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  • Mountain police enter the Siq, a huge slot canyon leading to Petra, a World Heritage Site.  Behind is "The Treasury," one of this ancient city's signature features.
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  • A view of Ullaanbaatar, Mongolia from the Zaisan Monument, which was built by the Soviets to commemorate people killed in World War II.
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  • SPITSBERGEN, Norway. Soviet milkmaid & world's northernmost cows at 79 deg. latitude in indoor farm at Pyramiden (a Russian mining town).
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  • A Memba matriarch plays with her grandson’s puppy at their farm in Bayi village in the Tsangpo River Gorge, one of the deepest canyons in the world, in the Himalaya of eastern Tibet, China.
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  • A Memba man sits outside his barn outside Bayi village, at the dowsnstream terminus of the Tsangpo River Gorge, one of the deepest canyons in the world, in the Himalaya of eastern Tibet, China.
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  • An elderly couple outside their house in the Tsangpo River Gorge, one of the world’s deepest canyons, in remote southeastern Tibet, China.
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  • A farmer and his mother tend cattle in Kyikar village at the upstream end of the Tsangpo River Gorge, one of the world’s deepest canyons, in the Himalaya of eastern Tibet, China.
    TS 2833.jpg
  • A view of Ullaanbaatar, Mongolia from the Zaisan Monument, which was built by the Soviets to commemorate people killed in World War II.
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  • A Memba matriarch plays with her grandson’s puppy at their farm in Bayi village in the Tsangpo River Gorge, one of the deepest canyons in the world, in the Himalaya of eastern Tibet, China.
    TS 3391.jpg
  • A Memba man sits outside his barn outside Bayi village, at the dowsnstream terminus of the Tsangpo River Gorge, one of the deepest canyons in the world, in the Himalaya of eastern Tibet, China.
    TS 3327.jpg
  • An elderly couple outside their house in the Tsangpo River Gorge, one of the world’s deepest canyons, in remote southeastern Tibet, China.
    TS 2836.jpg
  • A farmer and his mother tend cattle in Kyikar village at the upstream end of the Tsangpo River Gorge, one of the world’s deepest canyons, in the Himalaya of eastern Tibet, China.
    TS 2833.jpg
  • Soviet children breakfast in a communal dining hall in Pyramiden, one of the world's northernmost towns that is situated on Norway's Spitsbergen Island due to an unusual treaty.
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  • A shrine in Saint Nicholas cathedral honors fallen soldiers of World War II from Ischgl, Austria.
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  • Windblown rime and minus 40 degree temperatures envelop Russia's Golomianiyy Weather Station  on Severnaya Zemlya archipeligo, one of the northmost manned outposts in the world
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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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  • 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
  • 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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  • A Chachapoyan (pre-Incan) mummy at the cultural museum in Chachapoyas.
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  • A father carries young bareback riders on his motorcyle at the finish line of a 20km horse race at a naadam festival on a remote pass near Muren, Mongolia. These Russian and Chinese made machines are a sign of rapid modernization in Mongolia's ancient nomadic culture.
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  • PERU. Chachapoyan (pre-Incan) mummy at cultural museum in Chachapoyas, Peru.
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  • Entrance to huge Chachapoyan fort, predating Peru's Inca culture.
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  • TIBET, Sakya. Villagers winnow barley in ancient village that escaped cultural revolution in China.
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  • A youngster relaxes on his father's motorcycle after riding bareback in a 20km horse race at a naadam festival on a remote pass near Muren, Mongolia. These Russian and Chinese made machines are a sign of rapid modernization in Mongolia's ancient nomadic culture.
    MGe 060626-102.jpg
  • A Tibetan villager stands by his horse beside the Tsangpo River (Brahmaputra) in the Himalaya of remote southeastern Tibet, China.
