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  • Young Explorer grantee Andy Maser presents some of his work at the 2012 National Geographic Expeditions Council meeting in the formal boardroom at  Society headquarters in Washington DC. Also pictured are Michael K. "Nick" Nichols, Rick Ridgeway and Donovan Webster.
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  • While relaxing in her office, National Geographic Expeditions Council director Rebecca Martin talks with her Advisory Board members, including Anne Giesecke (L).
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  • Rick Ridgeway relaxes in a tent during an expedition to Queen Maud Land, Antarctica.
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  • Expedition skiers climb Nemtinov Peak above Tunabreen Glacier.
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  • Northwest Territories, Canada. A dogsledding expedition camps on Great Slave Lake.
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  • Northwest Territories, Canada. A dogsledding expedition sets up camp on Great Slave Lake.
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  • Greg Child rides in a komatik sled pulled by a snowmobile, en route to a climbing expedition on Great Sail Peak north of the Arctic Circle on Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada.
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  • Expedition members take a break during a ski tour in Queen Maud Land, Antarctica.
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  • 3,000 feet above the ground on a huge, overhanging granite cliff - the northernmost big wall climb yet attempted at the time - mountaineer Greg Child pounds a piton into a thin crack that is the only route upwards.  He is lit by frigid midnight sun, north of the Arctic Circle, and progress was so slow that the team required nearly a month to complete the route.
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  • National Geographic Headquarters, Washington, DC.
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  • National Geographic Headquarters, Washington, DC.
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  • National Geographic Headquarters, Washington, DC.
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  • National Geographic Headquarters, Washington, DC.
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  • National Geographic Headquarters, Washington, DC.
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  • National Geographic Headquarters, Washington, DC.
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  • National Geographic Headquarters, Washington, DC.
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  • National Geographic Headquarters, Washington, DC.
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  • National Geographic Headquarters, Washington, DC.
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  • Painting of the founders of the National Geographic Society that hangs in the old board room of the Society.
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  • National Geographic Headquarters, Washington, DC.
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  • National Geographic Headquarters, Washington, DC.
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  • Mushers rescue a dog from an open water lead on the frozen Arctic Ocean.
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  • Great Slave Lake, Northwest Territories, Canada.	A dog team mushes across frozen Great Slave Lake.
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  • MOUNTAINEERING, Jared Ogden, Cirque of the Unclimbables, NWT, Canada.
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  • Mark Newcomb (MR) writes in his journal in a camp by Lake Karakul in the Pamir Mountains of Xinjiang, China.
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  • While Mark Newcomb (MR) waits above, Sam Lightner rappels off huge Shipton's Arch in the Kara Tagh Mountains near Kashgar and the Taklimakan Desert. (The figures are almost too small too see.)
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  • CHINA, Xinjiang Province.  Tiny climbers (MR) stand atop huge Shipton's Arch in Kara Tagh Mountains near Kashgar & Taklimakan Desert.
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  • Cordillera Sarmiento, Patagonian range, Patagonia, Chile. Snow bound in a tent at base camp.
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  • A mountaineer ascends a previously unexplored Chilean range.
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  • 3,000 feet above the ground on a huge, overhanging granite cliff - the northernmost big wall climb yet attempted at the time - mountaineer Greg Child pounds a piton into a thin crack that is the only route upwards.  He is lit by frigid midnight sun, north of the Arctic Circle, and progress was so slow that the team required nearly a month to complete the route.
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  • A rock climber belays above foggy Stewart Valley, high on Great Sail Peak.
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  • FALKLAND ISLANDS. Gorse bushes on Carcass Island. National Geographic "Endeavor" in background.
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  • National Geographic Headquarters, Washington, DC.
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  • Expedition leaders Will Steger & Jean-Louis Etienne play at the ceremonial South Pole, halfway through the 1989-1990 Trans-Antarctica Expedition.
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  • Members of the 1989-1990 Trans-Antarctica Expedition pose for pictures at the ceremonial South Pole.  From left to right: Keizo Funatsu (Japan), Jean-Louis Etienne (France), Will Steger (USA), Qin Dahe (China), Geoff Somers (UK), and Victor Boyarsky (USSR).
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  • Dogsleds from the 1989-1990 Trans-Antarctica Expedition navigate across the vast polar plateau near the South Pole.  In the distant background is USA's Amundsen-Scott science base.
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  • Geoff Somers reads mail from home after reaching the South Pole, about halfway through the 1989-1990 Trans-Antarctica Expedition.
