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  • Lhasa, Tibet, People's Republic of China. Tibetan Buddhist nuns chant and pray in a temple at their nunnery.
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  • Lhasa, Tibet, People's Republic of China.	Sera Monastery overlooks Lhasa before mass influx of Chinese migrants.
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  • Tibet, People's Republic of China. A village with towers east of Lhasa.
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  • Gyantse, Tibet, People's Republic of China. An ancient hilltop fort; British damaged in 1904, by China in 1960's.
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  • Tsangpo (Brahmaputra) River Gorge, Himalaya, Tibet, People's Republic of China.	Impenetrable rain forest grows on cliffs barricading this forbidding canyon.
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  • Photographer Gordon Wiltsie helps homeless people dig a fish pond to feed their neighbors at Mirpur Destitute Camp near Dhaka Bangladesh in 1977.
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  • Photographer Gordon Wiltsie helps homeless people dig a fish pond to feed their neighbors at Mirpur Destitute Camp near Dhaka Bangladesh in 1977.
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  • Photographer Gordon Wiltsie helps homeless people dig a fish pond to feed their neighbors at Mirpur Destitute Camp near Dhaka Bangladesh in 1977.
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  • A diverse crowd of people and animals gathers at the weekly Mirpur animal market near Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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  • Homeless village people from Bangladesh smoke a homemade hookah at  Mirpur Destitute Ramp near Dhaka, Bangladesh.  1977. They were left destitute by a back to back cyclone and  brutal war of independence in 1971.   1977 image.
    BD 0118.jpg
  • Homeless people dig a latrine for their neighbors at Mirpur Destitute Camp near Dhaka, Bangladesh, a population left homeless after a cyclone and 1971 war of indepence.
    BD 1803.jpg
  • Photographer Gordon Wiltsie helps homeless people dig a fish pond to feed their neighbors at Mirpur Destitute Camp near Dhaka Bangladesh in 1977.
    BD 1703.jpg
  • Photographer Gordon Wiltsie helps homeless people dig a fish pond to feed their neighbors at Mirpur Destitute Camp near Dhaka Bangladesh in 1977.
    BD 1702.jpg
  • Photographer Gordon Wiltsie helps homeless people dig a fish pond to feed their neighbors at Mirpur Destitute Camp near Dhaka Bangladesh in 1977.
    BD 1416.jpg
  • A diverse crowd of people and animals gathers at the weekly Mirpur animal market near Dhaka, Bangladesh.
    BD 1007.jpg
  • A diverse crowd of people and animals gathers at the weekly Mirpur animal market near Dhaka, Bangladesh.
    BD 1006.jpg
  • A diverse crowd of people and animals gathers at the weekly Mirpur animal market near Dhaka, Bangladesh.
    BD 1005.jpg
  • A diverse crowd of people and animals gathers at the weekly Mirpur animal market near Dhaka, Bangladesh.
    BD 1002.jpg
  • A diverse crowd of people and animals gathers at the weekly Mirpur animal market near Dhaka, Bangladesh.
    BD 0920.jpg
  • Kancha Sherpa and his wife Ang Lakpa pose with their sons outside their house in Namche Bazaar, a leading town for the Sherpa people.
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  • Village farmers who have trekked days from lowland Nepal relax  after carrying baskets of their wares to sell at  the Saturday bazar in mountainous Namche Bazaar, leading town of the Sherpa people.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, Arthum Khantazeski, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder, watches – and sometimes directs – the herd movement as cows begin to calve.  The group’s objective is to keep them in one place during this crucial period, before mosquitoes force both people and caribou to move to higher ground in nearby mountains.
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  • Enkhtuya Ragchaa, a 53-year-old shaman of the Tsaatan (Reindeer) people.
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  • MONGOLIA, Few rivers in the Darhad Valley have bridges, so most people use ferrys to cross where it is too deep for horses.
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  • People in Butte, Montana celebrate the Fourth of July with a parade.
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  • Village farmers who have trekked days from lowland Nepal relax  after carrying baskets of their wares to sell at  the Saturday bazar in mountainous Namche Bazaar, leading town of the Sherpa people.