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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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  • 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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  • 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
  • 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
  • After a cold, rainy night on the tundra north of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a group of nomadic Komi reindeer herders warm up and eat a quick breakfast of bread and grilled reindeer meat in a grass-cutter’s hut near Snopa village.  Left to right:  Arthum Khantazeski, Alexei Semyashkin, Vasily Chuprov, and Alexei Vauchesky.
    RUe 070423-022.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
  • 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).
    RUe 070415-019.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, nomadic Komi reindeer herders grill reindeer meat on a stick over coals of an outdoor campfire.
    RUe 070414-097.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.
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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.
    RUe 070413-129.jpg
  • Lhasa, Tibet, People's Republic of China. Tibetan Buddhist nuns chant and pray in a temple at their nunnery.
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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.
    RUe 070414-038.jpg
  • A family enjoys an evening campfire by Lake of The Woods, Ontario, Canada.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. Inuit hunter Jayko Apak (MR) aims at a seal on frozen Sam Ford Fjord, Baffin Bay.
    BI 2765.jpg
  • Homeless village women from Bangladesh, left widowed, destitute or raped after a cyclone and brutal war of independence in 1971,  find shelter at Mirpur Destitute Camp near Dhaka , 1977 Image.
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  • A woman shops in an outdoor market in the northern port city of Arkhangel'sk Russia
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  • Dream Machines, Half Moon Bay Airport, California.
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  • A horseman leads his mount through a rough section of northern Inca Trail, descending from "halca" grasslands of Peru's  Cordillera Cental into the vast Amazon cloud forest below.
    PE 4023.jpg
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  • 75-year old Gonchigsuren, a nomad,  relaxes with his cat in his ger (yurt), Darhad Valley, Mongolia.
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  • MONGOLIA, Nomadic woman stokes fire in the stove inside her family's ger (yurt), midway through their migration to Lake Hovsgol.
    MG 6701.jpg
  • MONGOLIA,A nomadic family crosses Utreg Pass in the northern Horidol Saridog Mtns enroute to winter pastures.
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  • MONGOLIA, Horidol Saridag Mts. 2 year old Enkhee rides across 8000 foot Utreg pass on the back of  unattended yak during migration to Lake Hovsgol.
    MG 5453.jpg
  • MONGOLIA, Darhad Valley. Nomadic family & their herds cross Horidal Pass en route to wintering grounds by Lake Hovsgol. (Horidal Saridag Mts.)
    MG 4167.jpg
  • MONGOLIA, A wrestler waits his turn at naadum festival in Rinchenlhumbe, Darhad Valley.
    MG 0902.jpg
  • Bedouin men wearing traditional keffiyeh scarves chat and share tea in a wool tent in Jordan's Wadi Rum, part of the Arabian Desert.
    JD 1752.jpg
  • A hiker reflects in a tarn below California's 14,505-foot Mount Whitney, highest peak in the the lower 49 states.
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  • A village elder rests beside the trail in the Kali Gandaki Valley, Nepal.
    AN 0510.jpg
  • A village musician with his homemade violin waits to entertain bus travelers in Nepal.
    AN 0102.jpg
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  • A youngster admires a frog he caught.
    LW 1150.jpg
  • A crowd of Hindus worshippers celebrate Krishna's Birthday at Durbar Square in Patan, a sister city to Kathmandu, Nepal.
    KM 3222.jpg
  • Village farmers who have trekked days from lowland Nepal relax  after carrying baskets of their wares to sell at  the Saturday bazar in mountainous Namche Bazaar, leading town of the Sherpa people.
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  • A Sherpa woman carries her grandson inPangboche Village in the Khumbu region of Nepal's Himalaya.
    K 1914.jpg
  • A sherpa practices a Tyrolean traverse at an early mountaineering school for sherpas in the Khumbu region of Nepal, 1980.
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  • A sailboat carries cargo up a river near Dhaka, Bangladesh.
    BD 0507.jpg
  • Homeless and malnourished village children from Bangladesh find a moment to smile at Mirpur Destitute Camp near Dhaka, Bangladesh. in 1977.  Their mother had been left widowed, violated and destitute after both a cyclone and subsequent war of indepence in 1971.