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  • Having reached the South Pole, about halfway through the 1989-1990 Trans-Antarctica Expedition, Jean-Louis Etienne and Victor Boyarsky attempt to radio news to the outside world.
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  • Veteran Russian polar explorer, Victor Boyarsky, leads the 1989-1990 Trans-Antarctica Expedition across the vast polar plateau.
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  • Members of the 1989-1990 Trans-Antarctica Expedition clown for a picture at the ceremonial South Pole.
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  • Jean-Louis Etienne & Victor Boyarsky relax in their tent at the South Pole, halfway through the 1989-1990 Trans-Antarctica Expedition.
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  • Will Steger teases one of his dogs with one of several hams donated to the canines by staff at America's Amundsen-Scott science base at the South Pole, about halfway through the 1989-1990 Trans-Antarctica Expedition.
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  • Keizo Funatsu melts snow for water in his tent at the South Pole, halfway through the 1989-1990 Trans-Antarctica Expedition.
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  • CORDILLERA SARMIENTO EXPEDITION, Patagonia, Chile. Team endures storm squalls in Taraba Sound while fishing to supplement low expedition food supplies. LtoR: Philip Lloyd, Tyler Van Arsdell, Rob Hart (MR)
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  • Members of the 1989-1990 Trans-Antarctica Expedition pose for sponsor pictures at the ceremonial South Pole, about halfway through their journey.
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  • Will Steger fills water bottles with melted snow while Qin Dahe sips tea in their tent at the South Pole, about halfway through the 1989-1990 Trans-Antarctica Expedition.
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  • Victor Boyarsky writes the latitude and longitude on his tent at the South Pole, about halfway through the 1989-1990 Trans-Antarctica Expedition.  (The latitude does not read an exact 90 degrees south because he is camped a few hundred meters from the true Pole.
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  • Polar explorer Will Steger looks at a vast horizon beyond the South Pole, about halfway through the 1989-1990 Trans-Antarctica Expedition.
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  • Dog teams from the 1989-1990 Trans-Antarctica Expedition cross the vast polar plateau, near the South Pole.
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  • Dog teams from the 1989-1990 Trans-Antarctica Expedition navigate across the vast polar plateau near the South Pole,
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  • A sled dog yawns in a camp at the South Pole, about halfway through the 1989-1990 Trans-Antarctica Expedition.
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  • ARCTIC BLAST EXPEDITION.  Dogsled crosses sea ice east of King William Island, Nunavut, Canada (MR).
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  • ANTARCTICA, Mount Vaughan Expedition. 88-year old Norman Vaughan below 10,302' Mount Vaughan, located less than 300 miles from South Pole and named for Norman in 1929 by explorer Richard Byrd. Norman climbed the peak in December 1994, 2 days shy of his 89th birthday.
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  • Donovan Webster and Rick Ridgeway (L) discuss a proposal at the 2011 National Geographic Expeditions Council meeting in the formal boardroom at the Society headquarters in Washington DC.
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  • The National Geographic Expeditions Council Advisory Board meets in the formal boardroom at the Society headquarters in Washington DC.
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  • Expedition members exult after the first ascent of the north face of Great Sail Peak, an arctic big wall climb on Canada's Baffin Island.
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  • Expedition sirdar Tsering Ongchu takes  a rest on Imja Glacier
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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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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. Expedition snowmobiles into Stewart Valley, a setting of huge polar cliffs.
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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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  • ANTARCTICA, Mike Sharp navigates across featureless snow with sextant readings off sun while guiding South Pole Ski Expedition in 1988.
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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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  • Mountaineers stand below the highest peaks of Chile's previously unexplored Cordillera Sarmiento at the tip of Patagonia's southern icecap (Hielo Sur.)
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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. Alex Lowe pushes Inuit snowmobile carrying expedition equipment to Great Sail Peak.
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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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  • WILL STEGER in -40 degree temperatures off coast of Severnaya Zemlya (Russia), en route to Canada via the frozen Arctic Ocean & North Pole, International Arctic Project dogsled expedition.
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  • Members of a National Geographic archaeology expedition cross Choquetecarpo Pass (5100+ meters) in Peru's Cordillera Vilcabamba mountains, en route to a site on Cerro Victoria at the end of the canyon below them.
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  • Ski mountaineer Allan Pietrasanta squeezes with two companions into a small two-person tent during a pioneering two-week ski expedition across India's Great Himalaya Range, from Ladakh to Kashmir.
