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  • A mountaineer ascends slope below Pilot Peak.
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  • A ski mountaineer crosses Gulol Pass, en route across the Himalaya.
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  • Gujar nomads lead their sheep & goats across a Himalayan pass in Kashmir, India.
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  • A backcountry skier descends powder slopes below Pilot Peak.
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  • Ski Mountaineers Jay Jensen and Allan Pietrasanta saw a ski in half with a Swiss Army knife after its mate was buried in an avalanche that catapulted them down the cliffs behind.  Photographer Gordon Wiltsie did not yet know that he had crushed two vertebrae, but everyone knew he was seriously injured.  He was given the only remaining pair of skis in order to facilitate a self-rescue.  (This was near the end of the first-ever winter traverse across India's Great Himalaya Range from Ladakh to Kashmir.)
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  • Ski Mountaineers Jay Jensen and Allan Pietrasanta fashion emergency skis for a self rescue after being avalanched down the gully behind them.  Although the photographer suffered two crushed vertebrae, the team managed to successfully finish first-ever winter traverse of India's Great Himalaya Range from Ladakh to Kashmir.
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  • Ski Mountaineers Jay Jensen and Allan Pietrasanta set up an emergency camp after they and the photographer were avalanched down a gully adjacent to this cliff.  This was the first-ever winter traverse of India's Great Himalaya Range from Ladakh to Kashmir. Not knowing that he had suffered two crushed vertebrae and a knee injury Wiltsie was able to ski two more days to the first civilization.
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  • Camped atop a 16,000+ foot pass, ski mountaineer Allan Pietrasanta looks back at some of the gorges his team followed during an expedition across India's Great Himalaya Range from Ladakh to Kashmir.  Just hours later, on the other side of the pass, the team was caught in an avalanche and the photographer crushed two vertebrae, but the group finished their journey under their own power.
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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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  • Allan Pietrasanta, Gordon Wiltsie & Jay Jensen camp near the summit of Gulol Pass in Kashmir, just before getting avalanched in their ski mountaineering traverse of India's Great Himalaya Range.
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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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  • 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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  • Dawn lights up a summit above Gulol Pass in the Great Himalaya Range of Kashmir, India.
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  • Ski mountaineer Allan Pietrasanta explores around a camp 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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  • Ski Mountaineers descend Warwan Pass en route from Ladakh to Kashmir during an expedition across India's Great Himalaya Range.
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  • Smoke from a forest fire billows over an old ranch below the Gallatin Range of the Rocky Mountains near Bozeman, Montana.
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  • Smoke from a forest fire billows over the Gallatin Range of the Rocky Mountains near Bozeman, Montana.
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  • Evening thunderheads tower over Montana's Gallatin Range and Story Hills, near Bozeman.
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  • The shadow of Mount Nun stretches far west from the crest of India's Great Himalaya Range in Kashmir/Ladakh.
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  • Allan Pietrasanta & Jay Jensen encounter villagers near Pahalgam, Kashmir, after being avalanched in a ski mountaineering traverse of India's Great Himalaya Range.  The villagers could not believe that the team had crossed the mountains in winter.  (The photographer suffered crushed vertebrae in the accident, but was able to ski out himself.)
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  • Photographer Gordon Wiltsie stumbles out of India's Great Himalaya Range after crushing two vertebrae in an avalance near the end of the first-ever ski traverse from Ladakh to Kashmir.
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  • A steep, cliffy gully down which Allan Pietrasanta, Jay Jensen and Gordon Wiltsie were avalanched, near the end of the first-ever winter ski traverse over India's Great Himalaya Range from Ladakh to Kashmir.  All survived, but Wiltsie crushed two vertebrae and - not knowing the extent of his injuries - skied out under his own power.
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  • A cliffy gully down which Gordon Wiltsie and companions were avalanched during the first-ever ski crossing of India's Great Himalaya Range.
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  • A ski mountaineer - dwarfed by India's Great Himalaya Range - climbs out of the Warwan River Gorge as a storm approaches and avalanche danger builds.
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  • A ski mountaineer traverses avalanche debris beside a fork of the Warwan River in India's Great Himalaya Range.  This team of three skiers, who completed the first-ever ski traverse across the Himalaya from Ladakh to Kashmir, was later caught in an avalanche themselves.  The photographer suffered two crushed vertebrae by managed to ski the rest of the way back to civilization.