    KF 0827.jpg
  • Homeless village people from Bangladesh smoke a homemade hookah at  Mirpur Destitute Ramp near Dhaka, Bangladesh.  1977. They were left destitute by a back to back cyclone and  brutal war of independence in 1971.   1977 image.
    BD 0119.jpg
  • Homeless village people from Bangladesh smoke a homemade hookah at  Mirpur Destitute Ramp near Dhaka, Bangladesh.  1977. They were left destitute by a back to back cyclone and  brutal war of independence in 1971.   1977 image.
    BD 0117.jpg
  • Sherpani women stand outside their house in Namche Bazaar, leading town of the Sherpa people.  (Dai Angdu and Ang Lakpa)
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, nomadic Komi Reindeer herders, who are visiting Snopa village to resupply their provisions, watch as a helicopter ferries people back to the nearest big city, Arkhangel'sk. (as viewed from the helicopter)
    RUe 070425-106.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a Nenet woman and her baby wait outside a store in Snopa village.  The Nenet are a mongoloid ethnicity  and are the primary reindeer herders of northern Russia (though, unlike the local Komi people, none herd reindeer nomadically in this region).
    RUe 070421-222.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a trans-polar jet flies over a chum (tepee) of the vanishing Komi reindeer herding people.
    RUe 070418-141.jpg
  • People in Butte, Montana celebrate the Fourth of July with a parade (2011.)
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  • People in Butte, Montana celebrate the Fourth of July with a parade.
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  • People in Butte, Montana celebrate the Fourth of July with a parade (2011.)
    MTe 110704-226.jpg
  • People in Butte, Montana celebrate the Fourth of July with a parade.
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  • People in Butte, Montana celebrate the Fourth of July with a parade.
    MTe 110704-179.jpg
  • People in Butte, Montana celebrate the Fourth of July (2011) with a parade.
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  • People in Butte, Montana celebrate the Fourth of July (2011) with a parade.
    MTe 110704-167.jpg
  • A view of Ullaanbaatar, Mongolia from the Zaisan Monument, which was built by the Soviets to commemorate people killed in World War II.
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  • A view of Ullaanbaatar, Mongolia from the Zaisan Monument, which was built by the Soviets to commemorate people killed in World War II.
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  • A view of Ullaanbaatar, Mongolia from the Zaisan Monument, which was built by the Soviets to commemorate people killed in World War II.
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  • A view of Ullaanbaatar, Mongolia from the Zaisan Monument, which was built by the Soviets to commemorate people killed in World War II.
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  • MONGOLIA. Enkhtuya Ragchaa, a 53-year-old shaman of the Tsaatan (Reindeer) people, now living on the west shore of Lake Hovsgol, 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 include local families and foreigners, alike.
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  • Goats wait to be purchased at the weekly Saturday market in Namche Bazaar, the leading Sherpa town of Nepal's Himalaya. Most people pictured have carried big loads for several days up from the lowlands (probably also the source of the goats.)
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  • Sherpas women (Sherpanis) shop for supplies from lowland people who have carried big loads for several days to the weekly Saturday market in Namche Bazaar, the leading Sherpa town of Nepal's Himalaya.
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  • Sherpa Tsering Ongchu and his mother pose inside their family's kitchen in Namche Bazaar, a leading town of Nepal's Sherpa people. (Picture taken in September, 1980.)
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  • Sherpas women (Sherpanis) shop for apples from lowland people who have carried big loads for several days to the weekly Saturday market in Namche Bazaar, the leading Sherpa town of Nepal's Himalaya.
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  • MONGOLIA, Darhad Valley. Tsataan ("reindeer people") woman feeds sugar to one of her favorite calves.
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  • MONGOLIA, Woman of the Tsataan ("reindeer people") milks one of her reindeer cows.
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  • People wander through Durbar Square in Kathmandu, Nepal in 1982. Today the streets are jammed with cars and scooters.
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  • People shop at a sidewalk fruit and vegetable bazaar in Kathmandu, Nepal.  1982.
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  • People wander through Durbar Square in Kathmandu, Nepal, 1982.
    KT 1901.jpg
  • People walk a back street in Kathmandu, Nepal.
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  • Nepali people walk between pagoda temples in Patan, Nepal.
