a unique nature reserve called the closing of. 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 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. and yes just.

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 rig is a fly from 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 he is still a 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 the public movement enthusiasms share a certain set of rules and traditions and a passion for rock climbing and socializing admits such all inspiring landscapes. of the soul best's. 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 the time they go where they spend several

months and these pictures give us an idea of what the early crabs the climbers looked like they climbed to the top of rocks with safety equipment each generation improved climbing techniques and skills in accordance with. 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 competition. 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 sport are also held at night. it's no fun climbing rocks in the daytime in fact it would be quite boring were it not so scary as you look down there you can see a thing at night it's

a good experience every single founder of the. i've been around since i came here from the urals. is a great place there's 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 reserve 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 put is a member of the reserves staff she used to be a skilled rock climber but now visits the pillars only once in a while almost all her work time is dedicated to infrastructure development of the nature reserve is that 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 the administration 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. a remark from time to time a tourist from time to time. what do you think about the entrance fee payment for the entrance i don't know because during the. 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. well what let me have the of the respond for example is called the old man also you can see a man's profile with a nose and eye and to be here it has a bond with other acts to look like people but this is left to people's imagination . obviously a girl some people like to see what they want to see still be slight to say people

need to cultivate their imagination other words. the story major reserve is beside. 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. they go through these are tracks of a male. 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. or didn't see it again and gone to 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 roll and other deer to look for food there. 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 sanction 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 i just see. nothing special there were a couple of siberian grazing on the right bank didn't want to disturb them there

were no christo trikes but what did you see me snowmobiles. quite often patrol wardens come across injured beasts birds or parent 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. traditional inhabitants of siberian forests such as. 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 we walked around the pole contended in every way possible short father to female cop. tatiana thirteen.

she is a foster mother for many of the charges now she is nursing the little daughter her mother died during labor three other jobs died at the same time. then. we didn't expect it. but when we saw. we realized. she was not breathing. she was placed in intensive care for five minutes.

you know if you can stand two back legs. something and look in very. sometimes. people don't run in like. deep in water. sometimes people even cannot find. african. reserve. asked.

for the. face when the news makers on r.t. . me. it's the secret incursion into the country. it's the invasion by means of. tradition the language. so that the best compete could be.

are still unaware of what's going on in the land. asking why do you. think i don't know any but. the great. bringing you the latest in science and technology from. the future covered. there are scores of caves around the nature reserve they present challenges of different complexities to those who ventured 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 space 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. 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. people going to. need to follow standard rules and safety regulations. if you fall from a height of only one metre 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 most experienced especially ologists they're the first to go down once there they take care of science with equipment and food. it's like that you've been given your places where nobody has ever set foot when you go there you realize that you're the first to reach some particular gallery or grotto in that case curiosity ousts fear and you get real

thrills. the cames layout is very involved many of the tunnels have not been explored but it's not so easy to reach them deep vertical clefts cold 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 further in. 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 of the clubs are so deep a torchlight cannot a movement at the office of wall. at the same time a cave is completely vulnerable to human impact this balloon way with me 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 life span. 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. to examine every. we're going to go along the rocks there's a passage up there and chances are we'll stumble into some interesting room. one hundred forty. the group home to take pictures. and have a rest 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 water. there is. no ground. it's more than a metre deep it was one metre in ten centimeters a few years ago one of the record levels through in this place. 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 strong wind that's why deep snow would stay in the reserve till late spring.

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hundreds of. snow and cold weather make even rock climbing more exciting the most experienced is still best preferred 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 wool and mittens this is the climbers know how. each one's hands warm in frost and maximizes 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 skin 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 of the. a

leg. a professional mountain climber he climbed the highest mountains in the world his first climbing skills he acquired here on these rocks today help his friend photographer alexander couped off take a few photos for a future book. first climbed a mountain thirty five years ago the parity of rock 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 are like. 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. climbing the almost sheer cliff. usually takes only ten seconds however right now he moves as slowly as possible so that his friend alexander coupes off can take a few good shots. makes each move very carefully one of the climbers rules is not to risk in vain. i know that the best climb the strokes without safety equipment are very cautious people might even say they're between that that's why they're still alive it's very important for any climate to feel the borderline that should never be over stepped. on the edge is the motto not only for rock climbers but. jumpers as well the young mountaineers think that climbing rock faces is not enough rope jumpers attach themselves with a system of ropes and jump into a gap for the sake of

a. a few seconds of free falling. for three hours and. it's located on the border between. reserve. preparations start immediately fixed and extended the gap. the border lies in your head you concentrate on the technical aspects of your. take care of the safety aspect you don't need any trouble any incidents make sure double show every single element of the jump. jumping requires precise calculation if the tension is one meter more the. five meters longer. asking whether everything's ready.

to continue its preparations. working independently from. if one of them snaps the other. which is exactly what it's supposed to. mean while alexander the preparation for jumping on ropes checked properly seventy five meters and. many other people to try it. were.

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