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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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  • Ski mountaineer Allan Pietrasanta kicks steps down an icy slope above the Warwan River Gorge, during a pioneering two-week ski expedition across India's Great Himalaya Range, from Ladakh to Kashmir.
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  • Ski mountaineer Allan Pietrasanta kicks and glides without a pack before descending 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 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 Mountaineers camp in the snowy Warwan Valley en route from Ladakh to Kashmir during an expedition across India's Great Himalaya Range.
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  • Ski mountaineers 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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  • GREAT HIMALAYA RANGE, KASHMIR, INDIA. Snowbound stream flows through Warwan Valley.
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  • Ski Mountaineers break camp amidst blowing spindrift in the snowy Warwan Valley, en route from Ladakh to Kashmir during an expedition across India's Great Himalaya Range.
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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 In 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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  • Ski Mountaineers cross Warwan Pass en route from Ladakh to Kashmir during an expedition across India's Great Himalaya Range.
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  • Great Himalaya Range, Ladakh, India. Ski mountaineers begin two-week, trans-Himalaya ski tour above Panikarh in Suru Valley.
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  • Smoke from a forest fire billows over an old ranch below the Gallatin Range of the Rocky Mountains near Bozeman, Montana.
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  • The sun sets behind Mount Ellis in Montana's Gallatin Range of the Rocky Mountains.
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  • Fall-colored aspens glow amid a douglas fir forest in the Gallatin Range near Bozeman, Montana.
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  • Fall-colored aspens glow amid a douglas fir forest in the Gallatin Range near Bozeman, Montana.
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  • A sunset lights clouds lover Montana's Story Hills, Gallatin Range, and the  Spanish Peaks.
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  • SKI MOUNTAINEERING, Great Himalaya Range, India. Jay Jensen (MR) atop Gulol Pass,  during ski mountaineering expedition across Himalaya from Ladakh to Kashmir.
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  • A lesser known summit of India's Great Himalaya range, near Pahalgam, Kashmir, glows in a morning sunrise.
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  • Great Himalaya Range, Kashmir, India. Mountaineer cross country skis around camp in Warwan Valley during two-week Himalayan crossing.
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  • A Ski Mountaineers crosses 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 camp in the snowy Warwan Valley en route from Ladakh to Kashmir during an expedition across India's Great Himalaya Range.
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  • Ski mountaineer Allan Pietrasanta telemarks in powder snow 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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  • Ski Mountaineers cross Warwan Pass en route from Ladakh to Kashmir during an expedition 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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  • Ski Mountaineers cross 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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  • A rock climber overlooks Gallatin Canyon and Madison Range near Big Sky.
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  • The United States Range rises in Ellesmere Island National Park Reserve.
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  • Fall-colored cottonwoods & aspens surrounded by storm squalls in southern Gallatin Valley, near Bozeman Montana. Gallatin Range bkg.
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  • Fall-colored cottonwoods & aspens surrounded by storm squalls in southern Gallatin Valley, near Bozeman Montana. Gallatin Range bkg.
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  • Fall-colored cottonwoods & aspens surrounded by storm squalls in southern Gallatin Valley, near Bozeman Montana. Gallatin Range bkg.
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  • New snow drapes fall colors in the Gallatin Range, near Bozeman.
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  • ANTARCTICA, Mount Vinson Expedition. Dr.Lis Densmore (MR) builds snow wall below continent's highest summit to protect camp from high polar winds. Sentinel Range, Ellsworth Mountains.
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  • Fall-colored aspens highlight northern slopes of Gallatin Range, near Bozeman Montana.
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  • Fall-colored aspens highlight northern slopes of Gallatin Range, near Bozeman Montana.
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  • Fall-colored cottonwoods & aspens surrounded by storm squalls in southern Gallatin Valley, near Bozeman Montana. Gallatin Range bkg.
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  • Beartooth Butte reflects in Beartooth Lake in the Absaroka Range of Wyoming, near Yellowstone. Willows bud in the foreground.
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  • A panorama of the Montana Ranch (foreground), southern Gallatin Valley and Gallatin Range, near Bozeman, Montana.
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  • A small pond is encircled by pastures in Montana's Gallatin Valley, near Bozeman.  Behind is Mount Ellis and the northern Gallatin Range.
