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  • 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.
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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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  • Despite winter cold, a Russian airport worker tends a plane on Severnaya Zemlya, an archipeligo far north of Siberia.
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  • Despite winter cold, a Russian airport worker tends a plane on Severnaya Zemlya, an archipeligo far north of Siberia.
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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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  • Mountaineer Rick Ridgeway huddles against the cold during a forced bivouac in Queen Maud Land, Antarctica.
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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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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. Expedition snowmobiles into Stewart Valley, a setting of huge polar cliffs.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, NUNAVUT, CANADA. Inuit guides, snowmobiles & Great Sail Peak expedition members beside icebergs on frozen Baffin Bay.
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  • Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada. Inuit hunter, Jayko Apak (MR) waits for seals on ice floe near Clyde River.
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  • Trekkers visit the Annapurna Sanctuary in the Nepal Himalaya.
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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.
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  • A reindeer caravan herded by the last nomadic Komi clan crosses the tundra near Nizhnyaya  Pesha, in the Russian Arctic.
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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, nomadic Komi reindeer herders grill reindeer meat on a stick over coals of an outdoor campfire.
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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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  • 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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  • Allan Pietrasanta sits by a wood stove in a cabin on Lake of the Woods, Ontario, Canada.
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  • Allan Pietrasanta sits by a wood stove in a cabin on Lake of the Woods, Ontario, Canada.
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  • Clouds from a clearing winter storm swirl over the Mono Craters, a group of relatively young volcanoes east of the Sierra Nevada crest in California.
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  • Clouds from a clearing winter storm swirl over the Mono Craters, a group of relatively young volcanoes east of the Sierra Nevada crest in California.
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  • Clouds from a clearing winter storm swirl over the Mono Craters, a group of relatively young volcanoes east of the Sierra Nevada crest in California.
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  • Clouds from a clearing winter storm swirl over Mono Lake, a saline inland sea east of the Sierra Nevada crest in California. For the last several decades Mono Lake was severely threatened by Los Angeles Department of Water and Power diversions of inflowing streams into an aqueduct.  Now, due to a court order that limits water diversion, the lake has slowly begun refilling.
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  • INTERNATIONAL ARCTIC PROJECT. Will Steger's sled dogs run through new snow near North Pole on Arctic Ocean, during 1995 expedition from Russia to Canada.
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  • Allan Pietrasanta, Gordon Wiltsie & Jay Jensen camp near the summit of Gulol Pass in Kashmir, just before getting avalanched in their ski mountaineering traverse of India's Great Himalaya Range.
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  • Camped atop a 16,000+ foot pass, ski mountaineer Allan Pietrasanta looks back at some of the gorges his team followed during an expedition across India's Great Himalaya Range from Ladakh to Kashmir.  Just hours later, on the other side of the pass, the team was caught in an avalanche and the photographer crushed two vertebrae, but the group finished their journey under their own power.
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  • A mountaineer camps atop a 16,000+ foot pass near the end of an expedition to ski from Ladakh to Kashmir across India's Great Himalaya Range.  Later that day the team was avalanched over a cliff on the other side of the pass and the photographer crushed two vertebrae, but the team managed to finish the expedition successfully under their own power.
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  • A mountaineer cooks in a remote Patagonian snow cave.
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  • CORDILLERA SARMIENTO EXPED., Tyler Van Arsdell digs out storm-choked snow cave (Patagonia,Chile). Peter Garber bkg.(MR)
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. Inuit snowmobiles pull mountaineering expedition members across frozen lake in remote Stewart Valley, north of Clyde River.  The temperature is below zero, F, and Sail Peaks are in background.
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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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  • Young Inuit hunter Ben Illuaq aims his shotgun at a snowshoe on the tundra of Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada.
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  • Inuit hunters Joannasie Apak and Apitak Iqaqrialu from Clyde River hamlet on Baffin Island, melt snow for tea on their Coleman Stove as they take a break cross the frozen sea ice of Baffin Bay.  Behind them is an iceberg trapped by the winter freeze.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. Inuit guides fix snowmobile in the field with simple tools & bare hands, despite subzero tempertures.
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  • An Inuit hunter waits by a seal breathing hole north of Baffin Island.
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  • ANTARCTICA. Alex Lowe (MR) climbs Mount Bearskin (2850m) in the Ellsworth Mountains.  Mount Tyree (4852m), the continent's 2nd highest mountain is in background on right and Mount Vinson (4897m), the highest massif, is in left background.
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  • ANTARCTICA. Alex Lowe (MR) climbs Mount Bearskin (2850m) in the Ellsworth Mountains.  Mount Tyree (4852m), the continent's 2nd highest mountain is in background on right and Mount Vinson (4897m), the highest massif, is in left background.
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  • The Argentine supply ship Bahia Paraiso (which sank in 1987) rests at anchor near Esperanza Base at Hope Bay on the Antarctic Peninsula.
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  • Brabant Island rises behind the Gerlache Strait and Calley Glacier on the Antarctic Peninsula.  Image taken from summit of Mount Berry.