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  • Village farmers who have trekked days from lowland Nepal relax after carrying baskets of their wares to sell at  the Saturday bazar in mountainous Namche Bazaar, leading town of the Sherpa people.
    KF 0836.jpg
  • Village farmers who have trekked days from lowland Nepal admire the view after carrying baskets of their wares to sell at  the Saturday bazar in mountainous Namche Bazaar, leading town of the Sherpa people. Kwangde Peak rises behind.
    KF 0830.jpg
  • Village farmers who have trekked days from lowland Nepal relax  after carrying baskets of their wares to sell at  the Saturday bazar in mountainous Namche Bazaar, leading town of the Sherpa people.
    KF 0827.jpg
  • Village farmers who have trekked days from lowland Nepal admire the view after carrying baskets of their wares to sell at  the Saturday bazar in mountainous Namche Bazaar, leading town of the Sherpa people. Kwangde Peak rises behind.
    KF 0826.jpg
  • Village farmers who have trekked days from lowland Nepal admire the view after carrying baskets of their wares to sell at  the Saturday bazar in mountainous Namche Bazaar, leading town of the Sherpa people.
    KF 0824.jpg
  • Village farmers who have trekked days from lowland Nepal admire the view after carrying baskets of their wares to sell at  the Saturday bazar in mountainous Namche Bazaar, leading town of the Sherpa people. Kwangde Peak rises behind.
    KF 0821.jpg
  • NEPAL, HIMALAYA. Weekly Saturday market in Namche Bazaar, leading Sherpa town, where locals trade with lowland people. (1986 Photo).
    KF 0820.jpg
  • Traders and Village farmers who have trekked days from lowland Nepal sell their  wares  at  the Saturday bazar in mountainous Namche Bazaar, leading town of the Sherpa people. Thamserku Peak rises behind.
    KF 0815.jpg
  • Village farmers who have trekked days from lowland Nepal relax after carrying baskets of their  wares to sell at  the Saturday bazar in mountainous Namche Bazaar, leading town of the Sherpa people.
    KF 0807.jpg
  • Crowds of farmers who have trekked days from lowland Nepal sell their wares at the Saturday bazar in mountainous Namche Bazaar, leading town of the Sherpa people.
    KF 0723.jpg
  • A cow tries to graze at the weekly Saturday market in Namche Bazaar, the leading Sherpa town of Nepal's Himalaya. Most people pictured have carried big loads for several days up from the lowlands (probably also the source of the cow.)
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  • Local Sherpas bargain with lowland people who have carried big loads for several days to the weekly Saturday market in Namche Bazaar, the leading Sherpa town of Nepal's Himalaya. Although most Sherpas are Tibetan Buddhists and most lowlander are Hindu, this is not a source of conflict.
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  • Proprietors Dawa and Namdu Sherpani prepare a meal in the kitchen of Khumbu Lodge in Namche Bazaar, the leading town of Nepal's Sherpa people.
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  • CHINA, TIBET, LHASA. Boatman carries a yak-skin coracle used to ferry people across Lhasa River.
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  • 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
  • Sherpas women (Sherpanis) shop for supplies from lowland people who have carried big loads for several days to the weekly Saturday market in Namche Bazaar, the leading Sherpa town of Nepal's Himalaya.
    S 0620.jpg
  • Sherparelax by the kitchenhearth in Namche Bazaar, a leading town of Nepal's Sherpa people. (Picture taken in September, 1980.)
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  • MONGOLIA, Mishig and a Mongolian herder in a tipi of the Tsaatan "reindeer people."
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  • MONGOLIA, Darhad Valley. Tsataan ("reindeer people") mother and her children inside their tipi.
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  • MONGOLIA, Youngster of the Tsataan ("reindeer people") learns to ride under watchful eye of his grandfather.
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  • NEPAL, HIMALAYA. Weekly Saturday market in Namche Bazaar, leading Sherpa town, where locals trade with lowland people. (1986 Photo).
    KF 0719.jpg
  • Crowds of farmers who have trekked days from lowland Nepal sell their wares at the Saturday bazar in mountainous Namche Bazaar, leading town of the Sherpa people.
