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  • A father gives his costumed son a sip of ceremonial, fermented mare's milk after he rode to victory in a 20km race at a traditional naadam festival on a remote pass near Muren, Mongolia. A victory in these competitions brings great family pride and to increase his odds, the boy rode barefoot and bareback.
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  • A proud father displays a plaque won by his costumed son, who rode bareback and barefoot in a 20km race at a traditional naadam festival near Muren, Mongolia. Victories in these competitions are a source of great family pride. (The medal on the horse is from an earlier race).
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  • A young, costumed  rider poses after winning a 20km race at a traditional naadam festival on a remote pass near Muren, Mongolia. The horse's medals are from earlier races and are a great source of family honor. The medals are from his previous victories, during which he rode barefoot and bareback to save weight.
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  • MOUNTAINEERING, ANTARCTICA.  Alex Lowe hugs Conrad Anker atop Rakekniven spire, Filchner Mts., Queen Maud Land. Jon Krakauer on right.
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  • MONGOLIA. A clan elder (carrying ceremonial, fermented mare's milk) leads young, costumed  winners - some who have ridden bareback- after a 20km race at a traditional naadam festival on a remote pass in Arbulag Sum, near Muren in Hovsgol Aimag, Mongolia. The medals on the horses are from earlier races and are a source of great family pride.
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  • A clan elder (who is singing) leads young, costumed  winners of a 20km horseback raceat a traditional naadam festival on a remote pass near Muren, Mongolia. Many of the youngsters rode barefoot and bareback to save weight.
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  • Kings Canyon National Park, California. Mountaineer atop Polemonium Peak in the Sierra Nevada.
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  • Climbers toss a rappel rope from the summit of Eichorn's Pinnacle on Cathedral Peak in Yosemite National Park, California.
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  • A statue of Damdiny Sukhbataar, the hero of Mongolia's independence from China, towers above Sukhbataar Square in front of the parliament building in Ulaanbaatar.
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  • A clan elder presents prizes after a traditional naadam festival on a remote pass near Muren, Mongolia.
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  • MONGOLIA. Young, costumed  riders - some  bareback- after winning a 20km race at a traditional naadam festival on a remote pass in Arbulag Sum, near Muren in Hovsgol Aimag, Mongolia. The horse's medals are from earlier races and are a great source of family honor.
    MGe 060626-107.jpg
  • The U.S. Capitol building rises behind the Peace Monument in Washington, D.C.
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  • The U.S. Capitol building rises behind the Peace Monument in Washington, D.C.
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  • Rick Ridgeway & Alex Lowe congratulate each other after reaching the  summit of Rakekniven spire in Queen Maud Land, Antarctica.
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  • Rock Climbers rappel off of Eichorn's Pinnacle on Cathedral Peak in Yosemite National Park, California.
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  • A mountaineer stands atop 14,040+ foot Starlight Peak, on the Palisade Crest in California's Sierra Nevada.  This summit divides Kings Canyon National Park (background) and John Muir Wilderness.
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  • A climber greets the sun as clouds part over Mount Humphreys on the crest of California's Sierra Nevada.
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  • Climbers ascend a pinnacle in California's eastern Sierra Nevada.
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  • CORD.SARMIENTO EXP., Team (MR) on Gremlin's Cap, one of higher peaks in this Patagonian range (Chile).
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  • Climbers top an unclimbed mountain in Chile's Cordillera Sarmiento.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. Jared Ogden & Greg Child on summit of Great Sail Peak, after month-long big wall climb above Stewart Valley. (MR)
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND. Canada, Mark Synnott wins drawing for leading pitch 1.
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  • 13-year old Ben Wiltsie climbs the Cain Route on Bugaboo Spire in Bugaboo Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada.  Behind him are the Vowell Glacier and the Howser Spire Massif.
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  • ANTARCTICA. Alex Lowe (MR) atop a pinnacle on 2850-meter Mount Bearskin in the Ellsworth Mountains.
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  • Norman and Carolyn Muegge Vaughan look back in triumph and exhaustion after they made the first ascent of Mount Vaughan in Antarctica, 2 days shy of Norman's 89th birthday.
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  • ANTARCTICA, Mount Vaughan Expedition. Carolyn Muegge-Vaughan lights 89 birthday "candles" for Norman Vaughan atop 10,302' summit named for him by Richard Byrd.
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  • ANTARCTICA, Queen Maud Mountains. Vern Tejas (MR) on false summit of 10,302-foot Mount Vaughan, near the South Pole in the Queen Maud Mountains, part of the vast Trans-Antarctic Mountains.  Mount Goodale bkg.
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  • ANTARCTICA, Queen Maud Mountains. Vern Tejas (MR) surveys route on 10,302-foot Mount Vaughan, near the South Pole, up which he is guiding Norman Vaughan, 88, after whom the peak was named in 1929 by Richard Byrd in honor of Vaughan's participation in Byrd's 1929 expedition to fly over the Pole. Trans-Antarctic Mountains.
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  • ANTARCTICA, Vern Tejas guides Norman Vaughan (88) & wife Carolyn up mountain named for Norman in 1929 by Admiral  Byrd.  (MR)
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  • ANTARCTICA. Mountaineering. Mike McDowell (MR) atop 15,292' (4661m) Mount Shinn, third highest peak on continent. (Ellsworth Mountains)
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  • Members of a National Geographic archaeology expedition overlook Cerro Victoris (in shadow), an obscure promontory deep in Peru's rugged Cordillera Vilcabamba, where soon they would find evidence of a long-past Inca commercial center and ceremonial site.
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