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  • Arctic Ocean, Nunavut, Canada. A dog musher and his team run across the frozen ocean near Gjoa Haven.	color image,photography,outdoors,day,one person,front view,caucasian appearance,one mid adult man only,full length,medium group of animals,sled dogs,sled,dogsleds,sledding,huskies,running,running,pulling,working animals,ice,arctic ocean,nunavut,canada,gjoa haven,mid adult,adventure,musher,sun,sky,frozen,cold,copy space,team,teamwork,sunlight,shadows,Paul Pregont
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  • Risking a dousing north of the Arctic Circle in Russia, Alexei Semyashkin, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder,  steers his sled straight through a meltwater bog on the tundra near Snopa village.
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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, 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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  • 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.
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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.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, Arthum Khantazeski, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder, relaxes on his sled after a long day watching the animals owned by his clan.
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  • 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.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, Piotr Terentev, of the the last nomadic Komi reindeer herder, slows down a sled to keep it from running over reindeer as their caravan descends into a stream bed.
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  • A reindeer caravan herded by the last nomadic Komi clan crosses vast frozen tundra north of the Arctic Circle, near Nizhnyaya Pesha, Russia. Driving this sled is Stass Pan'kov.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a sled stacked with reindeer hides awaits harnessing to reindeer for ongoing migrations of the nomadic Komi clan.
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  • 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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  • 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.
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  • A polar hunter's dog sled crosses a frozen fjord on Spitsbergen Island.
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  • INTERNATIONAL ARCTIC PROJECT. Will Steger's sled dogs run through new snow near North Pole on Arctic Ocean, during 1995 expedition from Russia to Canada.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. Inuit hunters pull komatik sled through white-out conditions in a blizzard.
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  • 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.
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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.
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  • Arctic Ocean, near Cape Bathurst, Northwest Territories, Canada.	An explorer reads a chart in a tent while sled dogs wait outside.
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  • INTERNATIONAL ARCTIC PROJECT EXPEDITION. Dogs & team struggle to keep sled from sinking into 10,000'-deep Arctic Ocean after thin ice broke near North Pole.
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  • "Chicago" a sled dog, snarls at one of his team mates while crossing the Arctic Ocean with explorer Will Steger.
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  • Greg Child rides in a komatik sled pulled by a snowmobile, en route to a climbing expedition on Great Sail Peak north of the Arctic Circle on Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada.
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  • ANTARCTICA, Mount Vinson Expedition. Dr. Lis Densmore (MR) pulls a heavy sled to Camp One, en route to becoming first woman to climb continent's 16 058-foot highest mountain. 15,918-foot Mount Tyree (third highest) is in background.  Ellsworth Mountains.
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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.
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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.
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  • INTERNATIONAL ARCTIC PROJECT, Expedition Leader Will Steger & Ulrik Vedel with sled dogs.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. Inuit hunter, snowmobile and kamatik sled in Stewart Valley.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, men in the the last nomadic Komi reindeer herding clan slow down sleds to keep them from running over reindeer as they descend into a stream bed.
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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, prepares to drive a train of sleds across the tundra.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, men in the the last nomadic Komi reindeer herding clan slow down sleds to keep them from running over reindeer as they descend into a stream bed.
    RUe 070414-423.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, men in the the last nomadic Komi reindeer herding clan slow down sleds to keep them from running over reindeer as they descend into a stream bed.
    RUe 070414-412.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, men in the the last nomadic Komi reindeer herding clan slow down sleds to keep them from running over reindeer as they descend into a stream bed.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, men in the the last nomadic Komi reindeer herding clan slow down sleds to keep them from running over reindeer as they descend into a stream bed.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. Inuit Guides prepare to load snowmobile sleds (kamatiks) in Clyde River.
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  • Reinhold & Hubert Messner test sleds amidst pressure ridges before attempting to cross the Arctic Ocean from Severnaya Zemlya, Russia, to Canada, via the North Pole. Background mist rises from open water leads. Temperature is about minus 35 degrees F.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, Katerina ("Katya") Vaucheskaya, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder, pampers her dogs as she prepares one of her sleds for migration to another camp.
