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  • MONGOLIA.  Mongolian archaeology student, Batjargal Khadbaatar ("Khada") in a bug hat to keep away swarming gnats and insects.
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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.
    RUe 070413-129.jpg
  • A dealer passes out cards for a legal poker game in Chet's Bar at Big Sky resort in Montana.
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  • A youngster admires a frog he caught.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, Gretel Ehrlich rides in a sled behind a snowmobile, en route to a camp of the last remaining nomadic Komi reindeer herders.
    RUe 070413-103.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, Gretel Ehrlich rides in a sled behind a snowmobile, en route to a camp of the last remaining nomadic Komi reindeer herders.
    RUe 070413-096.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, Gretel Ehrlich rides in a sled behind a snowmobile, en route to a camp of the last remaining nomadic Komi reindeer herders.
    RUe 070413-095.jpg
  • A skier checks his goggles on a powder day at Montana's Big Sky Resort.
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  • In Snopa village, north of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a Komi man stands beside his draft horse.
    RUe 070425-027.jpg
  • Dr. Peter Hackett smiles about a powder day at Montana's Big Sky resort.
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  • Filchner Mountains, Antarctica.	Alex Lowe bivouacs near the summit of Troll's Castle.
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  • CHINA, TIBET. Village boy in Lunang Valley, probably of Memba descent.
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  • A village boy, probably of Memba descent, stands in his village the in Lunang Valley, of Tibet, China.
    CF 1926.jpg
  • MONGOLIA. Yura Tagma (of the Sharnuud clan), a 59-year-old shaman living in Ulan Ula in the southern Darhad Valley, a small town under the Horidal Saridag Mountains in northern Mongolia.  She treats a variety of spiritual maladies caused by offenses against natural spirits, either by going into a trance or with natural herbs.  Her clients are primarily local families and other Mongolians who travel from distant locations due to her reputation.
    MGe 060702-060.jpg
  • Sherpa elder Kunchok Chombi relaxes by a window in a house in Namche Bazaar, Khumbu region, Nepal.
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  • Sherpa elder Kunchok Chombi drinks yak butter tea by a window in a house in Namche Bazaar, the biggest town in Nepal's Khumbu region.
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  • Sherpa elder Kunchok Chombi relaxes by a window in a house in Namche Bazaar, Khumbu region, Nepal.
    KF 0636.jpg
  • A policewoman watches events at the national Naadam festival in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
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  • A policewoman watches events at the national Naadam festival in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
    MGe 080711-023.jpg
  • Batyoi, a 35-year-old shaman living in Tsagaan Noor in the northern Darhad Valley, a small town under the Horidal Saridag Mountains in northern Mongolia.  He treats a variety of spiritual maladies caused by offenses against natural spirits, either by going into a trance or with natural herbs.
    MGe 060704-229.jpg
  • Batyoi, a 35-year-old shaman living in Tsagaan Noor in the northern Darhad Valley, a small town under the Horidal Saridag Mountains in northern Mongolia.  He treats a variety of spiritual maladies caused by offenses against natural spirits, either by going into a trance or with natural herbs.
    MGe 060704-227.jpg
  • Batyoi, a 35-year-old shaman living in Tsagaan Noor in the northern Darhad Valley, a small town under the Horidal Saridag Mountains in northern Mongolia.  He treats a variety of spiritual maladies caused by offenses against natural spirits, either by going into a trance or with natural herbs.
    MGe 060704-226.jpg
  • MONGOLIA. Yura Tagma (of the Sharnuud clan), a 59-year-old shaman living in Ulan Ula in the southern Darhad Valley, a small town under the Horidal Saridag Mountains in northern Mongolia.  She treats a variety of spiritual maladies caused by offenses against natural spirits, either by going into a trance or with natural herbs.  Her clients are primarily local families and other Mongolians who travel from distant locations due to her reputation.
