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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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  • MOUNTAINEERING, SPITSBERGEN, Norway. Jay Jensen (MR) rewarms from sub-zero polar cold on ski expedition at 80 degrees north latitude.
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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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  • Despite winter cold, a Russian airport worker tends a plane on Severnaya Zemlya, an archipeligo far north of Siberia.
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  • Mountaineer Rick Ridgeway huddles against the cold during a forced bivouac in Queen Maud Land, Antarctica.
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  • Arctic Ocean, Nunavut, Canada. A dog musher and his team run across the frozen ocean near Gjoa Haven.	color image,photography,outdoors,day,one person,front view,caucasian appearance,one mid adult man only,full length,medium group of animals,sled dogs,sled,dogsleds,sledding,huskies,running,running,pulling,working animals,ice,arctic ocean,nunavut,canada,gjoa haven,mid adult,adventure,musher,sun,sky,frozen,cold,copy space,team,teamwork,sunlight,shadows,Paul Pregont
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  • Ben Wiltsie (MR) skis aerial manouvers and flips in half pipe in terrain park at Big Sky Ski Resort, near Bozeman, Montana. 11,166-foot Lone Mountain is in bkg. of most pictures.
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  • SKIING. Ben Wiltsie (MR) skis aerial manouvers and flips in half pipe in terrain park at Big Sky Ski Resort, near Bozeman, Montana.
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  • Ben Wiltsie (MR) skis aerial manouvers and flips in half pipe in terrain park at Big Sky Ski Resort, near Bozeman, Montana. 11,166-foot Lone Mountain is in bkg. of most pictures.
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  • Ben Wiltsie (MR) skis aerial manouvers and flips in half pipe in terrain park at Big Sky Ski Resort, near Bozeman, Montana. 11,166-foot Lone Mountain is in bkg. of most pictures.
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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, 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, 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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  • 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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  • Allan Pietrasanta sits by a wood stove in a cabin on Lake of the Woods, Ontario, Canada.
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  • Clouds from a clearing winter storm swirl over the Mono Craters, a group of relatively young volcanoes east of the Sierra Nevada crest in California.
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  • Clouds from a clearing winter storm swirl over Mono Lake, a saline inland sea east of the Sierra Nevada crest in California. For the last several decades Mono Lake was severely threatened by Los Angeles Department of Water and Power diversions of inflowing streams into an aqueduct.  Now, due to a court order that limits water diversion, the lake has slowly begun refilling.
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  • A skier checks his goggles on a powder day at Montana's Big Sky Resort.
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  • Camped atop a 16,000+ foot pass, ski mountaineer Allan Pietrasanta looks back at some of the gorges his team followed during an expedition across India's Great Himalaya Range from Ladakh to Kashmir.  Just hours later, on the other side of the pass, the team was caught in an avalanche and the photographer crushed two vertebrae, but the group finished their journey under their own power.
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  • A mountaineer camps atop a 16,000+ foot pass near the end of an expedition to ski from Ladakh to Kashmir across India's Great Himalaya Range.  Later that day the team was avalanched over a cliff on the other side of the pass and the photographer crushed two vertebrae, but the team managed to finish the expedition successfully under their own power.
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  • CORDILLERA SARMIENTO EXPED., Tyler Van Arsdell digs out storm-choked snow cave (Patagonia,Chile). Peter Garber bkg.(MR)
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. Inuit snowmobiles pull mountaineering expedition members across frozen lake in remote Stewart Valley, north of Clyde River.  The temperature is below zero, F, and Sail Peaks are in background.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. Expedition snowmobiles into Stewart Valley, a setting of huge polar cliffs.
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  • An Inuit hunter pokes his harpoon at an iceberg frozen into the sea ice of Baffin Bay, west of Baffin Island in Nunavut, Canada.  This source of remarkably pure water has drifted in from the rapidly melting icecap of Greenland.