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  • 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.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, nomadic Komi reindeer herder Stass Pan‛kov rests on a stick as he waits for the reindeer herd to arrive to pull his sleds.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, nomadic Komi reindeer herder Stass Pan‛kov jokes with his companions as he waits for the reindeer herd to arrive to pull his sleds.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. Inuit Guides load climbing expedition gear into komatik sleds before departing from Clyde River.
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  • As rapidly-approaching spring melts snow on the arctic Russian tundra, Alexei Semyashkin, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder,  charges with his team through a pool atop the permafrost.  Within weeks these pools will generate enough mosquitoes to drive both men and reindeer nearly insane, at which point they will migrate again to drier mountains further north.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, Piotr Terentév, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder, drives his team along a dangerous melting stream in search of fishing holes.
    RUe 070417-230.jpg
  • A reindeer caravan herded by the last nomadic Komi clan crosses vast frozen tundra north of the Arctic Circle, near Nizhnyaya Pesha, Russia.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a reindeer herding dog traveling with the Komi clan howls with other dogs in the group
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  • As rapidly-approaching spring melts snow in the Russian arctic, Alexei Semyashkin, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder, charges with his team through an interface of tundra and taiga forests.
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  • As rapidly-approaching spring melts snow on the arctic Russian tundra, Alexei Semyashkin, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder,  charges with his team through a pool atop the permafrost.  Within weeks these pools will generate enough mosquitoes to drive both men and reindeer nearly insane, at which point they will migrate again to drier mountains further north.
    RUe 070422-032.jpg
  • As rapidly-approaching spring melts snow in the Russian arctic, Alexei Semyashkin, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder, charges with his team through an interface of tundra and taiga forests.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, Piotr Terentév, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder, fishes with primitive gear through a hole chopped in a frozen stream.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, Piotr Terentév, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder, fishes with primitive gear through a hole chopped in a frozen stream.
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  • 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.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, Piotr Terentév, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder, drives his team along a dangerous melting stream in search of fishing holes.
    RUe 070417-200.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, Piotr Terentév, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder, drives his team along a dangerous melting stream in search of fishing holes.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, Piotr Terentév, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder, surveys the vast, frozen tundra as his reindeer rest from wallowing through deep, wet spring snow.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, Piotr Terentév, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder, drives his team across the tundra, where spring snow is soft enough to make travel difficult.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a Komi reindeer-herding clan travels across the tundra through heavy whiteout fog that makes navigation difficult.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a Komi reindeer-herding clan travels across the tundra through heavy whiteout fog that makes navigation difficult.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a Komi reindeer-herding clan travels across the tundra through heavy whiteout fog that makes navigation difficult.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a Komi reindeer-herding clan travels across the tundra through heavy whiteout fog that makes navigation difficult.
    RUe 070416-237.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a Komi reindeer-herding clan travels across the tundra through heavy whiteout fog that makes navigation difficult.
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  • A reindeer caravan herded by the last nomadic Komi clan crosses vast frozen tundra north of the Arctic Circle, near Nizhnyaya Pesha, Russia.
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  • A reindeer caravan herded by the last nomadic Komi clan crosses vast frozen tundra north of the Arctic Circle, near Nizhnyaya Pesha, Russia.
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  • A reindeer caravan herded by the last nomadic Komi clan crosses vast frozen tundra north of the Arctic Circle, near Nizhnyaya Pesha, Russia.
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  • A reindeer caravan herded by the last nomadic Komi clan crosses vast frozen tundra north of the Arctic Circle, near Nizhnyaya Pesha, Russia.
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  • A reindeer caravan herded by the last nomadic Komi clan crosses vast frozen tundra north of the Arctic Circle, near Nizhnyaya Pesha, Russia.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • As rapidly-approaching spring melts snow in the Russian arctic, Alexei Semyashkin, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder,  walks his team through a snowstorm at the edge of a taiga forest.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, Piotr Terentév, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder, drives his team along a dangerous melting stream in search of fishing holes.
