Three chums at an encampment of nomadic Nenets reindeer herders on the Yamal Peninsula, Arctic Siberia

"Yamal" means "the edge of the world" in the Nenets language

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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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