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  • A ski mountaineer takes pictures from the Calley Glacier on the Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica.  Behind is a summit sometimes called "Wiltsie's Peak."
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  • Icebergs float near the Loubet Coast on the Antarctic Peninsula.
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  • An iceberg floats below a glacier on the Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica.
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  • An iceberg floats in the Peltier Channel below the Fief Range on Wiencke Island, Antarctica.
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  • Viewed from Annapurna Sanctuary, the sun sets on 22,943-foot Machhapuchhare Peak in the Annapurna Massif in Nepal's Himalaya Mountains.
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  • Macchapucchare Peak glows in a sunset over the Himalaya in Nepal.
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  • NEPAL, HIMALAYA. Sunset on 6997-meter Machhapuchhare Peak ("The Fish Tail") in Annapurna massif above Pokhara.
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  • NEPAL, HIMALAYA. 6997-meter Machhapuchhare Peak above rice paddies in Pokhara Valley.
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  • Trekkers stop at a teahouse in the Kali Gandaki Valley, Nepal
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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 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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  • Midnight sun creeps across a mountain range on Norway's Spitsbergen Island, only 600 miles from the North Pole.
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  • Apitak Iqaqrialu, an Inuit elder, sits on frozen tundra north of the Arctic Circle on Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada.
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  • ANTARCTICA, Mike Farny (MR), taking a snow bath, Calley Glacier, Antarctic Peninsula
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  • An iceberg floats near the Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica.
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  • A local Hindu mystic and Aruvedic doctors poses in his hut in the Marsyandi River Valley, Nepal
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  • Mountaineer Mark Synnott ferries loads to the base of Great Sail Peak, above fog in Stewart Valley on Canada's Baffin Island.
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  • Kayaker Peter Thompson carries his boat by the Kananaskis River near Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
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  • Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada. Inuit hunter, Jayko Apak (MR) waits for seals on ice floe near Clyde River.
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  • Annapurna South rises above Annapurna Sanctuary in the Nepal Himalaya.
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  • HIMALAYA, NEPAL. Gabelhorn Peak, Annapurna Massif (from Annapurna Sanctuary).
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  • HIMALAYA, NEPAL. Gabelhorn Peak, Annapurna Massif (from Annapurna Sanctuary).
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  • A mountain rises above the Annapurna Sanctuary, Nepal.
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  • Annapurna III & Gabelhorn peak rise behind the Annapurna Glacier in Annapurna Sanctuary Nepal
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  • Marsyandi Valley, Nepal
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  • Marsyandi Valley, Nepal
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  • Manang Valley, north of Annapurna in Nepal.
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  • Manang Valley, north of Annapurna in Nepal.
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  • Manang Valley, north of Annapurna in Nepal.
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  • Manang Valley, north of Annapurna in Nepal.
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  • Manang Valley, north of Annapurna in Nepal.
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  • Manang Valley, north of Annapurna in Nepal.
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  • Manang Valley, north of Annapurna in Nepal.
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  • Manang Valley, north of Annapurna in Nepal.
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  • Trekkers cross Thorang La Pass, north of Annapurna in Nepal.
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  • Trekkers cross Thorang La Pass, north of Annapurna in Nepal.
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  • Trekkers cross Thorang La Pass, north of Annapurna in Nepal.
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  • Muktinath Valley, Nepal.
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  • Muktinath Valley, Nepal.
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  • Muktinath Valley, Nepal.
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  • Muktinath Valley, Nepal.
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  • Muktinath Valley, Nepal.
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  • Arid, rain-shadowed hiss stretch north of the Annapurna Massif in Nepal.
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  • Thakali women was clothe in a ditch in the Kali Gandaki Valley, Nepal
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  • A trading caravan crosses the Thak Kola (Kali Gandaki) river north of Jomsom, long a trading route with Tibet.
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  • Heavily eroded, arid hillside on the rainshadowed north side of the Himalaya, near Annapurna.
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  • A village in the Kali Gandaki Valley in Nepal
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  • A thakali woman on the trail in the Kali Gandaki Valley, Nepal
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  • A thakali woman on the trail in the Kali Gandaki Valley, Nepal
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  • A village in the Kali Gandaki Valley, Nepal
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  • A trading caravan crosses a long suspension bridge in the Kali Gandaki Valley, Nepal
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  • Trekkers view Annapurna South from Poon Hill, Nepal.
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  • Trekkers visit the Annapurna Sanctuary in the Nepal Himalaya.
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  • Sherpa Pasang Kami poses in front of the Annupurna South Face, a climb for which he was the climbing sirdar.
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  • Sherpa Pasang Kami poses in front of the Annupurna South Face, a climb for which he was the climbing sirdar.
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  • A mountain rises above the Annapurna Sanctuary, Nepal.
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  • Annapurna III & Gabelhorn peak rise behind the Annapurna Glacier in Annapurna Sanctuary Nepal
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  • A sunset in the Annapurna Sanctuary, Nepal.
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