    RUe 070417-234.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, Piotr Terentév, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder, drives his team across the tundra, where spring snow is soft enough to make travel difficult.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a Komi reindeer-herding clan travels across the tundra through heavy whiteout fog that makes navigation difficult.
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  • Franklin Bay, Beaufort. A dogsled team threads through pressure ridges.
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  • INTERNATIONAL ARCTIC PROJECT.  Julie Hansen & Takako Takano wait for Victor Boyarsky to scout route thru pressure ice on frozen Arctic Ocean.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, NUNAVUT, CANADA. Inuit guides, snowmobiles & Great Sail Peak expedition members beside icebergs on frozen Baffin Bay.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. Inuit snowmobiles pull mountaineering expedition members across frozen lake in remote Stewart Valley, north of Clyde River.  The temperature is below zero, F, and Sail Peaks are in background.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. Mountaineering expedition & its Inuit guides' snowmobiles parked by iceberge on frozen Baffin Bay.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder eats grilled reindeer meat as his dog hopes for a bite.
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  • DOGSLEDDING, International Arctic Project. Team led by Will Steger (MR) threads between pressure ridges on frozen Arctic Ocean shortly after leaving Severnaya Zemlya, Russia, en route to Canada via the North Pole. Air temperature is -40 degrees.
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  • Northwest Territories, Canada. A dogsledding expedition sets up camp on Great Slave Lake.
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  • Expedition members ski near the wind-whipped Filchner Mountains in Queen Maud Land, Antarctica.
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  • A worker at Adventure Network's Patriot Hills Expedition base ferries empty fuel drums to a C-130 Hercules that has landed on a bare ice runway.
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  • INTERNATIONAL ARCTIC PROJECT. Team members eat lunch in lee of a dogsled while crossing Arctic Ocean. Takano Takako, Victor Boyarsy & Will Steger (MR).
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  • INTERNATIONAL ARCTIC PROJECT. Dog teams mush across frozen Great Slave Lake, Northwest Territories, Canada.
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  • Great Slave Lake, Northwest Territories, Canada.	A dog musher tosses bricks of food to his hungry team.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND. Expedition members in Clyde River, enroute to big wall climbing expedition.
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  • Nunavut, Canada. Inuit tour guide descent glacial moraine on Bylot Island, north of Baffin Island.
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  • With gusts in his face, South Pole Ski Expedition member J.K. Bajaj of India (MR) negotiates wind-sculpted sastrugi snow by a small nunatak at 80 degrees south latitude in Antarctica.
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  • 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.
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  • Eclipse Sound, north of Baffin Island, Canada.	A tourist in a komatik sled behind a snowmobile on the frozen ocean.
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  • Eclipse Sound, near Bylot Island, Nunavut, Canada.	Tourists in an Inuit komatik sled cross a lead in frozen sea ice.
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  • INTERNATIONAL ARCTIC PROJECT. Victor Boyarsky (MR) starts day of dog sledding on frozen Arctic Ocean with a snow bath, despite frigid temperatures.
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  • Tourists ride in komatik sleds behind snowmobiles on frozen Eclipse Sound
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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, a wayward dog from a nearby community lies skinned and dead after chasing reindeer herded by the nomadic Komi people.
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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)
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a helicopter lands at Snopa village to ferry passengers back to the nearest big city, Arkhangel'sk.
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  • As rapidly-approaching spring melts snow in the Russian arctic, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder watches a tractor pull a load of hay (for horses and cattle) towards nearby Snopa village.
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  • As rapidly-approaching spring melts snow in the Russian arctic,  nomadic Komi reindeer herders watch a tractor pull a load of hay (for horses and cattle) towards nearby Snopa village.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, Vasily Chuprov, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder, drinks tea in the door of a chum (tepee).
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, Piotr Terentev, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder, saws wood to heat his family's chum (tepee). Watching him is his 77-year old mother, Marie.
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  • Spitsbergen Island, Svalbard Archipelago, Norway.	An expedition skier crosses sastrugi on frozen Billefjord.
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