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  • "Ice Fjord (Isfjorden), <br />
Spitsbergen, Svalbard, Norway."	An expedition skier explores
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  • Tsangpo (Brahmaputra) River Gorge, Himalaya Mountains, Tibet, China. Explorer above rapids in one of world's remotest and deepest gorges.
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  • Arctic Ocean, near Cape Bathurst, Northwest Territories, Canada.	An explorer reads a chart in a tent while sled dogs wait outside.
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  • Tsangpo (Brahmaputra) River Gorge, Himalaya, Tibet, People's Republic of China. Explorer above rapids in one of world's remotest and deepest gorges.
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  • Explorer beside rapids in one of world's remotest and deepest gorges.
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  • Glaciologist Jon Ove Hagen explores far into polar sub-glacial river cave.
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  • Lomonosov Icecap, Spitsbergen Island, Svalbard, Norway.	A polar explorer stands atop a mountain surrounded by huge glaciers.
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  • Halfway through the 1989-1990 Trans-Antarctica Expedition, leaders Will Steger & Jean-Louis Etienne admire photos of earlier explorers during a brief stopover at the South Pole.
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  • Explorer Jack Miller studies a map of the unexplored Cordillera Sarmiento, Patagonia, Chile.
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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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  • Tourists explore a hillside near Damoy Point on Wiencke Island, Antarctica. Behind are peaks of The Seven Sisters of Fief in the Fief Mountains.
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  • SPITSBERGEN, Norway, Exploring frozen fjord below ice cliffs of Nordenskiold Glacier. Svalbard ski expedition.
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  • Polar explorer Will Steger mushes a dog team across the frozen Arctic Ocean north of Inuvik in the Northwest Territories of Canada.  A long sunset hovers on the horizon as spring gradually approaches.
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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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  • A group of eco-tourists explores Prion Island in the Bay of Isles, South Georgia, Antarctica.
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  • Tourists explore a cove at Damoy Point on Wiencke Island, Antarctica.
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  • Tourists explore a cove at Damoy Point on Wiencke Island, Antarctica. Behind is Mount Luigi, highest of  the Seven Sisters of Fief in the Fief Mountains.
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  • Tourists explore a cove at Damoy Point on Wiencke Island, Antarctica.
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  • Tourists from the National Geographic Endeavor explore a cove at Damoy Point on Wiencke Island, Antarctica. Behind are mountains on Anvers Island.
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  • Tourists from the National Geographic Endeavor explore a cove at Damoy Point on Wiencke Island, Antarctica. Behind are mountains on Anvers Island.
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  • Tourists from the National Geographic Endeavor explore a cove at Damoy Point on Wiencke Island, Antarctica. Behind are mountains on Anvers Island.
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  • Tourists from the National Geographic Endeavor explore a cove at Damoy Point on Wiencke Island, Antarctica. Behind are mountains on Anvers Island.
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  • Tourists explore a Gentoo Penguin rookery near Damoy Point on Wiencke Island, Antarctica. Behind are peaks of The Seven Sisters of Fief in the Fief Mountains.
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  • Tourists explore a hillside near Damoy Point on Wiencke Island, Antarctica. Behind are peaks of The Seven Sisters of Fief in the Fief Mountains.
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  • Tourists from a cruise ship explore a Gentoo Penguin rookery on Booth  Island, Antarctica during a heavy snowstorm.
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  • A tourist from a cruise ship explores Booth  Island, Antarctica during a heavy snowstorm.
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  • Tourists from a cruise ship explore Booth  Island, Antarctica during a heavy snowstorm.
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  • Tourists from a cruise ship explore Booth  Island, Antarctica during a heavy snowstorm.
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  • Tourists from a cruise ship explore Booth  Island, Antarctica during a heavy snowstorm.
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  • Tourists from a cruise ship explore Booth  Island, Antarctica during a heavy snowstorm.
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  • Explorer David Breashears watches as expedition porters heat water over a campfire in the Tsangp River Gorge, one of the world’s deepest canyons, in remote southeastern Tibet, China.
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  • Mountaineer David Breashears leaves the last villages to explore the long-forbidden Tsangpo River Gorge, one of the deepest on earth, a sacred space for Tibetan Buddhists.
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  • Polar travelers explore icy serac on glacier near Svea.
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  • INTERNATIONAL ARCTIC PROJECT.  Russian explorer Dr. Victor Boyarsky at start of expedition across Arctic Ocean from Severnaya Zemlya. Temp: -45deg.
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  • Polar explorer Will Steger mushes across the frozen Arctic Ocean north of Canada, aglow in the midnight sun.
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  • Explorer Will Steger mushes along frozen Arctic Ocean coast, Northwest Territories, Canada.
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  • An Antarctic explorer approaches his tent in a storm.
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  • Mountaineers Mark Newcomb and Nancy Feaghin explore a treacherous slot canyon carved through conglomerate rock below  Shipton’s Arch in the arid Kara Tagh Mountains next to the hazy Taklimakan Desert near Kashagar (Kashi) in Xinjiang Province, China.