    BD 0209.jpg
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  • A porter hikes through rice paddies on the still-unfinished trail around Annapurna in Nepal.
    AN 3208.jpg
  • A villager cuts leaves and branches from a tree for firewood and fodder, a major source of Himalayan deforestation.
    AN 0101.jpg
  • 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).
    RUe 070419-098.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
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  • The USS Potamac, once President Franklin D. Roosevelt's "Floating White House," is now preserved  as a museum and offers tours of San Francisco Bay, California.
    CAe 190829-336.jpg
  • Stunt motorcyclists fly off a jump at Dream Machines, Half Moon Bay Airport, California.
    CAe 190428-1132.jpg
  • Stunt motorcyclists fly off a jump at Dream Machines, Half Moon Bay Airport, California.
    CAe 190428-1119.jpg
  • Dream Machines, Half Moon Bay Airport, California.
    CAe 190428-0173.jpg
  • Fourth of July Parade down Main Street in Half Moon Bay, California, 2018.
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  • PERU,  Maximilliano, a  homesteader from the cloud forests of the upper Amazon Basin.
    PE 3942.jpg
  • PERU. Dr. Peter Lerche (MR) examines Chachapoyan (pre-Incan) artifact at previously undiscovered site in Peruvian cloud forest above Rio Huabayacu.
    PE 3427.jpg
  • Homesteader from Amazon cloud forests enroute to market in Bolivar.
    PE 2119.jpg
  • MONGOLIA, Horidol Saridag Mts. Migrating family saws and  chops wood for evening fire after a long day crossing Utreg Pass.
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  • MONGOLIA, Horidol Saridag Mountains. Migrating family on high plateau near Utreg Pass en route from Darhad Valley to Lake Hovsgol.
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  • MONGOLIA. Nomadic herders cross 8,000 foot Utreg Pass in the Horidal Saridag Mountains during annual migration from Darhad Valley to Lake Hovsgol.
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  • MONGOLIA, Darhad Valley. Nomadic brother & sister (Enkhmaa & Enkhbold) en route over Horidol Saridag Mts. to Lake Hovsgol.
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  • MONGOLIA, Horidol Saridag Mountains.  Nomadic family's herds cros Horidol Pass en route to winture pastures by Lake Hovsgol.
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  • MONGOLIA, Darhad Valley.  A migrating family guides its sheep up a rugged trail below Horidol Pass in Horidol Saridag Mtns.
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  • NEPAL, Kathmandu, Hindu bathers & festival garlands at Pashupatinath Temple (Bagmati River).
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  • A village boy, probably of Memba descent, stands in his village the in Lunang Valley, of Tibet, China.
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  • Youngsters bury their patient dog in a sand dune in Eureka Valley, part of California's Death Valley National Park.
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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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  • Inuit hunter Jayko Apak waits for seals on ice floe, Baffin Island, Nunavut.
    BI 1807.jpg
  • Inuit hunter & kayak maker, Peter Paniloo wears traditional caribou parka, Pond Inlet, Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada.
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  • Trekkers stop at a teahouse in the Kali Gandaki Valley, Nepal
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  • Mahagunas Pass, Srinagar District, Jammu and Kashmir Province, India. A trail crowded with Hindu pilgrims en route to the Amarnath Cave.
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  • Machu Picchu, an Inca ruin below Mount Huayna Picchu.
    PE 6032.jpg
  • Terraces and ancient buildings at Machu Picchu.
    PE 6067.jpg
  • A horse pulls a cart through the Siq, a dramatic slot canyon leading to Petra, Jordon,
    JD 0218.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 070423-151.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.  Left to right: Vasily Terentév, Arthum Khantazeski, Vasily Chuprov, Alexei Semyashkin, and Alexei Vauchesky.
    RUe 070423-093.jpg
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