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  • John Fischer ascends a rope below Glacier Point, Yosemite National Park, California.  Half Dome rises above Tenaya Canyon in the background.
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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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  • 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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  • An archaeology team led by Dr. Johan Reinhard hikes up the slopes of 22,110-foot Volcan Llullaillaco in northern Argentina, where they later found the world’s highest mummies from an ancient Inca sacrifice.
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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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  • Porters cross a suspension bridge over the Po Tsangpo River in eastern Tibet.
    TS 3044.jpg
  • MONGOLIA. Local nomads use a hand-pulled pontoon  ferry across Shishgit River near Tsaagan Nuur, in Darhad Valley.
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  • Local nomads use a hand-pulled pontoon  ferry to cross the Shishgit River near Tsaagan Nuur, in northern Mongolia's Darhad Valley.
    MGe 060704-175.jpg
  • MONGOLIA. A van used by an archaeology expedition unloads from wooden ferry across a river between Rinchenlhumbe and Tsaagan Nuur.
    MGe 060704-148.jpg
  • MONGOLIA. A van used by an archaeology expedition unloads from wooden ferry across a river between Rinchenlhumbe and Tsaagan Nuur.
    MGe 060704-130.jpg
  • MONGOLIA. A van used by an archaeology expedition boards wooden ferry across a river between Rinchenlhumbe and Tsaagan Nuur.
    MGe 060704-096.jpg
  • Members of an archaeology expedition help to pull a wooden ferry across a river between Rinchenlhumbe and Tsaagan Nuur in northern Mongolia's Darhad Valley.
    MGe 060704-064.jpg
  • Members of an archaeology expedition help to pull a wooden ferry across a river between Rinchenlhumbe and Tsaagan Nuur in northern Mongolia's Darhad Valley.
    MGe 060704-061.jpg
  • MONGOLIA. Members of an archaeology expedition pull wooden ferry across a river between Rinchenlhumbe and Tsaagan Nuur.
    MGe 060704-058.jpg
  • MONGOLIA. Members of an archaeology expedition pull wooden ferry across a river between Rinchenlhumbe and Tsaagan Nuur.
    MGe 060704-049.jpg
  • MONGOLIA. Members of an archaeology expedition pull wooden ferry across a river between Rinchenlhumbe and Tsaagan Nuur.
    MGe 060704-046.jpg
  • MONGOLIA. Members of an archaeology expedition pull wooden ferry across a river between Rinchenlhumbe and Tsaagan Nuur.
    MGe 060704-043.jpg
  • MONGOLIA. Members of an archaeology expedition pull wooden ferry across a river between Rinchenlhumbe and Tsaagan Nuur.
    MGe 060704-042.jpg
  • MONGOLIA. Members of an archaeology expedition pull wooden ferry across a river between Rinchenlhumbe and Tsaagan Nuur.
    MGe 060704-034.jpg
  • MONGOLIA. Members of an archaeology expedition pull wooden ferry across a river between Rinchenlhumbe and Tsaagan Nuur.
    MGe 060704-031.jpg
  • Mountaineer Michael Graber ascends a satellite peak of the Troll's Castle (bkg.) in Queen Maud Land, Antarctica.  Behind is the vast polar plateau.
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  • Filchner Mountains, Queen Maud Land, Antarctica. An expedition skier ascends Mount Kubus in front of Troll's Castle.
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  • Rick Ridgeway jumars up steep east face of Rakekniven Spire, Queen Maud Land, Antarctica.
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  • Rock climber Alec Tkach attempts difficult moves on a boulder In Whiskey Gulch, near Butte, Montana.
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  • Andy Selters sets up a tricky Tyrolean Traverse on the Sun Ribbon Arete of Temple Crag in the Palisade region of California's Sierra Nevada.
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  • Galen Rowell prepares to ascend a rope during the first free ascent of the East Face of Keeler Needle, near Mount Whitney in California's Sierra Nevada.
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  • Mountaineer Alex Lowe uses pulleys and mechanical advantage to haul huge bags of food and water up a 4,000-foot cliff north of the Arctic Circle on Canada's Baffin Island.
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  • MOUNTAINEERING. Alex Lowe & Mark Synnott ascend ropes on Great Sail Peak, a 4000-foot monolith north of the Arctic Circle on Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. Alex Lowe & Greg Child (MR) haul heavy loads onto ledge on Great Sail Peak, above frozen lake in Stewart Valley.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. John Catto (MR) drags big haul bags with pulley system, en route to high camp on huge Great Sail Peak, above frozen lake in Stewart Valley.
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  • Mountaineers cross the Crescent Glacier below Snowpatch Spire in Bugaboo Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada.
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  • ANTARCTICA.  Norman Vaughan, 88, exhausted as he climbs towards summit on first ascent of Mount Vaughan, a 10,302-foot mountain near the South Pole that was named for him by Richard Byrd in honor of his participation in Byrd's 1929 expedition to fly over the Pole. He summit two days before his 89th birthday. Carolyn Muegge-Vaughan background. Trans-Antarctic Mountains.
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  • ANTARCTICA.  Norman Vaughan, 88, climbs towards summit on first ascent of Mount Vaughan, a 10,302-foot mountain near the South Pole that was named for him by Richard Byrd in honor of his participation in Byrd's 1929 expedition to fly over the Pole.
