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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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  • 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.
    RUe 070414-318.jpg
  • A King Penguin strolls through decaying machinery at Grytviken, a recently abandoned whaling station on  South Georgia island, Antarctica.
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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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  • Sherpa men load a yak  with juniper firewood they have gathered under Cho La Pass near Mount Everest in Nepal's Khumbu Region.
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  • Horses stand in a corral at Eagle Rock Reserve, an subdivision near Bozeman, Montana, in which much of the open space is shared.
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  • Horses stand in a corral at Eagle Rock Reserve, an subdivision near Bozeman, Montana, in which much of the open space is shared.
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  • Horses stand in a corral at Eagle Rock Reserve, an subdivision near Bozeman, Montana, in which much of the open space is shared.
    MTe 120611-374.jpg
  • 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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  • Horses stand in a corral at Eagle Rock Reserve, an subdivision near Bozeman, Montana, in which much of the open space is shared.
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  • Horses stand in a corral at Eagle Rock Reserve, an subdivision near Bozeman, Montana, in which much of the open space is shared.
    MTe 120611-370.jpg
  • Horses stand in a corral at Eagle Rock Reserve, an subdivision near Bozeman, Montana, in which much of the open space is shared.
    MTe 120611-367.jpg
  • Franklin Bay, Beaufort. A dogsled team threads through pressure ridges.
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  • Northwest Territories, Canada. A dogsledding expedition sets up camp on Great Slave Lake.
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  • A yak train carrying equipment for trekkers climbs the hill above Namche Bazaar, the main trading town for the Sherpa people of Khumbu.
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  • A Sherpa woman herds yaks carrying trekking equipment above Namche Bazaar, the leading commmercial center of Nepal's Khumbu region.  Behind is Mount Thamserku.  (This photo was taken in 1979, before the explosion of trekking and mountaineering activity in the region.)
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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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  • A yak carries expedition equipment across a swinging bridge over a deep chasm on the trail to Mount Everest Base Camp in Nepal's Himalaya.
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  • Yak-Cattle crossbreeds called Dzos graze in front of prayer flags and a sacred chorten monument at Tengboche Monastery in Nepal's Himalaya. Fog wreathes Mount Thamserku in the background.
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  • A Sherpa guide herds a train of yaks carrying expedition equipment down from a climbing school run near the Cho La Pass by the Eastern Sierra Himalayan Expedition in fall 1980.  Cholatse Peak in the the right background.
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  • A Sherpa yak driver loads his animal on the Mount Everest trekking trail in the Khumbu region, Nepal.
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  • A photographer shoot pictures of American bison grazing by the road in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming.
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  • A photographer shoot pictures of American bison grazing by the road in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming.
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  • A photographer shoot pictures of American bison grazing by the road in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming.
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  • A Sherpa woman (Sherpani) unties her yak after unloading it in her village of Pheriche, near the base camp for Mount Everest.  (Photo taken in 1980)
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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.
    RUe 070414-314.jpg
  • 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.
    RUe 070416-271.jpg
  • 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.
    RUe 070416-064.jpg
  • 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.
    RUe 070416-019.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia,  nomadic Komi reindeer herders hold up netting of a temporary pen against a crush of animals.
    RUe 070414-279.jpg
  • 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.
    RUe 070414-197.jpg
  • 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.
    RUe 070416-123.jpg
  • 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.
    RUe 070416-063.jpg
  • Mongolian archaeologist Tovuudorj Sanjmyatov ("Sasha") (MR) sketches carvings on a 2700+ year-old, bronze age deer stone monument at Ulaan Tolgai archaeological site near Lake Erkhel, north of Muren, Mongolia.  Sasha is a pioneer Mongolian researcher, who did much work and publication during the Soviet era.   <br />
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  • Mongolian archaeologist Tovuudorj Sanjmyatov ("Sasha") (MR) sketches carvings on a 2700+ year-old, bronze age deer stone monument at Ulaan Tolgai archaeological site near Lake Erkhel, north of Muren, Mongolia.  Sasha is a pioneer Mongolian researcher, who did much work and publication during the Soviet era.  <br />
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder eats grilled reindeer meat as he waits for animals to arrive to pull his sled.