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  • Using a short, thin rope, ski mountaineer AllanPietrasanta rappels from trees to tree into the Warwan River Gorge during a pioneering two-week ski expedition from Ladakh to Kashmir across India's Great Himalaya Range.
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  • A Ski Mountaineers follows a stream in the Warwan Valley, en route from Ladakh to Kashmir during an expedition across India's Great Himalaya Range.
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  • Ski Mountaineers descend Warwan Pass en route from Ladakh to Kashmir during an expedition across India's Great Himalaya Range.
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  • Bearing heavy packs, ski mountaineers Allan Pietrasanta and Jay Jensen descend below 16,000 foot Warwan Pass during a pioneering two-week ski expedition from Ladakh to Kashmir, across India's Great Himalaya Range.
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  • Ski Mountaineers cross Warwan Pass en route from Ladakh to Kashmir during an expedition across India's Great Himalaya Range.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. Helicopter retrieves equipment after Great Sail Peak big wall climbing expedition.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. Mark Synnott & Greg Child (MR) endure rain & wind during descent from month-long, big wall rock climbing expedition on Great Sail Peak.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, NUNAVUT, CANADA. A rock climbing expedition prepares to lower huge haul bags that are used to drag food, water and equipment up a big wall climb.  This load was so heavy that the friction generated by a braking device almost melted the rope.
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  • ALEX LOWE during Great Sail Peak expedition, Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada.
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  • The late mountaineer Alex Lowe washes & shaves in an expedition base camp on Canada's Baffin Island
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, NUNAVUT, CANADA.  Expedition stops to repair snowmobiles on Remote Peninsula, between Sam Ford Fjord and Stewart Valley.
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  • A worker at Adventure Network's Patriot Hills Expedition base ferries empty fuel drums to a C-130 Hercules that has landed on a bare ice runway.
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  • ANTARCTICA, Mount Vaughan Expedition. Norman & Carolyn Vaughan back in base camp after climbing Mt. Vaughan, named for Norman by Richard Byrd in 1929.
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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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  • ANTARCTICA. Jerry Corr (MR) in windy camp at 83 degrees south latitude during South Pole Ski Expedition in 1988.
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  • An expedition skier crosses Tunabreen Glacier on Spitsbergen Island
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  • INTERNATIONAL ARCTIC PROJECT, Expedition members plot most efficient route from North Pole to Ellesmere Island.
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  • Mountaineers communicate by radio during a mountaineering expedition to Queen Maud Land
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  • Expedition members ski near the wind-whipped Filchner Mountains in Queen Maud Land, Antarctica.
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  • Cordillera Vilcabamba, Andes Mountains, Peru. National Geographic archaeology expedition on cliffside trail hewn by Inca laborers, en route to site on Cerro Victoria. Nevado Sacsayrayoc background.
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  • Ski mountaineers set up a camp in the Warwan Valley of India's Great Himalaya Range during a two-week expedition crossing the mountains from Ladakh to Kashmir.
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  • Ski mountaineer Jay Jensen makes turns in knee deep powder below 16,000 foot Warwan Pass during a pioneering two-week ski expedition across India's Great Himalaya Range, from Ladakh to Kashmir.
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  • Bearing a heavy pack, ski mountaineer Allan Pietrasanta telemarks in knee deep powder below 16,000 foot Warwan Pass during a pioneering two-week ski expedition from Ladakh to Kashmir, across India's Great Himalaya Range.
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  • Ski mountaineer Jay Jensen telemarks in knee deep powder below 16,000 foot Warwan Pass during a pioneering two-week ski expedition from Ladakh to Kashmir across India's Great Himalaya Range.
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  • A Ski Mountaineers crosses Warwan pass, en route from Ladakh to Kashmir during an expedition across India's Great Himalaya Range.
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  • Ski Mountaineers cross Warwan Pass en route from Ladakh to Kashmir during an expedition across India's Great Himalaya Range.
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  • Mountaineer Jack Miller ascends an unnamed peak in the little-known Cordillera Sarmiento of Patagonia, near the tip of of South America.  Hielo Sur, earth's largest non-polar icecap is shrouded by fog in the background and the mountains here are plastered with icy rime ice borne by winds that commonly exceed 100mph.
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  • A mountaineer skis past seracs and crevasses on the icecap atop Chile's weather-beaten Cordillera Sarmiento, a previously unexplored range.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Canada. Great Sail Peak.  Route of National Geographic-sponsored first-ascent expedition goes up the North Face, just right of central summit gully.
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