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  • ANTARCTICA.  Norman Vaughan, 88, climbs steep ridge on first ascent of Mount Vaughan,  a 10,302-foot mountain, near the South Pole, that was named for him by Richard Byrd in honor of his participation in Byrd's 1929 expedition to fly over the Pole. Carolyn Muegge-Vaughan bkg.
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  • MONGOLIA. A van used by an archaeology expedition unloads from wooden ferry across a river between Rinchenlhumbe and Tsaagan Nuur.
    MGe 060704-139.jpg
  • MONGOLIA. Members of an archaeology expedition pull wooden ferry across a river between Rinchenlhumbe and Tsaagan Nuur.
    MGe 060704-111.jpg
  • MONGOLIA. Members of an archaeology expedition pull wooden ferry across a river between Rinchenlhumbe and Tsaagan Nuur.
    MGe 060704-073.jpg
  • MONGOLIA. Driver of a van for an archaeology expedition drives off wooden ferry across a river between Rinchenlhumbe and Tsaagan Nuur.
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  • MONGOLIA. Members of an archaeology expedition pull wooden ferry across a river between Rinchenlhumbe and Tsaagan Nuur.
    MGe 060704-179.jpg
  • MONGOLIA. A van used by an archaeology expedition unloads from pontoon ferry across the Shishgit River north of  Tsaagan Nuur.
    MGe 060704-177.jpg
  • MONGOLIA. Local nomads use a hand-pulled pontoon  ferry across Shishgit River near Tsaagan Nuur, in Darhad Valley.
    MGe 060704-174.jpg
  • MONGOLIA. Local nomads use a hand-pulled pontoon  ferry across Shishgit River near Tsaagan Nuur, in Darhad Valley.
    MGe 060704-173.jpg
  • MONGOLIA. A van used by an archaeology expedition unloads from wooden ferry across a river between Rinchenlhumbe and Tsaagan Nuur.
    MGe 060704-139.jpg
  • MONGOLIA. Members of an archaeology expedition pull wooden ferry across a river between Rinchenlhumbe and Tsaagan Nuur.
    MGe 060704-111.jpg
  • MONGOLIA. Members of an archaeology expedition pull wooden ferry across a river between Rinchenlhumbe and Tsaagan Nuur.
    MGe 060704-108.jpg
  • MONGOLIA. Members of an archaeology expedition pull wooden ferry across a river between Rinchenlhumbe and Tsaagan Nuur.
    MGe 060704-077.jpg
  • MONGOLIA. Members of an archaeology expedition pull wooden ferry across a river between Rinchenlhumbe and Tsaagan Nuur.
    MGe 060704-073.jpg
  • MONGOLIA. Members of an archaeology expedition pull wooden ferry across a river between Rinchenlhumbe and Tsaagan Nuur.
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  • Guides from the National Geographic Endeavor use a Zodiac raft to ferry passengers back to the ship from Whaler's Bay on Deception Island, an active caldera in Antarctica.
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  • Porters cross a suspension bridge over the Po Tsangpo River in eastern Tibet.
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  • Explorer/filmmaker David Breashears negotiates dense jungle terrain in the Tsangpo River Gorge, one of the world’s deepest canyons, in the Himalaya of remote eastern Tibet, China.
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  • Explorer/Filmaker David Breashears struggles through a forest in the world’s deepest canyon: the Tsangpo River Gorge in eastern Tibet.
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  • Mountaineer Michael Graber ascends a satellite peak of the Troll's Castle (bkg.) in Queen Maud Land, Antarctica.  Behind is the vast polar plateau.
    QM 7962.jpg
  • Rick Ridgeway jumars up to a belay station on the vertical east face of Rakekniven Spire, Queen Maud, Antarctica.
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  • A Uygar youngster stuggles with a cow at the Sunday cattle bazaar in Kashgar (Kashi), a town on the ancient Silk Road in Xinjiang, China.
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  • Mountaineers ascend "Gremlin's Cap"  in Chile's Cordillera Sarmiento, a previously unexplored Patagonian range.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. Mark Synnott, exhausted by hauling huge bags up Great Sail Peak, an Arctic big wall climb above Stewart Valley. Jared Ogden helps. (MR)
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. Mark Synnott (MR) carries a heavy load onto ledge on Great Sail Peak, above frozen lake in Stewart Valley.
    BI 4528.jpg
  • A Big Wall climber hauls heavy bags up an Arctic cliff on Baffin Island.
    BI 4476.jpg
  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. Alex Lowe (MR) hauls loads to a high camp on huge Great Sail Peak, above frozen lake in Stewart Valley.
    BI 4443.jpg
  • ANTARCTICA. 88-year old Norman Vaughan, exhausted, near summit of mountain named for him by Richard Byrd in 1929.
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  • ANTARCTICA, Mount Vinson Expedition. Dr. Lis Densmore (MR) pulls a heavy sled to Camp One, en route to becoming first woman to climb continent's 16 058-foot highest mountain. 15,918-foot Mount Tyree (third highest) is in background.  Ellsworth Mountains.
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  • Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica. A polar tourist pretends to pull a cruise ship.
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