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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. Jared Ogden & Alex Lowe enjoy a hot drink in portaledge tent high on Great Sail Peak.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. Inuit hunters sit out a storm in a tent, catching up on regional gossip on a short-wave radio.  (L to R: Laimakie Palluq, Jushua Illuaq & Joannasie Apak).
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  • 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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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Canada. Greg Child surveys sudden meltwater lake threatening to flood base camp tent during Sail Peak climbing expedition.
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  • A reindeer-herding (Tsaatan) mother & her baby sell hand-made souvenirs to tourists visiting Lake Hovsgol and the Horidal Saridag Mountains in Mongolia's Hovsgol National Park. They live in the tipi tent in the background.
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  • A camper enters his tent below the stars and Cascade Mountain in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada.
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  • Victor Boyarsky snacks on cheese in his tent at the South Pole, about halfway through the 1989-1990 Trans-Antarctica Expedition.
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  • Victor Boyarsky writes the latitude and longitude on his tent at the South Pole, about halfway through the 1989-1990 Trans-Antarctica Expedition.  (The latitude does not read an exact 90 degrees south because he is camped a few hundred meters from the true Pole.
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  • Jean-Louis Etienne & Victor Boyarsky relax in their tent at the South Pole, halfway through the 1989-1990 Trans-Antarctica Expedition.
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  • Keizo Funatsu melts snow for water in his tent at the South Pole, halfway through the 1989-1990 Trans-Antarctica Expedition.
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  • Cordillera Vilcabamba, Peru. Ben Wiltsie sleeps in a tent under the full moon atop Cerro Victoria. In background are Cerro Corihuayrachina and low fog in canyons below.
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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 mother and her sons wake up in a tent during a camping trip to California's eastern Sierra Nevada.
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  • Jan-Marc Baker cooking in tent in Sierra Nevada, John Muir Wilderness, California.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. Greg Child (MR) sets up tent in snowstorm during Great Sail Peak expedition.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Canada. Greg Child surveys sudden meltwater lake threatening to flood base camp tent during Sail Peak climbing expedition.
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  • A mountaineer looks out with surprise at a sudden meltwater stream that has suddenly started flowing under his tent on Canada's Baffin Island.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, NUNAVUT, CANADA. Alex Lowe & Mark Synott (MR) set up tent in a blizzard north of the Arctic Circle, near Sam Ford Fjord, en route to climbing expedition north of Clyde River.
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  • A cook (Michael Holmes) serves fish for dinner in the dining tent at Adventure Network's Patriot Hills expediton base, the first private aviation hub in Antarctica.
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  • A cook (Michael Holmes) serves dinner in the dining tent at Adventure Network's Patriot Hills expediton base, the first private aviation hub in Antarctica.
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  • A cook (Michael Holmes) for the dining tent at Adventure Network's  Patriot Hills expediton base serves dinner made from fresh food flown in from South America.  On right is Mike Sharp, base manager.
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  • ANTARCTICA, Mount Vaughan Expedition. Norman Vaughan (88) and his guide Vern Tejas in base camp tent. (MR)
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  • NEPAL, HIMALAYA. Buddhist nomad in tent north of Annapurna massif.
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  • Will Steger fills water bottles with melted snow while Qin Dahe sips tea in their tent at the South Pole, about halfway through the 1989-1990 Trans-Antarctica Expedition.
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  • Geoff Somers and Keizo Funatsu melt snow for water in their tent at the South Pole, halfway through the 1989-1990 Trans-Antarctica Expedition.
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  • Cordillera Sarmiento, Patagonian range, Patagonia, Chile. Snow bound in a tent at base camp.
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  • 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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  • Anne Kershaw and Fran Orlo admire a birthday card painted by Conrad Anker (not shown) in the dinning tent at Adventure Network's Patriot Hills expediton base.
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  • ANTARCTICA. Mountaineer (MR) digs out after during a blizzard at Camp Two during first ascent of 10,302-foot Mount Vaughan, near the South Pole. Later, winds blew over the snow walls and nearly crushed the tents.
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  • 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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  • 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.
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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).
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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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  • 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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  • A mountaineer cooks in a remote Patagonian snow cave.
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  • ANTARCTICA. Alex Lowe & Conrad Anker(MR) camped on Patton Glacier, Ellsworth Mountains.
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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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  • ANTARCTICA. Jerry Corr (MR) in windy camp at 83 degrees south latitude during South Pole Ski Expedition in 1988.
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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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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. Greg Child & Mark Synnott endure extended rain in portaledge camp high on Great Sail Peak, an Arctic big wall rock climb.
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  • MOUNTAINEERING. Alex Lowe in portaledge camp high on overhanging granite wall on Great Sail Peak, Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada.
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  • 88-year old Norman Vaughan exhausted after first ascent of an Antarctic mountain named after him (Mount Vaughan.)
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  • ANTARCTICA, Mount Vaughan Expedition. Camp I (Camp Goodale) on north ridge of Mount Vaughan.  Base camp with Twin Otter ski planes bkg.