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  • MONGOLIA, Darhad Valley.  Prize-winning painting in "Blue Valley Festival" sponsored by BioRegions, International, a non-profit working on cultural preservation in the region.
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  • Ruby Valley, Nevada. A woman works on her old truck that broke down on a desert road.
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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.
    RUe 070414-276.jpg
  • A reindeer caravan herded by the last nomadic Komi clan crosses the tundra near Nizhnyaya  Pesha, in the Russian Arctic.
    RUe 070414-398.jpg
  • 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.
    RUe 070422-107.jpg
  • 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.
    RUe 070416-054.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, 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.
    RUe 070413-129.jpg
  • 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.
    RUe 070416-101.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.
    RUe 070416-210.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, Piotr Terentév, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder, drags a string of reluctant reindeer from a temporary pen to pull his mother’s sleds.
    RUe 070416-134.jpg
  • A woman and her children flee oncoming plow oxen in a village near Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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  • An ox cart carryin lumber trots down a street in  Dhaka, Bangladesh in 1977.
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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.
    RUe 070423-151.jpg
  • 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.
    RUe 070423-149.jpg
  • 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.”)
    RUe 070422-091.jpg
  • 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.”)
    RUe 070422-088.jpg
  • 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.
    RUe 070422-049.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 070422-037.jpg
  • 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 070422-035.jpg
  • 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.
    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.
    RUe 070420-151.jpg
  • 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.
    RUe 070420-138.jpg
  • 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.
    RUe 070417-242.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.
    RUe 070417-234.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.
    RUe 070417-230.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.
    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.
    RUe 070417-176.jpg
  • 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.
    RUe 070417-124.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.
    RUe 070417-111.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.
    RUe 070417-064.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.
    RUe 070416-242.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.
    RUe 070416-240.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.
    RUe 070416-239.jpg
  • 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.
    RUe 070416-196.jpg
  • 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.
    RUe 070416-164.jpg
  • 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.
    RUe 070416-119.jpg
  • 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.
    RUe 070416-118.jpg
  • 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.
    RUe 070416-077.jpg
  • 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.
    RUe 070416-055.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
  • 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, 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.
    RUe 070414-455.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 070414-423.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
  • 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.
    RUe 070414-385.jpg
  • A reindeer caravan herded by the last nomadic Komi clan crosses vast frozen tundra north of the Arctic Circle, near Nizhnyaya Pesha, Russia.
    RUe 070414-363.jpg
  • A reindeer caravan herded by the last nomadic Komi clan crosses vast frozen tundra north of the Arctic Circle, near Nizhnyaya Pesha, Russia.
    RUe 070414-352.jpg
  • A reindeer caravan herded by the last nomadic Komi clan crosses vast frozen tundra north of the Arctic Circle, near Nizhnyaya Pesha, Russia.
    RUe 070414-349.jpg
  • A reindeer caravan herded by the last nomadic Komi clan crosses vast frozen tundra north of the Arctic Circle, near Nizhnyaya Pesha, Russia.
    RUe 070414-347.jpg
  • 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.
    RUe 070414-273.jpg
  • 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.
    RUe 070414-254.jpg
  • Human-powered transport vies with trucks and buses  in the streets of  Dhaka, Bangladesh in 1977.
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  • Villagers use a cart to take home a cow they bought at a market in Dhaka, Bangladesh in 1977.
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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.
    RUe 070423-188.jpg
  • 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.
    RUe 070423-178.jpg
  • 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.
    RUe 070422-146.jpg
  • 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.
    RUe 070422-125.jpg
  • 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.”)
    RUe 070422-092.jpg
  • 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.
    RUe 070417-244.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.
    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.
    RUe 070416-234.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.
    RUe 070416-218.jpg
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