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  • A Peruvian Amazon Indian huddles under his hastily-made palm-leaf rain shelter.
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  • Wilder, a Yanayacu Indian, cuts palm leaves to weave together for a rain shelter in Peru's Amazon Jungle.
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  • Wilder, a Yanayacu Indian, cuts palm leaves to weave together for a rain shelter in Peru's Amazon Jungle.
    PEe 091111-911-2.jpg
  • Wilder, a Yanayacu Indian, weaves palm leaves together for a rain shelter in Peru's Amazon Jungle.
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  • Wilder, a Yanayacu Indian, cuts palm leaves to weave together for a rain shelter in Peru's Amazon Jungle.
    PEe 091111-896-2.jpg
  • Wilder, a Yanayacu Indian, cuts palm leaves to weave together for a rain shelter in Peru's Amazon Jungle.
    PEe 091111-872-2.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, men from the last nomadic clan of Komi reindeer herders eat and drink in their chum (tepee), waiting for the calving season to begin. Left to right:  Alexei Semyashkin , Alexei Vauchesky, Arthum Khantazeski, and Fyodor “Fedya” Vanutá (who is actually Nenet, not Komi, and unrelated to anyone else).
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  • During a rare time to relax north of the Arctic Circle in Russia,  the women of the last nomadic Komi reindeer herding clan gather for tea and biscuits in Marie Terentéva’s chum.  Left to Right:  Marie and Katerina Vaucheskaya (ages 72 & 38), Rema Chuprova (70+) & Marie Terentéva (77).
    RUe 070415-019.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, 77-year old Marie Terentéva, a member of the last nomadic Komi reindeer herding clan, relaxes by the wood stove in her cozy chum (tepee), which is much warmer than sub-freezing temperatures outside.
    RUe 070418-024.jpg
  • 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
  • Bedouin men wearing traditional keffiyeh scarves chat and share tea in a wool tent in Jordan's Wadi Rum, part of the Arabian Desert.
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  • In Snopa village, north of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a man chops wood to heat his family's home.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, 77-year old Marie Terentéva, a matriarch of the last nomadic Komi reindeer herding clan, serves dinner to her son Vasily  in the family's chum (tepee).
    RUe 070419-101.jpg
  • After a day of sledding north of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a nomadic group of Komi reindeer herders assembles its chums (tepees) around their pre-placed belongings.  Pictured here is 72-year old Marie Vaucheskaya, one of the clan's last remaining matriarchs.
    RUe 070416-303.jpg
  • After a day of sledding north of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a nomadic group of Komi reindeer herders assembles its chums (tepees) around their pre-placed belongings.  By the time the chums are erected, fires will be going in the stoves and tea almost ready.
    RUe 070416-283.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
  • During a rare time to relax, north of the Arctic Circle in Russia,  women of the last nomadic Komi reindeer herding clan gather for tea and biscuits in Marie Terentéva’s chum.  Left to Right:  Katerina ("Katya") Vaucheskaya,  Rema Chuprova  & Marie Terentéva.
    RUe 070415-054.jpg
  • 70+ year old Rema Chuprova, a member of the last nomadic Komi reindeer herding clan, relaxes in a cozy chum (tepee), which is much warmer than sub-freezing temperatures outside, north of the Arctic Circle in Russia.
    RUe 070415-040.jpg
  • 70+ year old Rema Chuprova, a member of the last nomadic Komi reindeer herding clan, relaxes in a cozy chum (tepee), which is much warmer than sub-freezing temperatures outside, north of the Arctic Circle in Russia.
    RUe 070415-035.jpg
  • Katerina ("Katya") Vaucheskaya, a member of the last nomadic Komi reindeer herding clan, relaxes in a cozy chum (tepee), which is much warmer than sub-freezing temperatures outside, north of the Arctic Circle in Russia.
