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Nomadic Nenets reindeer herder carving wood, Yamal Peninsula, Arctic Siberia



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Blog: Secrets from The Edge of the World
Date: April 14th 2012

The nine families, nine chums and 10,000 reindeer of the second Yar Sale brigade were on their way north, their annual 1200km migration begun after a six-week winter break in the forest tundra of Nadym Region. To a casual observer who somehow stumbled on the nine conical tents amid the flat, treeless, white expanse of the Yamal Peninsula tundra, it would not be immediately obvious that these Nenet ... read more


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