the pillars can be found only four kilometers away from the city here thousands of rocky cliffs lie scattered in the siberian tiger people in central siberia centuries ago revered the place with special devotion. here the hardy braves with very low temperatures to try to climb cliffs without safety equipment. alexander cooper is a master photographer with thirty years of experience a brief workout and a glass of hot tea helping keep warm in the wind the temperature here is twenty degrees celsius below zero or minus four degrees fahrenheit alexander has everything he needs in his tent a bottle of water a gas burner and a kettle he also has access to the internet and even a solar battery he needs them for his work. yes. it's this

because since i was a child i live by them you say though i love them so much i see nothing extreme about being here i don't feel the riggers if life in this place here i've got electricity a notebook and everything i need it's like an important. this is the right place for alexander's tent this vantage point opens up a breathtaking view of the surrounding rocks alexander takes pictures of sunrises and sunsets he's about to start a new book about the question i ask is still buoy nature reserve to be illustrated with amazing pictures taken from the mountaintop. contains some thirty thousand pictures of this nature reserve because i want to share them with people who can't climb rocks they can see the beauty of this place so i want my book to show it to them and tell them about its history i think i owe a debt of gratitude to the reserve. alexander is fifty three years old

he went on his first rock climbing expedition when he had just turned fifteen people intent on solo climbing without gear and safety equipment are known as still bests in cries mask the word describes a subculture and a public movement enthusiasms share a certain set of rules and traditions and a passion for rock climbing and socializing admits such on squiring landscapes. of the soul bests. used to get their kicks from watching sunrise from iraq top. imagine the guys standing here with a girl looking at the sunrise and then going down to the campsite. movement goes back to the mid eighteenth century the early rock climbers lived in communities they built log cabins in a time where they spent several months on them and these pictures give us an idea

of what the early crash climbers looked like they climbed to the top of rocks without safety equipment each generation improved climbing techniques and skills in accordance with the rules no matter how hard it was to climb a rock it was pronounced conquered if the climber got to the end of the path without resorting to any gear however in this day and age safety equipment is a must in almost oldest competitions. with faster faster we need to see when. anyone between the ages of sixteen and sixty is allowed to take part in rock climbing contests in this extreme sports are also held at night. it's no fun climbing rocks in the day time in fact it would be quite boring were it not so scary as you look down there but you can't see a thing at night it's a good experience every single founder of the pill is here. i've been around since

i came here from the urals. is a great place this real freedom. geologically speaking the pillars are made of magma that cooled millions of years ago without making it to the surface several hundred rocks polished by wind and rain are concentrated in a fairly small area none of them is more than one hundred meters tall. some two hundred thousand tourists visiting the reserve each year leave tons of garbage behind several times a year schoolchildren garbage collecting competitions in the nature reserve each team is assigned a certain area the one that collects the most garbage in the least time is the winner. hey this is my garbage not yours we're a garbage patrol. anyone wishing to get to the preserve needs to be in good

physical shape it's a seven kilometer walk uphill from the highway to the nearest rock it's too much of a strain for some people feeling a particular is a member of the reserves staff she used to be a skilled rock climber but visits the pillars only once in a while almost all her work time is dedicated to infrastructure development of the nature reserve we need to know public opinion is that we polled the public on such issues as construction in the reserve the general public has the right to ban or allow something out of the streets. however the bath is packed with tourists even in winter time the nature reserve is the famous place for rest and recreation for thousands of present as residents ministration goes ahead with development projects in the reserve only after enlisting public support surveys are

carried out to find out opinions. call from do visits rubicund a remark from time to time a tourist from time to. what do you think about all the entrance fee to payment for the entrance i don't know whose daring to get to. yes. the reserves divided into several zones tourists have free access to only four percent of the total area but even the smallest zone contains more than one hundred rocks nearly all of them have names. but what let me out of the of the respond for example is called the old man most you can see a man's profile with a no use and i am to be here it on the rocks to look like people but this is left to people's imagination but some seem obvious and girl some people like to see what they want to see still be slanted to say people need to. cultivate their

imagination other than their words when you're. the stall bully nature reserve is beside krasny arsk it's surrounded by housing on all sides its staff have not managed to isolate the world of nature from the world of people people enter the reserves protected area whereas beasts often approach people's homes in search of food for. thought these are tracks of a mail road deer. he wondered somewhere in the morning must have been a bit frozen after the night's cold judging by his tracks he was looking for food at all with the snow in the mountains is very deep now and sometimes avalanches occur it's hard for a road here to keep steady up there so they come down to the river. board in the city gates guards the reserve against poachers he takes care of a forty kilometer border section while on duty he scrutinizes the snow to find out what animals may have appeared near the river deep snow in the forest compels row

and other deer to look for food there sergey tries to make no noise he doesn't want to disturb the animals. we protect the wild animals from dogs that's where i go and come sing quite handy. if a dog sneaks into the reserve it has to be shot we also catch people riding snowmobiles on the icebound river and we trail snowmobiles to. this border section requires special attention because it is very close to the city and this is where the wardens detain most of the intruders their job requires to patrols at a time wardens said again and maxine say they are lucky if nothing happens while they are on duty. so just see. nothing special there were a couple of siberian grazing on the right bank didn't want to disturb them there were no trikes but what did you see any snowmobiles. quite

often patrol wardens come across injured beasts birds or parrot was cubs humans bear the blame for that injured animals are sent to a nearby. there are more than five hundred species in it nearly half of them are recorded in the international air space. traditional inhabitants of siberian forests such as polar foxes and roe deer live side by side with exotic animals from africa animals from hot climates such as by the name of they have adapted marvelously to the rigors of the siberian climate given again rachel is the pride of all park when she was brought here two thousand and two was only three months old for some eighteen months who walked around the pole contended in every way possible short father to female cop. tatiana thirteen.

