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  • Bristlecone pines, among world's oldest living trees, survive above 11,000 feet elevation in the Patriarch Grove in the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest in California's White Mountains.
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  • Bristlecone pines, among world's oldest living trees, survive above 11,000 feet elevation in the Patriarch Grove in the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest in California's White Mountains.
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  • Bristlecone pines, among world's oldest living trees, survive above 11,000 feet elevation in the Patriarch Grove in the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest in California's White Mountains.
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  • Bristlecone pines, among world's oldest living trees, survive above 11,000 feet elevation in the Patriarch Grove in the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest in California's White Mountains.
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  • Bristlecone pines, among world's oldest living trees, survive above 11,000 feet elevation in the Patriarch Grove in the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest in California's White Mountains.
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  • Bristlecone pines, among world's oldest living trees, survive above 11,000 feet elevation in the Patriarch Grove in the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest in California's White Mountains.
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  • Bristlecone pines, among world's oldest living trees, survive above 11,000 feet elevation in the Patriarch Grove in the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest in California's White Mountains.
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  • Bristlecone pines, among world's oldest living trees, survive above 11,000 feet elevation in the Patriarch Grove in the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest in California's White Mountains.
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  • Bristlecone pines, among world's oldest living trees, survive above 11,000 feet elevation in the Patriarch Grove in the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest in California's White Mountains.
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  • Bristlecone pines, among world's oldest living trees, survive above 11,000 feet elevation in the Patriarch Grove in the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest in California's White Mountains.
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  • Bristlecone pines, among world's oldest living trees, survive above 11,000 feet elevation in the Patriarch Grove in the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest in California's White Mountains.
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  • Bristlecone pines, among world's oldest living trees, survive above 11,000 feet elevation in the Patriarch Grove in the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest in California's White Mountains.
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  • Bristlecone pines, among world's oldest living trees, survive above 11,000 feet elevation in the Patriarch Grove in the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest in California's White Mountains.
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  • Bristlecone pines, among world's oldest living trees, survive above 11,000 feet elevation in the Patriarch Grove in the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest in California's White Mountains.
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  • Bristlecone pines, among world's oldest living trees, survive above 11,000 feet elevation in the Patriarch Grove in the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest in California's White Mountains.
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  • Bristlecone pines, among world's oldest living trees, survive above 11,000 feet elevation in the Patriarch Grove in the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest in California's White Mountains.
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  • A twisted, fallen white pine survives on an island in Lake of the Woods,  Ontario, Canada.
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  • Bristlecone pines, among world's oldest living trees, survive above 11,000 feet elevation in the Patriarch Grove in the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest in California's White Mountains.
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  • Bristlecone pines, among world's oldest living trees, survive above 11,000 feet elevation in the Patriarch Grove in the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest in California's White Mountains.
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  • Bristlecone pines, among world's oldest living trees, survive above 11,000 feet elevation in the Patriarch Grove in the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest in California's White Mountains.
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  • Bristlecone pines, among world's oldest living trees, survive above 11,000 feet elevation in the Patriarch Grove in the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest in California's White Mountains.
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  • Bristlecone pines, among world's oldest living trees, survive above 11,000 feet elevation in the Patriarch Grove in the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest in California's White Mountains.
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  • Bristlecone pines, among world's oldest living trees, survive above 11,000 feet elevation in the Patriarch Grove in the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest in California's White Mountains.
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  • Bristlecone pines, among world's oldest living trees, survive above 11,000 feet elevation in the Patriarch Grove in the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest in California's White Mountains.
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  • Bristlecone pines, among world's oldest living trees, survive above 11,000 feet elevation in the Patriarch Grove in the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest in California's White Mountains.
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  • Bristlecone pines, among world's oldest living trees, survive above 11,000 feet elevation in the Patriarch Grove in the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest in California's White Mountains.
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  • Bristlecone pines, among world's oldest living trees, survive above 11,000 feet elevation in the Patriarch Grove in the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest in California's White Mountains.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. Inuit hunter Laimake Palluq hides behind portable blind while aiming at ringed seal, Baffin Bay.