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  • A small pond is encircled by pastures in Montana's Gallatin Valley, near Bozeman.  Behind is Mount Ellis and the northern Gallatin Range.
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  • An Arrowleaf Balsamroot (Balsamorhiza sagittata) plant flowers in Montana's Gallatin Valley.  Behind are Mount Ellis and the northern Gallatin Range.
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  • An Arrowleaf Balsamroot (Balsamorhiza sagittata) plant flowers in Montana's Gallatin Valley.  Behind are Mount Ellis and the northern Gallatin Range.
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  • Dramatic clouds soar over a wheat field in Montana's Gallatin Valley.  The Gallatin Range is in the background.
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  • Bighorn Sheep graze in the Madison Range near Big Sky, Montana.
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  • A spring storm hovers over a barn in Cottonwood Canyon of the Gallatin Range, near Bozeman, Montana.
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  • Rolling hills of the southern Gallatin Range unfold in front of Montana's Absaroka Mountains (bkg).
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  • Fall-colored cottonwoods & aspens surrounded by storm squalls in southern Gallatin Valley, near Bozeman Montana. Gallatin Range bkg.
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  • Fall-colored cottonwoods & aspens surrounded by storm squalls in southern Gallatin Valley, near Bozeman Montana. Gallatin Range bkg.
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  • Wind-generated lenticular clouds hover over the South Atlantic Ocean and the Salveson Range of southeastern 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. In the far background are peaks of the Wall Range.
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  • Gordon Wiltsie, Jay Jensen, Allan Pietrasanta and the manager of Pahalgam Hotel pose after the ski mountaineers finished a two-week traverse of the Great Himalaya Range, from Ladakh to Kashmir.  Wiltsie is suffering crushed vertebrae from an avalanche that engulfed the team, but in retrospect they were especially lucky to survive. A few months later a group of young trekkers was kidnapped from this town and never seen again.
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  • ANTARCTICA. 2525-meter Mount Zanuck in the Gothic Mountains, which are part of the Queen Maud Range, of the extensive Trans-Antarctic Mountains.
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  • ANTARCTICA. 88-year old Norman Vaughan first glimpses mountain in Trans-Antarctic Range named after him by Richard Byrd in 1929. He climbed it 2 weeks later.
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  • Beartooth Butte reflects in Beartooth Lake in the Absaroka Range of Wyoming, near Yellowstone.
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  • Beartooth Butte reflects in Beartooth Lake in the Absaroka Range of Wyoming, near Yellowstone.
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  • Beartooth Butte reflects in Beartooth Lake in the Absaroka Range of Wyoming, near Yellowstone.
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  • Beartooth Butte reflects in Beartooth Lake in the Absaroka Range of Wyoming, near Yellowstone.
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  • Beartooth Butte reflects in Beartooth Lake in the Absaroka Range of Wyoming, near Yellowstone.
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  • A panorama of the Montana Ranch (foreground), southern Gallatin Valley and Gallatin Range, near Bozeman, Montana.
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  • A small pond is encircled by pastures in Montana's Gallatin Valley, near Bozeman.  Behind is Mount Ellis and the northern Gallatin Range.
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  • Wildflowers bloom in a meadow in Montana's Gallatin Valley.  Behind are Mount Ellis and the northern Gallatin Range.
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  • A real estate sign advertises a pasture for sale in Montana's Gallatin Valley, near Bozeman. Mount Ellis and the southern Gallatin Range rise in the background.
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  • Fair weather cumulus clouds drift over pastures in Montana's Gallatin Valley, near Bozeman. Mount Ellis and the souther Gallatin Range rise in the background.
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  • Fair weather cumulus clouds drift over pastures in Montana's Gallatin Valley, near Bozeman. Mount Ellis and the southern Gallatin Range rise in the background.
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  • Fair weather cumulus clouds drift over pastures in Montana's Gallatin Valley, near Bozeman. Mount Ellis and the southern Gallatin Range rise in the background.
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  • Fair weather cumulus clouds drift over pastures in Montana's Gallatin Valley, near Bozeman. Mount Ellis and the southern Gallatin Range rise in the background.
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  • Fair weather cumulus clouds drift over pastures in Montana's Gallatin Valley, near Bozeman. Mount Ellis and the southern Gallatin Range rise in the background.
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