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  • Hikers explore the Cordillera Sarmiento above Taraba Sound in Patagonia, Chile.
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  • A group of eco-tourists explores Prion Island in the Bay of Isles, South Georgia, Antarctica.
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  • Tourists explore a cove at Damoy Point on Wiencke Island, Antarctica. In the far background are peaks of the Wall Range.
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  • Tourists explore a cove at Damoy Point on Wiencke Island, Antarctica, a home to Gentoo Penguins. In the far background are peaks of the Wall Range.
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  • Tourists explore a cove at Damoy Point on Wiencke Island, Antarctica. In the far background are peaks of the Wall Range.
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  • Tourists from a cruise ship explore Booth  Island, Antarctica during a heavy snowstorm.
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  • TIBET, Tsangpo Gorge, David Breashears prepares a monument to explorer pundit, Kinthup.
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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 David Breashears navigates huge boulders in  the Tsangpo River Gorge, one of the world’s deepest canyons, in remote southeastern Tibet, China.
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  • Explorer treads on slippery rocks in one of earth's deepest canyons.
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  • Explorer David Breashears & expedition porters dry out after torrential rain during  an expedition into the Tsangp River Gorge, one of the world’s deepest canyons, in remote southeastern 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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  • Glaciologist Jon Ove Hagen explores far into polar sub-glacial river cave.
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  • Polar travelers explore icy serac on glacier near Svea.
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  • Polar explorers work together to cross a "lead" on the frozen Arctic Ocean.
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  • Explorer Will Steger mushes guides his dog team on the frozen Arctic Ocean, Northwest Territories, Canada.
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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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  • Mountaineers explore an approach to Shipton's Arch in the Kara Tagh Mountains near Kashgar, Xinjiang, China.
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  • Mountaineers Mark Newcomb and Nancy Feaghin explore a desert wash looking for a route to Shipton’s Arch (upper left) in the arid Kara Tagh Mountains near Kashagar (Kashi) in Xinjiang Province, China. Later the expedition climbed it from the other side, then crossed the range by descending the dangerous and unexplored slot canyonthat emerges on the far right of this frame.
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  • Oil shale burns spontaneously in the Smoking Hills on Cape Bathurst.
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  • Mountaineer Sam Lightner (MR) rappels down dangerous loose, crumbling rock in slot canyons below Shipton's Arch in arid Kara Tagh Mountains near Kashgar and the Taklimakan Desert.
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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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  • ANTARCTICA, Mike Sharp navigates across featureless snow with sextant readings off sun while guiding South Pole Ski Expedition in 1988.
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  • Camp I on Baruntse Peak, Nepal
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  • Hanging Portaledge camp & haul bags high on Great Sail Peak, Baffin Island, Canada.
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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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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada, Alex Lowe (MR) makes difficult hook moves, aid climbing high on Great Sail Peak.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. Greg Child (MR) balances in aid slings on extreme A4+ pitch high on Great Sail Peak.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND. Jared Ogden ascends Great Sail Peak, Stewart Valley bkg. Nunavut, Canada. (MR)
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Canada, Gordon Wiltsie photographs from cantilevered poles, high on Great Sail Peak.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, NUNAVUT, CANADA. Greg Child ascends rope high on Great Sail Peak, above fog in Stewart Valley. (MR)
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  • Pertemba Sherpa demonstrates  rappelling  at an early mountaineering school for sherpas in the Khumbu region of Nepal, 1980. Mt. Ama Dablam bkg.
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  • Mountaineers on Baruntse Peak, 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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  • 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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  • Glaciologists descend into opening of long, polar sub-glacial river cave.
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  • Spitsbergen Island, Svalbard Archipelago, Norway.	An expedition skier crosses sastrugi on frozen Billefjord.
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  • A twin otter bush plane refuels on Ellsmere Island, Nunavut, Canada.
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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.
    ST 9076.jpg
  • INTL.ARCTIC PROJECT, Will Steger's dog team pulls sled over a pressure ridge on frozen Arctic Ocean.
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  • Expedition dog team crosses fractured pressure ridge on frozen Arctic Ocean.
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  • Ulrik Vedel just after falling into lead, rescuing dogs, 1st day, at -40 deg.
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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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  • 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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  • INTERNATIONAL ARCTIC PROJECT.  Martin Hignell & Takano Takako (MR) react as their sled & dogs break thru hidden Arctic Ocean "lead."
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  • Expedition members teach dogs to cross an open water lead on frozen Arctic Ocean.
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  • The Aurora Borealis glows over spruce trees and a candle-lit tent. Great Slave Lake, Northwest Territories, Canada.
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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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  • 1993 Training Expedition to Great Slave Lake, NWT, Canada.
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  • Skiers cruise down a groomed run at Montana's Big Sky resort.
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  • A skier checks his goggles on a powder day at Montana's Big Sky Resort.
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  • SKIING, Matt Mosteller(MR) skiing in heavy snowstorm at the Big Mountain, Whitefish, MT.
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