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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).
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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
  • A reindeer-herding (Tsaatan) mother & her baby sell hand-made souveniers to tourists visiting Lake Hovsgol and the Horidal Saridag Mountains in Mongolia's Hovsgol National Park.
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  • Sitting below the Big Dipper, a shooting star and Cascade Mountain, a camper admires moonlit scenes in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada.
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  • MOUNTAINEERING, SPITSBERGEN, Norway. Jay Jensen (MR) rewarms from sub-zero polar cold on ski expedition at 80 degrees north latitude.
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  • Having reached the South Pole, about halfway through the 1989-1990 Trans-Antarctica Expedition, Jean-Louis Etienne and Victor Boyarsky attempt to radio news to the outside world.
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  • MOUNTAINEERING, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming.  Kristen Ulmer at Lower Saddle camp below Grand Teton.
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  • Camp in Dzongla Meadows near Cho La pass, Ama Dablam bkg. Khumbu Region.
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  • ANTARCTICA, Queen Maud Land.  Mountaineer pees in a barrel. Antarctic protocol is to fly out anything imported to the continent, including human waste.
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  • CAMPING, Jared Ogden at Glacier Lake, by Cirque of the Unclimbables, NWT,Canada
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  • CAMPING. Jared Ogden & Jim Zellers at Glacier Lake, by Cirque of the Unclimbables, Northwest Territories,Canada
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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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  • A trekker camps by Lake Karakul in the Pamir Mountains of Xinjiang province in far western China. Mustagh Ata background (24,750'). Mark Newcomb (MR)
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  • CHINA, Xinjiang Province. Mark Newcomb<br />
(MR) writes in his journal in camp by Lake Karakul in Pamir Mountains.
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  • CAMPING. Backpackers set up camp in Arches National Park, Utah.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. A sleepy Mark Synnott belays a climber from inside his Portaledge, high on Great Sail Peak, an Arctic big wall climb.
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  • A note explains camp etiquette to mountaineers visiting Adventure Network's Mount Vinson Base Camp.
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  • Archaeologist Dr. Johan Reinhard meets with his team during an expedition to 22,110-foot Volcan Llullaillaco in northern Argentina, where they later found the world’s highest mummies from an ancient Inca sacrifice.
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  • ANTARCTICA. Ski mountaineer sleeps outside at Patriot Hills Tourist Expedition Base at 80 degrees south latitude in the Ellsworth Mountains.
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  • Alex Lowe climbs on a boulder at the base camp for big wall climbing expedition up Great Sail Peak (not visible) on Canada's Baffin Island.
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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).
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a trans-polar jet flies over a chum (tepee) of the vanishing Komi reindeer herding people.
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  • 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.
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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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  • 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
  • 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.
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  • 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
  • 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).
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  • 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.
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Wildflowers grow above an archaeologists' camp at Ulaan Tolgoi ("Red Hill"), west of Lake Erkhel and north of Muren, Mongolia.
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  • Sitting below Cascade Mountain, a camper admires moonlit scenes in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada.
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  • Sitting below the Big Dipper and Cascade Mountain, a camper admires moonlit scenes in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada.
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  • INTERNATIONAL ARCTIC PROJECT, Expedition members plot most efficient route from North Pole to Ellesmere Island.
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  • Arctic Ocean, Northwest Territories, Canada.	A Russian expedition member takes his daily snow bath in camp.
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  • INTERNATIONAL ARCTIC PROJECT, Will Steger updates journal in camp on frozen Arctic Ocean, Northwest Territories, Canada.
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  • Jean-Louis Etienne writes in his journal at the South Pole, about halfway through the 1989-1990 Trans-Antarctica Expedition.
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  • Will Steger refuels his Coleman Stove - a vital survival tool - at the South Pole, about halfway through the 1989-1990 Trans-Antarctica Expedition.
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  • Keizo Funatsu and Victor Boyarsky celebrate their arrival at the South Pole,  about halfway through the 1989-1990 Trans-Antarctica Expedition.
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  • Geoff Somers reads mail from home after reaching the South Pole, about halfway through the 1989-1990 Trans-Antarctica Expedition.
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  • MOUNTAINEERING, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, Peter Spricenieks at Lower Saddle camp below Grand Teton.
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  • EXPEDITION. Michael Graber show feelings about breakfast in base camp for big wall expedition to climb Rakekniven Spire in Queen Maud Land, Antarctica.
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  • MOUNTAINEERING, ANTARCTICA. Alex Lowe in Portaledge camp 1700' up Rakekniven spire, Filchner Mountains, Queen Maud Land.
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  • An expedition to climb Rakekniven spire (L) works in their base camp in the Filchner Mountains, Queen Maud Land, Antarctica.
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  • CAMPING, Jared Ogden at Glacier Lake, by Cirque of the Unclimbables, NWT,Canada
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  • CAMPING, Jared Ogden & Jim Zellers at Glacier Lake, by Cirque of the Unclimbables, NWT,Canada
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