    KF 0703.jpg
  • Dawa Sherpani prepares a meal in the kitchen of Khumbu Lodge in Namche Bazaar, the leading town of Nepal's Sherpa people.
    KF 0571.jpg
  • Iceplant (Carpobrotus edulis)  blooms along the Pacific Ocean at Bean Hollow State Beach near Pescadero, California.  This invasive species has taken over the biomass of many parts of the California coast.
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  • Tourists hike across a sand bar on Grey Lake, below the Horns of Paine in Torres del Paine National Park, Chile.
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  • Tourists hike across a sand bar on Grey Lake, below the Horns of Paine in Torres del Paine National Park, Chile.
    CHe 080205-149.jpg
  • Yellowstone National Park. Kayakers on Yellowstone Lake, beside West Thumb Geyser Basin, Wyoming
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  • Tourists hike across a sand bar on Grey Lake, below the Horns of Paine in Torres del Paine National Park, Chile.
    CHe 080205-603-2.jpg
  • Tourists hike across a sand bar on Grey Lake, below the Horns of Paine in Torres del Paine National Park, Chile.
    CHe 080205-593-2.jpg
  • Tourists hike across a sand bar on Grey Lake, below the Horns of Paine in Torres del Paine National Park, Chile.
    CHe 080205-578-2.jpg
  • Tourists hike across a sand bar on Grey Lake, below the Horns of Paine in Torres del Paine National Park, Chile.
    CHe 080205-572-2.jpg
  • Tourists hike across a sand bar on Grey Lake, below the Horns of Paine in Torres del Paine National Park, Chile.
    CHe 080205-147.jpg
  • Tourists hike across a sand bar on Grey Lake, below the Horns of Paine in Torres del Paine National Park, Chile.
    CHe 080205-137.jpg
  • Tourists hike across a sand bar on Grey Lake, below the Horns of Paine in Torres del Paine National Park, Chile.
    CHe 080205-135.jpg
  • Adventure travelers ride horses in Torres del Paine National Park, Chile.
    CHe 080204-276.jpg
  • Iceplant (Carpobrotus edulis)  blooms along the Pacific Ocean at Bean Hollow State Beach near Pescadero, California.  This invasive species has taken over the biomass of many parts of the California coast.
    CAe 160407-145.jpg
  • RAFTING, Missouri Breaks National Monument, Montana. Group floats down the Missouri River.
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  • Homeless village women from Bangladesh, left widowed, destitute or raped after a cyclone and brutal war of independence in 1971,  find shelter at Mirpur Destitute Camp near Dhaka , 1977 Image.
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  • An aid worker leads a family planning discussion at Mirpur Destitute Camp, set up at an abndoned soap factory near Dhaka, Bangladesh,  after a cyclone & bloody war of independence left millions of peole homeless.  1977 image.
    BD 0302-2.jpg
  • A member of the ruling junta in Bangladesh reviews Bengali youth groups  celebrating thier recent independence from Pakistan.  1977 image.
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  • Homeless village children from Bangladesh line up for a ration of milk and survival biscuits at  Mirpur Destitute Camp near Dhaka, 1977.  Most of their mothers had left destitute, widowed and violated  by  back-to -back cyclone and  brutal 1971 war of independence
    BD 0312.jpg
  • An aid worker prepare to distribute food at Mirpur Destitute Camp, set up at an abndoned soap factory near Dhaka, Bangladesh,  after a cyclone & bloody war of independence left millions of peole homeless.  1977 image.
    BD 0305.jpg
  • Homeless village women from Bangladesh, left widowed, destitute or raped after a cyclone and brutal war of independence in 1971,  find shelter at Mirpur Destitute Camp near Dhaka , 1977 Image.
    BD 0211.jpg
  • Homeless and malnourished village children from Bangladesh find a moment to smile at Mirpur Destitute Camp near Dhaka, Bangladesh. in 1977.  Their mother had been left widowed, violated and destitute after both a cyclone and subsequent war of indepence in 1971.
    BD 0209.jpg
  • INDIA, Kashmir. Hindu worshippers leave offerings (prasad) in Amarnath Cave, after 5-day Himalayan pilgrimage to see ice lingam here.
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