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Nenets children climbing onto a reindeer sledge, Yamal Peninsula  
   

Nenets children climbing onto a reindeer sledge, Yamal Peninsula

Those that roam the Arctic wastes

January 10th 2011
Drinking blood in a darkened teepee with nomadic reindeer herders; sitting on the snow chewing frozen fish in -40 C and howling winds; seeing a white landscape turned brown by 10,000 reindeer and countless sledges crawling slowly over it; the kindness of people who live a life so harsh I could never cope with it. These are among my memories that, so extreme in their surreality, have become dream-l ... read more
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18th January 2011

so adorable
this is unbelievably cute
24th January 2011

Amazing
Great photos - well done on the trip. Hope to make it there myself someday.

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