    MGe 060702-060.jpg
  • Yura Tagma (of the Sharnuud clan), a 59-year-old shaman living in Ulan Ula in the southern Darhad Valley, a small town under the Horidal Saridag Mountains in northern Mongolia.  She treats a variety of spiritual maladies caused by offenses against natural spirits, either by going into a trance or with natural herbs.  Her clients are primarily local families and other Mongolians who travel from distant locations due to her reputation.
    MGe 060702-057.jpg
  • A rural herder at a naadam festival on a remote pass near Muren, Mongolia.
    MGe 060626-195.jpg
  • A Soviet era coal-mining foreman relays orders underground at a mine in Pyramiden, a now-abandoned town that was rarely visited by foreigners.
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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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  • A young Sherpa mountaineer learns proper belay techniques at a climbing school operated by Mountain Travel Nepal in September, 1980.
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  • A villager surveys the deep canyons and steep ridges of the Cordillera Vilcabamba in the Cusco District of the Peruvian Andes.
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  • PERU. Horseman in fog above Mangalpa village in Cordillera Central near Chachapoyas. Andes Mountains.
    PE 0382.jpg
  • Gallatin National Forest, near Big Sky, Montana. A woman in a field of flowers.
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  • Rob Hart, founder of Crazy Creek Products in Red Lodge, Montana, hams it up for a product photo of one of his hammocks (with a stuffed rattlesnake).
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  • A Nepali jhankri (faith healer) treks to a meeting of his fellow practitioners in the Solo region of Nepal.
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  • CHINA, TIBET. Villagers in Lunang Valley make leather straps with simple tanning equipment.
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  • CHINA, TIBET. Tibetan Buddhist devotee circles Lhasa's Jokhang Temple with prayer wheel & rosary beads as he chants the mantra "Om mani padme hum" (Hail to the Jewel in the Lotus).
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  • CORDILLERA SARMIENTO, PATAGONIA, CHILE. Rob Hart (MR) relaxes by a windswept fire in this stormy, unexplored range at the southern tip of the Andes. Taraba Sound background.
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  • Meredith Wiltsie and Khangri hike on Beehive Basin Trail, near Big Sky, Montana.
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  • Roger Schley naps by lake under Mount Whitney, highest peak in 48 states.
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  • A youngster rides in a backpacking child carrier in California's Sierra Nevada
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  • A cook (Michael Holmes) serves fish for dinner in the dining tent at Adventure Network's Patriot Hills expediton base, the first private aviation hub in Antarctica.
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  • A cook (Michael Holmes) serves dinner in the dining tent at Adventure Network's Patriot Hills expediton base, the first private aviation hub in Antarctica.
    AX 2834.jpg
  • A cook (Michael Holmes) for the dining tent at Adventure Network's  Patriot Hills expediton base serves dinner made from fresh food flown in from South America.  On right is Mike Sharp, base manager.
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  • Sherpa elder Kunchok Chombi drinks yak butter tea by a window in a house in Namche Bazaar, the biggest town in Nepal's Khumbu region.
    KF 0632.jpg
  • Batyoi, a 35-year-old shaman living in Tsagaan Noor in the northern Darhad Valley, a small town under the Horidal Saridag Mountains in northern Mongolia.  He treats a variety of spiritual maladies caused by offenses against natural spirits, either by going into a trance or with natural herbs.
    MGe 060704-228.jpg
  • Yura Tagma (of the Sharnuud clan), a 59-year-old shaman living in Ulan Ula in the southern Darhad Valley, a small town under the Horidal Saridag Mountains in northern Mongolia.  She treats a variety of spiritual maladies caused by offenses against natural spirits, either by going into a trance or with natural herbs.  Her clients are primarily local families and other Mongolians who travel from distant locations due to her reputation.
    MGe 060702-061.jpg
  • MONGOLIA. Yura Tagma (of the Sharnuud clan), a 59-year-old shaman living in Ulan Ula in the southern Darhad Valley, a small town under the Horidal Saridag Mountains in northern Mongolia.  She treats a variety of spiritual maladies caused by offenses against natural spirits, either by going into a trance or with natural herbs.  Her clients are primarily local families and other Mongolians who travel from distant locations due to her reputation.
