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  • A Uygar tailor sews hats at a bazaar in Kashgar (Kashi), Xinjiang, China.
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  • A nomadic Komi reindeer herder waits outside of Snopa village while his companions buy supplies.
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  • A dealer passes out cards for a legal poker game in Chet's Bar at Big Sky resort in Montana.
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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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  • 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
  • In Snopa village, north of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a Komi man stands beside his draft horse.
    RUe 070425-027.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
  • Sherpa mountaineers Ang Lakpa and Pasang (Namche) watch a demonstration at a climbing school operated by Mountain Travel Nepal in September, 1980.
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  • Mountaineers Jay Jensen & Roger Schley (MR) sit by a campfire before climbing in the Palisades region of Sierra Nevada, California (John Muir Wilderness)
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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.
    RUe 070423-022.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, nomadic Komi reindeer herders grill reindeer meat on a stick over coals of an outdoor campfire.
    RUe 070414-097.jpg
  • A Chilean huaso (cowboy) relaxes in his home in Cochrane, a village in Patagonia.
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  • Mountaineers Jay Jensen & Roger Schley (MR) sit by a campfire before climbing in the Palisades region of Sierra Nevada, California (John Muir Wilderness)
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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.
    RUe 070414-038.jpg
  • Swarthy young men admire passing girls at a village festival near Lhasa in Tibet.
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  • Russian women chat on a bench below an ornately carved log building in the northern port city of Arkhangel'sk.
    RUe 070426-151.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.
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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.
    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, 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.
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  • 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
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder holds up netting of temporary pen against crush of reindeer.
    RUe 070414-219.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 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
  • Amazon Indians of the Bora tribe near Iquitos, Peru prepare to dance for tourists - often a sideline to more modern workaday jobs.
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  • 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
  • A paving construction  crew lays asphalt on a neighborhood street near Bozeman, Montana.
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  • 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).
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  • A vendor displays souvenirs made from camel felt at a tourist stop in a naxaul forest near Bayangol in Mongolia's southern Gobi Desert.
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  • A Mongolian throat singer performs at a concert in Ulaanbaatar.
    MGe 080711-618.jpg
  • Chilean gauchos stand outside a shed near Torres del Paine National Park in Patagonia, Chile.
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  • Torres del Paine National Park, Chile.
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  • A photographer shoots beside a small inlet into  Bow Lake in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada. Behind are the Wapta Icefield and Mount Thompson.
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  • A shopper tries on furs at a store in the Mountain Mall at Montana's Big Sky Resort.
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  • A costumed actor and Tibetan Buddhist lamas lead a procession as part of the annual Mani Rimdu festival held at Nepal's Tengboche Monastery.  (Photo taken in 1980.) The high lama is second from left.
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  • A band plays at an outdoor concert in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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  • A Bedouin nomad holds a baby goat near Petra, Jordan.
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  • Uygar men carry wood products on a donkey cart to the bazaar in Kashgar (Kashi), a city on the ancient Silk Road in Xinjiang, China.
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  • A Uygar man watches the weekly bazaar in Kashgar (Kashi), a town on the ancient Silk Road in Xinjiang, China.
    CX 0355.jpg
  • A Mongolian throat singer performs at a concert in Ulaanbaatar.
    MGe 080711-618.jpg
  • Bedouin youngsters fly across the desert in a camel race in the Wadi Rum, Jordan.
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  • Sherpa women (Sherpanis) in traditional garb talk about the annual Mani Rimdu festival they are attending at Nepal's Tengboche Monastery.  The woman on the left may be a nun and the one on the right is holding a jar with homemade, fermented barley "chung" (a possible offering.)
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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.
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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 070425-143.jpg
  • With his dog aboard his sled, north of the Arctic Circle in Russia, Vasily Terentév, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder,  navigates between frozen tundra hummocks as he pushes the herd closer to areas where they want the cows to calve.
    RUe 070423-188.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, Vasily Terentev prepares tea for his companions who rotate living on the land (without tents), while waiting for cows in the herd to calve.
    RUe 070423-085.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, Arthum Khantazeski & Vasily Terentev, nomadic Komi reindeer herders, lasso one of their herd to check its health.
    RUe 070423-084.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, people shop in a store in Snopa village, which is primarily occupied by ethnic Russians, but where the nomadic Komi reindeer herders periodically procures fresh food, staples and vodka.
    RUe 070421-213.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, scientist Alexi Volkov, who is traveling with the nomadic Komi reindeer herders, fishes with primitive gear through a hole chopped in a frozen stream.
    RUe 070417-238.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
  • 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 070416-010.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, 72-year old nomadic reindeer herder Marie Vaucheskaya, of the Komi clan, holds up a temporary pen.