    RUe 070415-032.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, 77-year old Marie Terentéva, a member of the last nomadic Komi reindeer herding clan, relaxes by the wood stove in her cozy chum (tepee), which is much warmer than sub-freezing temperatures outside.
    RUe 070415-014.jpg
  • Inuit mukluks & modern mitts dry in a hunter's hut on Canada's Baffin Island, where an expedition is storm-bound for 4 days.
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  • Staff at Adventure Network's Patriot Hills expediton base gather for an informal party in a snow cave they dug.
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  • Staff at Adventure Network's Patriot Hills expediton base gather for an informal party in a snow cave they dug.
    AX 3014.jpg
  • Staff at Adventure Network's Patriot Hills expediton base gather for an informal party in a snow cave they dug.
    AX 3011.jpg
  • Staff at Adventure Network's Patriot Hills expediton base gather for an informal party in a snow cave they dug.
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  • Michael Holmes, a cook at Patriot Hills expedition base near Antarctica's Ellsworth Mountains, collects meal ingredients from a huge snow cave that is used as a freezer.
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  • A cook at Adventure Network's Patriot Hills expediton base descends into a snow cave used as a huge outdoor freezer.
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  • In Snopa village, north of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a Komi man stands beside his draft horse.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, members of a nomadic Komi reindeer herding clan chop and chain saw wood to heat their chum (tepee).
    RUe 070420-261.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
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, nomadic Komi reindeer herder Marie Vaucheskaya (age 77) carries clean snow to her chum (tepee) to melt for water.
    RUe 070418-003.jpg
  • After a day of sledding north of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a nomadic group of Komi reindeer herders assembles its chums (tepees) around their pre-placed belongings.  By the time the chums are erected, fires will be going in the stoves and tea almost ready.
    RUe 070416-301.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
  • During a rare time to relax, north of the Arctic Circle in Russia,  women of the last nomadic Komi reindeer herding clan gather for tea and biscuits in Marie Terentéva’s chum.  Left to Right:  Katerina ("Katya") Vaucheskaya,  Rema Chuprova  & Marie Terentéva.
    RUe 070415-049.jpg
  • 77-year old Marie Terentéva, a member of the last nomadic Komi reindeer herding clan, relaxes in her cozy chum (tepee), which is much warmer than sub-freezing temperatures outside, north of the Arctic Circle in Russia.
    RUe 070415-030.jpg
  • During a rare time to relax north of the Arctic Circle in Russia,  the women of the last nomadic Komi reindeer herding clan gather for tea and biscuits in Marie Terentéva’s chum.  Left to Right:  Marie and Katerina Vaucheskaya (ages 72 & 38), Rema Chuprova (70+) & Marie Terentéva (77).
    RUe 070415-028.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, 77-year old Marie Terentéva, a member of the last nomadic Komi reindeer herding clan, relaxes by the wood stove in her cozy chum (tepee), which is much warmer than sub-freezing temperatures outside.
    RUe 070415-013.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, members of the last nomadic Komi reindeer herding clan wrap their chum (tepee) with a carefully-sewn patchwork of reindeer skins. Over this, they will place a layer of canvas.
    RUe 070414-479.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, Katerina Vaucheskaya, a member of the last nomadic Komi reindeer herding clan, arranges reindeer skins in the family's  their chum (tepee). Note the glass window in the background, a rare modern concession.
    RUe 070414-477.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, 70+ year old Rema Chuprova and one of her sons, members of the last nomadic Komi reindeer herding clan, erect the poles of their reindeer-skin chum (tepee).  The boards and spruce boughs help to keep the floor warm.
    RUe 070414-470.jpg
  • Reindeer antlers, which can be sold as Chinese medicine, are a valuable source of secondary income for the nomadic Komi reindeer herders who live north of the Arctic Circle in Russia.  These  are carefully preserved in the spring when animals drop their horns.
    RUe 070414-043.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a homemade pair of skis (with skins on the bottom) sits atop a nomadic Komi reindeer herder's sled.  These are often left loaded from one camp to the next.  In the background are chums (tepees).