    MGe 060702-056.jpg
  • A gaucho brews mate tea in Torres del Paine National Park, Patagonia, Chile.
    CHe 081027-121.jpg
  • American Mining Engineer Paul Allen prepares to visit a Russian coal mine on Norway's Spitsbergen Island, north of the Arctic Circle.
    SV 1938.jpg
  • Working deep underground on a polar island, a Norwegian coal miner operates heavy machinery dragging coal out of seams where it has been blasted loose from the bedrock.
    SV 1908.jpg
  • The Big Mountain Ski Area, Whitefish, Montana.	A skier turns in powder snow between snowy trees called snow ghosts.
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  • MONTANA, Big Sky. Sleigh ride driver heads into snowy woods at Lone Mountain Ranch.
    SK 6877.jpg
  • Rick Ridgeway relaxes at the end of a climbing expedition to Queen Maud Land, Antarctica.
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  • Senor Richard Rey Cotrima, el presidente de la fiesta in Yamblon, Peru, taks with his son who is sitting on a horse.
    PE 0632.jpg
  • A youngster admires a frog he caught.
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  • NEPAL, HIMALAYA. A Sherpa from Namche Bazaar inspects yak meat for sale at Saturday market, Khumbu Region.
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  • Sherpa elder Kunchok Chombi relaxes by a window in a house in Namche Bazaar, Khumbu region, Nepal.
    KF 0636.jpg
  • Sherpa elder Kunchok Chombi drinks yak butter tea by a window in a house in Namche Bazaar, the biggest town in Nepal's Khumbu region.
    KF 0632.jpg
  • CHINA, TIBET. Young Tibetan village men admire passing girls at a small-town festival.
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  • Mountaineer Greg Child bundles up against in sub-zero temperatures during a scouting trip to Canada's Baffin Island.
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  • Lightning strikes near Mexican Hat Rock, formerly on the boundary of Bears Ears National Monument, Utah.
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  • An oild rig pumps near Mexican Hat Rock, previously on the boundary of Bears Ears National Monument before it was downsized by the Trump administration to allow oild and gas exploration.
    UTe 180715-417.jpg
  • An oild rig pumps near Mexican Hat Rock, previously on the boundary of Bears Ears National Monument before it was downsized by the Trump administration to allow oild and gas exploration.
    UTe 180715-415.jpg
  • Mexican Hat Rock glows in a sunset in southern Utah.  This was earlier right on the boundary of Bears Ears National Monument.
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  • Mexican Hat Rock glows in a sunset in southern Utah.  This was earlier right on the boundary of Bears Ears National Monument.
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  • Mexican Hat Rock glows in a sunset in southern Utah.  This was earlier right on the boundary of Bears Ears National Monument.
    UTe 180715-390.jpg
  • A Uygar tailor sews hats at a bazaar in Kashgar (Kashi), Xinjiang, China.
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  • Russian women chat on a bench below an ornately carved log building in the northern port city of Arkhangel'sk.
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  • A poster for the Russian military encourages recruitment for a career in what is otherwise obligatory two year service for all men in the country.
    RUe 070425-144.jpg
  • 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 070423-151.jpg
  • 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
  • Every few years the nomadic Komi reindeer herding clan selects a new leader.  In 2006 it was Vasily Terentév, Marie Terenteva's younger son.
    RUe 070423-099.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.
    RUe 070423-093.jpg
  • 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.
    RUe 070423-057.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a Russian toddler helps her family tend their coal-fired barbeque during a picnic near Snopa village.
    RUe 070421-181.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, Vasily Chuprov, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder, watches over animals temporarily corralled in a pen.