    RUe 070414-232.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, nomadic Komi reindeer herders await arrival of the reindeer.  Their clothing and goggles come from time performing mandatory  Russian military service.
    RUe 070414-160.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, nomadic Komi reindeer herder Piotr Terentév awaits arrival of the reindeer to migrate to a new camp.  His clothing and goggles come from his time performing mandatory  Russian military service.
    RUe 070414-158.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
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder eats grilled reindeer meat as he waits for animals to arrive to pull his sled.
    RUe 070414-105.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, the men in a nomadic reindeer herding clan called the Komi, wait to move to a new camp.
    RUe 070414-078.jpg
  • Russian school children in arctic village of Nizhnyaya Pesha pose on bikes outside family home.
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  • Passengers and their baggage crowd a Russian helicopter flying from Arkhangel'sk to remote arctic villages.
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  • Photographers explore the crowded outdoor market in Belem, a neighborhood of Iquitos, Peru.
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  • Travelers explore the crowded outdoor market in Belem, a neighborhood of Iquitos, Peru.
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  • Adventure travelers ride a small motorboat up the Yanayacu River in Peru's Amazon Jungle.
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  • 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.
    PEe 091108-590-2.jpg
  • Amazon Indians of the Bora tribe near Iquitos, Peru prepare to dance for tourists - often a sideline to more modern workaday jobs.
    PEe 091108-582-2.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 musician in the famous Mongolian dance and musical troupe, Tumen Ekh, plays a traditional zither called a yatga.
    MGe 080719-216.jpg
  • A musician in the famous Mongolian dance and musical troupe, Tumen Ekh, plays the horsehead fiddle in Ulaanbaatar.
    MGe 080719-214.jpg
  • 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 plays a mouth harp in his home in Ulaanbaatar, which has decorated to look like a ger (yurt).
    MGe 080719-117.jpg
  • A young Mongolian musician plays a mouth harp in a home in Ulaanbaatar that he and his father have decorated to look like a ger (yurt).
    MGe 080719-106.jpg
  • Mongolian musician Tserendorj and his son sing and play traditional instruments in their home in Ulaanbaatar, which they have decorated to look like a ger (yurt).
    MGe 080719-104.jpg
  • A young Mongolian musician plays a traditional fiddle in his home in Ulaanbaatar, which he and his father have decorated to look like a ger (yurt).
    MGe 080719-103.jpg
  • An Austrian music troupe performs at Hotel Ulaanbaatar in Mongolia during a cultural exchange.
    MGe 080711-650.jpg
  • A policewoman guards the entrance to archery events at the national Naadam festival stadium in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
    MGe 080711-575.jpg
  • A young archer prepares to compete at a naadam festival in Zuunmod, Mongolia, near Ullanbaator.
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  • Spectators enjoy a naadam festival at Zuunmod, Mongolia, near Ulaanbaator.
    MGe 080710-014.jpg
  • Gauchos prepare for a day's work near Torres del Paine National Park, Chile.
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  • Gauchos prepare for a day's work near Torres del Paine National Park, Chile.
    CHe 080206-635.jpg
  • A young gaucho drinks traditional mate (tea) in Torres del Paine National Park, Chile.
    CHe 080204-352.jpg
  • A young gaucho drinks traditional mate (tea) in Torres del Paine National Park, Chile.
    CHe 080204-349.jpg
  • Workmen cross San Francisco Bay in a motorized commercial raft. Behind is the Bay Bridge.
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  • Explorer treads on slippery rocks in one of earth's deepest canyons.
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  • Sherpa women (Sherpanis) in traditional garb talk about the annual Mani Rimdu festival they are attending at Nepal's Tengboche Monastery.  The woman on the left may be a nun and the one on the right is holding a jar with homemade, fermented barley "chung" (a possible offering.)
    S 0812.jpg
  • A Bedouin youngster flies through the desert in a camel race in the Wadi Rum, Jordan.
    JD 2602.jpg
  • Bedouin youngsters fly across the desert in a camel race in the Wadi Rum, Jordan.
    JD 2577.jpg
  • A Bedouin youngster flies through the desert in a camel race in the Wadi Rum, Jordan.
    JD 2570.jpg
  • Rob Hart relaxes in a meadow at the mouth of the Grand Canyon of the Clarks Fork of the Yellowstone River.
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  • A youngster drinks water while resting during a hikes into a remote Wyoming canyon.
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  • Himalayan mountaineer Jay Jensen experiences 100+mph winds at about 23,000' on Baruntse Peak, Nepal.
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  • The famous Mongolian dance and musical troupe, Tumen Ekh, performs in Ulaanbaatar.
    MGe 080719-302.jpg
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