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  • An emergency hut built by the British Antarctic Survey at Damoy Point on Wiencke Island, Antarctica.
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  • Sherpa women stand outside of a temporary hut they set up as a teahouse along the Mount Everest trail in Lobuche, Nepal,
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  • Staff at Adventure Network's Patriot Hills expediton base gather for an informal party in a snow cave they dug.
    AX 3010.jpg
  • Staff at Adventure Network's Patriot Hills expediton base gather for an informal party in a snow cave they dug.
    AX 3007.jpg
  • Staff at Adventure Network's Patriot Hills expediton base stand above a  snow cave they dug.
    AX 3002.jpg
  • Clients and staff at Adventure Network's Patriot Hills expediton base gather for dinner in the main dining tent, which is decorated for Christmas.
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  • Gate stations for a WWII Japanese internment camp under Sierra Nevada.
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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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  • 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 0214.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.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, ramshackle log house still provides shelter in Snopa village, close to the Arctic Ocean coast.
    RUe 070421-244.jpg
  • A Yellow-Bellied Marmot peers out from its shelter between talus boulders in California's Sierra Nevada.
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  • MONGOLIA, Darhad Valley. Young herder outside family's summer animal shelter.
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  • NEPAL, Kathmandu. An ascetic yogi practices one of his many positions in pilgrim's shelter at  Pashupatinath Temple.
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  • KATHMANDU, NEPAL. Hindu ascetic in pilgrim's shelter at Pashupatinath Temple, one of holiest shrines for Shiva.
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  • KATHMANDU, NEPAL. Hindu ascetic in pilgrim's shelter at Pashupatinath Temple, one of holiest shrines for Shiva.
    KM 2076.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 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 0210.jpg
  • A homeless village boy finds shelter at Mirpur Destitute Ramp near Dhaka, Bangladesh in 1977.  His mother had been left both widowed and destitute after both a cyclone and subsequent war of indepence in 1971.
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  • A homeless village women from Bangladesh, finds shelter at Mirpur Destitute Camp near Dhaka  in 1977.  She was left widowed, destitute and raped after both a a cyclone and brutal 1971 war of independence from Pakistan.
    BD 0204.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 0115.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 0114.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 0107.jpg
  • A Gentoo penguin Pygoscelis papua) stands in the rain to shelter its chicks on a muddy beach on Aitcho Island, Antarctica. Either side of its nest are huge whale bones.
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  • KATHMANDU, NEPAL. Hindu ascetic in pilgrim's shelter at Pashupatinath Temple, one of holiest shrines for Shiva.
    KM 2076.jpg
  • Cordillera Sarmiento, Patagonia, Chile. A mountaineer digs out a storm-choked entrance to a snow cave shelter.
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  • A crowd shelters under umbrellas as Hindu celebrants gather amongst pagodas to celebrate Krishna's birthday at the temple square in Patan Nepal, 1996.
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  • A crowd shelters under umbrellas as Hindu celebrants gather amongst pagodas to celebrate Krishna's birthday at the temple square in Patan Nepal, 1996.
    KM 3208.jpg
  • A King Penguin chick huddles by its parent amidst a huge rookery at Salisbury Plain, South Georgia, Antarctica.  Very young chicks are balanced on its parents' feet, sheltered from the cold.  During this time, the parents alternate every 3–7 days, one guarding the chick while the other forages for food. The guard phase lasts for about a month until they have grown much larger and are better able to both keep warm and protect themselves against skua gulls and other predators.
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  • A crowd shelters under umbrellas as Hindu celebrants gather amongst pagodas to celebrate Krishna's birthday at the temple square in Patan Nepal, 1996.
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  • A crowd shelters under umbrellas as Hindu celebrants gather amongst pagodas to celebrate Krishna's birthday at the temple square in Patan Nepal, 1996.
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