    RUe 070421-060.jpg
  • Nomadic reindeer herder Fyodor “Fedya” Vanutá drives his sled across the melting tundra while migrating with the last remaining Komi clan still to live on the land.  Notably, though, Fyodor is a Nenet, born to a different reindeer herding culture.
    RUe 070420-151.jpg
  • Nomadic reindeer herder Fyodor “Fedya” Vanutá drives his sled across the tundra while migrating with the last remaining Komi clan still to live on the land.  Notably, though, Fyodor is a Nenet, born to a different reindeer herding culture.
    RUe 070420-138.jpg
  • 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.
    RUe 070416-271.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, 77-year old Marie Terentéva, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder, prepares one of her sleds for migration, while another herder goes to fetch the animals.
    RUe 070416-019.jpg
  • As a Komi reindeer herding clan prepares to move, Maria Terenteva and her son Piotr Terentev dissassemble the poles off their  chum (tepee). Piece by piece, everything will be loaded onto reindeer-driven sleds and driven across the tundra north of the Arctic Circle in Russia.
    RUe 070416-012.jpg
  • 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. Behind him is a portable pen used to capture the animals.
    RUe 070414-314.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia,  nomadic Komi reindeer herders hold up netting of a temporary pen against a crush of animals.
    RUe 070414-279.jpg
  • Gretel Ehrlich, guide Andrei Volkov, Komi clan leader Vasily Terentev and other nomadic reindeer herders examine a map of where the group will be traveling while journalists are with their group.
    RUe 070414-154.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder eats grilled reindeer meat as his dog hopes for a bite.
    RUe 070414-109.jpg
  • 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.
    RUe 070414-025.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a mechanic from Nizhnyaya Pesha carries Andrei Volkov and Andrew MacLean in a sled behind his crude Russian snowmobile. They are en route to visit the ever-moving camp of the last nomadic Komi reindeer-herding clan.  The rifle is for protection against bears.
    RUe 070413-088.jpg
  • Russian school children in arctic village of Nizhnyaya Pesha pose on bikes outside family home.
    RUe 070413-081.jpg
  • Passengers and their baggage crowd a Russian helicopter flying from Arkhangel'sk to remote arctic villages.
    RUe 070413-006.jpg
  • An Amazon Indian woman of the Bora tribe near Iquitos, Peru, prepares to dance for tourists - perhaps a sideline to a more modern, workaday job.
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  • Amazon Indians of the Bora tribe near Iquitos, Peru prepare to dance for tourists - often a sideline to more modern workaday jobs.
    PEe 091108-582-2.jpg
  • Amazon Indians of the Bora tribe near Iquitos, Peru prepare to dance for tourists - often a sideline to more modern workaday jobs.
    PEe 091108-574-2.jpg
  • Amazon Indians of the Bora tribe near Iquitos, Peru dance for tourists - often a sideline to more modern workaday jobs.
    PEe 091108-558-2.jpg
  • Amazon Indians of the Bora tribe near Iquitos, Peru prepare to dance for tourists - perhaps a sideline to more modern workaday jobs.
    PEe 091108-542-2.jpg
  • A paving construction  crew lays asphalt on a neighborhood street near Bozeman, Montana.
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  • A young Mongolian musician tunes a traditional fiddle in his home in Ulaanbaatar, which he and his father have decorated to look like a ger (yurt).
    MGe 080719-138.jpg
  • Mongolian musician Tserendorj sings and plays a traditional horsehead fiddle in his home in Ulaanbaatar, which he has decorated to look like a ger (yurt).
    MGe 080719-131.jpg
  • Mongolian Musician Tserendorj plays a mouth harp in his home in Ulaanbaatar, which has decorated to look like a ger (yurt).
    MGe 080719-117.jpg
  • A vendor displays souvenirs made from camel felt at a tourist stop in a naxaul forest near Bayangol in Mongolia's southern Gobi Desert.
    MGe 080713-149.jpg
  • A Mongolian throat singer performs at a concert in Ulaanbaatar.
    MGe 080711-618.jpg
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