just she is a foster mother for many of the charges now she is nursing the lion's little daughter her mother died during labor three other jobs died at the same time. we only knew it was them. we didn't expect it. but when we saw it we realized it was a knife. though she was not breathing. she was placed in intensive care for five minutes and was saved. the life of the female. she was. given.

you know if you can stand to back legs. on something and looking very tall sometimes he attempts jumping fences but when he's done running he likes to get him in the swimming. pool he sinks deep in water leaving just. what sometimes people even cannot find him. african. reserve keepers were hard pressed to. ask in crowds.

the songs on those cars filled with me i think of it every day. from the memory. of so much so a long time this year trying to tell. i was. i was ashamed that i didn't. i was ashamed that i had been a hero while i got my legs. in the mine. when i went to vietnam pow wows of the.

what i was going on once or i think. that i was a good soldier. but now most older on the other side and i think i'm just in a good. is.

there are scores of caves around the still nature reserve they present challenges of different complexities to those who venture to explore them this is a favorite venue for people who like the silent beauty of inanimate nature rather than the cries of birds and animals local spam the ologists scientists who specialize in the study of caves plan to go down to the bottom of the watershed one of the reserves most beautiful and least explored natural caverns the team are finalizing their route and checking their equipment a strong pair of overalls climbing the equipment. a helmet and most importantly extra flashlights are needed to study the caves and it isn't going to. need to follow standard rules and safety regulation which. if you fall from a height of only one meter or a metre and

a half you could get seriously hurt but you need to keep that in mind and keep training to avoid such situations. tanya and not the out of the most experienced especially ologists they're the first to go down once there they take care of science with equipment and food. it's just like that you've been given your places where nobody has ever set foot when you go there you realise that you're the first to reach some particular gallery or grotto in that case curiosity ousts fear and you get real thrills. the caves layout is very involved in many of its tunnels have not been explored but it's not so easy to reach them deep vertical clefts called chimneys and jargon pose the main threat another is fear compounded by darkness. now. it seems like we've covered maybe fifty meters i don't know sixty meters if you measure it directly

i don't know what's there. it takes nearly eight hours to cover one hundred meters a cave changes people's sense of time and space any careless step or jump might be the last one the cliffs are so deep a torchlight cannot eliminate the office of the wall. at the same time a cave is completely vulnerable to human impact this balloon way which no one you can see a beautiful formation it's not something you see in every cave. these take a very long time to form much longer than a single human lifespan. when people touch these or even make them a little bit dirty that's what poses the greatest threat to them the expedition has achieved. with ramifications which have not yet been explored.

examined. we're going to go. there's a passage up there and chances are. interesting room. one hundred forty. to take pictures. before the. having a heart is an absolute must when. you really just need it after all the exertion. this expedition has not been crowned with complete. passages have turned out to be. a lot of unexplored out of the. spring. there. it's more. than ten centimeters

a few years ago one of the record levels fell through in this place once it was quite a job deep snow makes it difficult for the director of the meteorological station. to reach a faulty sensor and to adjust it the station is working automatically all materials are registered by a computer there was practically no thawing in the winter just a strong wind that's why deep snow would stay in the reserve till late spring. deep snow. snow board fans sports enthusiasts from all over. to participate in the freestyle competition. difficult stunts.

but those who've come from far and wide with thirty three thousand dollars up for grabs in the competition prize fund. competitions are held in the park for. between. the mountainside. just what it should be. hundreds of extreme sports. snow and cold weather make even rock climbing more exciting the most experienced prefer to practice their sport in winter time a warm fleece hat and special iron studded boots instead of summer footwear complete the climbers wear one also needs. this is the climbers know how. each

one's hands. and maximises the fingers grip on rock with a rock filled with snow ice covered stone surfaces make climbing more difficult and as a result more interesting and exciting. i think men will always stand to test themselves you can only test yourself if you're ready to take risks risks are part of the test that's how it's always been and will always be people will always climb. a leg. professional mountain climber he climbed the highest mountains in the world his first climbing skills he acquired here on vee's rocks today helps his friend photographer alexander coots off take a few photos for a future book. first climbed a mountain thirty five years ago the pair is among his favorites every outcrop of

the rock is well known to him climbing this rock is not for novices but it's quite easy for. climbing on the cross. in winter and in summer. we do it without safety equipment basically there's nothing difficult about it it's a purely psychological exercise but it takes years to achieve the result of. climbing the almost sheer cliff. usually takes all. however right now he moves as slowly as possible so that his friend alexander can take a few good shots. makes each move very carefully one of the climbers rules is not a risk.

without safety equipment. that. it's very important. on the edge not only for. jumpers as well. think that climbing is not enough. attach themselves with a system of ropes and jump into a gap for the sake of a few seconds of free falling. for three hours and the support. between. reserve. preparations start immediately ropes are fixed and extended gap.

lies in your head you concentrate on the technical aspect to. take care of the safety aspect you don't need any trouble any incidents make sure doubles every single element of. the. jumping requires precise calculation. the. five metres longer. whether everything's ready. the weather on the constantly changing sudden way there are strong winds that can turn into a snow storm it threatens jumping safety but the team decides to continue its preparations. working independently from.

one of them snaps the other. which is exactly what it's supposed to. mean while alexander finishes the preparation for jumping. ropes checked all fixed properly seventy five metres of emptiness sharp rocks and stones below. do this like many other people to try it for the. world. is one of the most famous nature reserves in russia one of the smallest. there are similar rocks and. it is famous not only because of.

the nature reserve it is a. city that has resulted in a place. for six generations of people who take pride in calling themselves.

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