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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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  • 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, 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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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. Inuit hunter, Jayko Apak (MR), chops fishing hole in frozen lake in Stewart Valley.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND,  Nunavut, Canada, Inuit hunters Laimake Palluq & Jayko Apak study fish beside a seal breathing hole on frozen Baffin Bay.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. Inuit hunters pull komatik sled through white-out conditions in a blizzard.
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  • Young Inuit hunter Ben Illuaq aims his shotgun at a snowshoe on the tundra of Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada.
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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, reindeer crush together in panic and climb atop each other in a temporary pen as nomadic Komi reindeer herders capture some of them to pull their sleds.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, 77-year old Marie Terentéva, wears a reindeer-skin lined malitsa robe to keep her warm as she waits to herd reindeer into the pen. She is one of the matriarchs of the last nomadic Komi reindeer herding clan.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, nomadic Komi reindeer herders grill reindeer meat on a stick over coals of an outdoor campfire.
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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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  • An Inuit hunter pokes his harpoon at an iceberg frozen into the sea ice of Baffin Bay, west of Baffin Island in Nunavut, Canada.  This source of remarkably pure water has drifted in from the rapidly melting icecap of Greenland.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. Inuit hunters Laimake Palluq & Jayko Apak look for seals on Frozen Baffin Bay.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND,  Nunavut, Canada. Inuit hunter Laimake Palluq hides behind portable blind while stalking a ringed seal sleeping on frozen Baffin Bay.
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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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  • 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, reindeer crush together in panic and climb atop each other in a temporary pen as nomadic Komi reindeer herders capture some of them to pull their sleds.
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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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  • 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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  • In Snopa village, north of the Arctic Circle in Russia, men chat in front of a building built from spruce logs harvested in the nearby taiga forests.
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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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  • 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, domesticated reindeer charge across an interface of tundra and taiga forest near Snopa village, herded by a nomadic Komi clan.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, reindeer harnessed to a sled graze on vast fields of lichen from the genus Cladonia, (which abounds in the foreground in this image and is sometimes mistakenly called reindeer “moss.”)
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, reindeer harnessed to a sled graze on vast fields of lichen from the genus Cladonia, (which abounds in the foreground in this image and is sometimes mistakenly called reindeer “moss.”)
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  • 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.
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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.
    RUe 070422-037.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.
    RUe 070422-024.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.
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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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  • 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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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, 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, Vasily Terentév, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder, drags a string of reluctant reindeer from a temporary pen to pull his mother’s sleds.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder drags a string of reluctant animals from a temporary pen to pull one of his sleds.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, reindeer crush together in panic and climb atop each other in a temporary pen as nomadic Komi reindeer herders capture some of them to pull their sleds.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, reindeer crush together in panic and climb atop each other in a temporary pen as nomadic Komi reindeer herders capture some of them to pull their sleds.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, members of the last remaining nomadic Komi clan herd reindeer into a temporary pen where they can select animals to pull their sleds.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, members of the last nomadic Komi clan herd reindeer into a temporary pen where they can select animals to pull their sleds.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, 77-year old Marie Terentéva, wears a reindeer-skin lined malitsa robe to keep her warm as she waits to herd reindeer into the pen. She is one of the matriarchs of the last nomadic Komi reindeer herding clan.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, 77-year old Marie Terentéva, wears a reindeer-skin lined malitsa robe to keep her warm as she waits to herd reindeer into the pen. She is one of the matriarchs of the last nomadic Komi reindeer herding clan.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, 77-year old Marie Terentéva, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder,  walks in front of spruce trees in a taiga forest while waiting for reindeer to be captured to pull her sled.
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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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  • Writer Gretel Ehrlich watches as a reindeer caravan herded by the last nomadic Komi clan loads its sleds on the vast frozen tundra north of the Arctic Circle, near Nizhnyaya Pesha, Russia.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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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, 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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  • Videographer Andrew Okpeaha MacLean films  on the 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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