competitor is mimicking a bird, a traditional ritual.
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