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  • Young Inuit hunter Ben Illuaq aims his shotgun at a snowshoe on the tundra of Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada.
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  • Inuit hunters Joannasie Apak and Apitak Iqaqrialu from Clyde River hamlet on Baffin Island, melt snow for tea on their Coleman Stove as they take a break cross the frozen sea ice of Baffin Bay.  Behind them is an iceberg trapped by the winter freeze.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, NUNAVUT, CANADA. Inuit guides, snowmobiles & Great Sail Peak expedition members beside icebergs on frozen Baffin Bay.
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  • Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada. Inuit hunter, Jayko Apak (MR) waits for seals on ice floe near Clyde River.
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  • The Argentine supply ship Bahia Paraiso (which sank in 1987) rests at anchor near Esperanza Base at Hope Bay on the Antarctic Peninsula.
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  • A ski mountaineer takes pictures from the Calley Glacier on the Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica.  Behind is a summit sometimes called "Wiltsie's Peak."
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  • Icebergs float near the Loubet Coast on the Antarctic Peninsula.
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  • An iceberg floats below a glacier on the Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica.
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  • An iceberg floats in the Peltier Channel below the Fief Range on Wiencke Island, Antarctica.
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  • A trekker relaxes  below Annapurna South in the Annapurna Sanctuary, Nepal.
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  • Viewed from Annapurna Sanctuary, the sun sets on 22,943-foot Machhapuchhare Peak in the Annapurna Massif in Nepal's Himalaya Mountains.
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  • A youngster rests beside millet fierlds surrounding his family's hut ner Gandrung, Nepal.
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  • NEPAL, HIMALAYA. 6997-meter Machhapuchhare Peak above rice paddies in Pokhara Valley.
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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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  • 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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  • 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, 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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  • A reindeer caravan herded by the last nomadic Komi clan crosses the tundra near Nizhnyaya  Pesha, in the Russian Arctic.
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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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  • Allan Pietrasanta sits by a wood stove in a cabin on Lake of the Woods, Ontario, Canada.
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  • Icicles hang for an oceanside cliff on arctic Spitsbergen Island in Svalbard archipelago, Norway.
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  • Midnight sun creeps across a mountain range on Norway's Spitsbergen Island, only 600 miles from the North Pole.
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  • INTERNATIONAL ARCTIC PROJECT. Victor Boyarsky (MR) starts day of dog sledding on frozen Arctic Ocean with a snow bath, despite frigid temperatures.
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  • INTERNATIONAL ARCTIC PROJECT. Will Steger's sled dogs run through new snow near North Pole on Arctic Ocean, during 1995 expedition from Russia to Canada.
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  • Reinhold & Hubert Messner test sleds amidst pressure ridges before attempting to cross the Arctic Ocean from Severnaya Zemlya, Russia, to Canada, via the North Pole. Background mist rises from open water leads. Temperature is about minus 35 degrees F.
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  • Allan Pietrasanta, Gordon Wiltsie & Jay Jensen camp near the summit of Gulol Pass in Kashmir, just before getting avalanched in their ski mountaineering traverse of India's Great Himalaya Range.
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  • A mountaineer cooks in a remote Patagonian snow cave.
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  • Apitak Iqaqrialu, an Inuit elder, sits on frozen tundra north of the Arctic Circle on Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. Inuit guides fix snowmobile in the field with simple tools & bare hands, despite subzero tempertures.
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  • An Inuit hunter waits by a seal breathing hole north of Baffin Island.
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  • ANTARCTICA. Alex Lowe (MR) climbs Mount Bearskin (2850m) in the Ellsworth Mountains.  Mount Tyree (4852m), the continent's 2nd highest mountain is in background on right and Mount Vinson (4897m), the highest massif, is in left background.
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  • ANTARCTICA. Alex Lowe (MR) climbs Mount Bearskin (2850m) in the Ellsworth Mountains.  Mount Tyree (4852m), the continent's 2nd highest mountain is in background on right and Mount Vinson (4897m), the highest massif, is in left background.
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  • 88-year old Norman Vaughan exhausted after first ascent of an Antarctic mountain named after him (Mount Vaughan.)
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  • Brabant Island rises behind the Gerlache Strait and Calley Glacier on the Antarctic Peninsula.  Image taken from summit of Mount Berry.
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  • ANTARCTICA, Mike Farny (MR), taking a snow bath, Calley Glacier, Antarctic Peninsula
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  • An iceberg floats near the Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica.
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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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  • Macchapucchare Peak glows in a sunset over the Himalaya in Nepal.
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  • NEPAL, HIMALAYA. Sunset on 6997-meter Machhapuchhare Peak ("The Fish Tail") in Annapurna massif above Pokhara.
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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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  • Manang Valley, north of Annapurna in Nepal.
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  • Manang Valley, north of Annapurna in Nepal.
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  • Manang Valley, north of Annapurna in Nepal.
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  • Muktinath Valley, Nepal.
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  • Muktinath Valley, Nepal.
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  • Arid, rain-shadowed hiss stretch north of the Annapurna Massif in Nepal.
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  • A village in the Kali Gandaki Valley in Nepal
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  • A thakali woman on the trail in the Kali Gandaki Valley, Nepal
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  • Trekkers view Annapurna South from Poon Hill, Nepal.
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  • Trekkers visit the Annapurna Sanctuary in the Nepal Himalaya.
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  • Sherpa Pasang Kami poses in front of the Annupurna South Face, a climb for which he was the climbing sirdar.
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  • A mountain rises above the Annapurna Sanctuary, Nepal.
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  • Village boy near Ghandrung, Nepal.
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  • A trailside merchants sells homemade handicrafts to trekkers in Muktinath, Nepal.
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  • Lenticular clouds glow in a sunset over the Lamar Valley in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
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  • Ben Wiltsie (MR) skis aerial manouvers and flips in half pipe in terrain park at Big Sky Ski Resort, near Bozeman, Montana. 11,166-foot Lone Mountain is in bkg. of most pictures.
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  • Russian women walk below an ornately carved log building in the northern port city of Arkhangel'sk.
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  • In Snopa village, north of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a man chops wood to heat his family's home.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, Arthum Khantazeski, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder, navigates his sled across a half-melted tundra bog as he steers the herd towards its next destination.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, Arthum Khantazeski, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder, navigates his sled across a half-melted tundra bog as he steers the herd towards its next destination.
    RUe 070423-149.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a few men from the last nomadic clan of Komi reindeer herders live on the land (without tents), while waiting for cows in the herd to calve.  Left to right: Vasily Terentév, Arthum Khantazeski, Vasily Chuprov, Alexei Semyashkin, and Alexei Vauchesky.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, Arthum Khantazeski, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder, approaches the one of the spring's first newborn calves to check its health.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a wayward dog from a nearby community lies skinned and dead after chasing reindeer herded by the nomadic Komi people.
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  • Because antlers are valuable for Chinese medicine, Arthum Khantazeski, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder who lives north of the Arctic Circle in Russia, saws one off before the animal drops it naturally while grazing in the wild.  According to Arthum, this is not painful.
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  • Much of the Russian Arctic tundra is comprised of mosses, lichens and tiny lingonberry bushes. The appropriately-named white, multi-branched “reindeer lichen,” (shown here) is a staple for its namesake and is sometime mistakenly called "reindeer moss,"
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  • A detail of a reindeer’s foot shows the broad hooves and hair that help it to stay atop the snow.
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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.
    RUe 070416-077.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, members of the last remaining nomadic Komi clan herd reindeer into a temporary pen where they can select animals to pull their sleds.
    RUe 070416-064.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, members of the last nomadic Komi clan herd reindeer into a temporary pen where they can select animals to pull their sleds.
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