the ocean. here the hardy braves very low temperatures to try to climb cliffs without safety equipment. alexander is a master photographer with thirty years of experience a brief workout and a glass of hot tea help him 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 just. since i was a child i live by them you say i love them so much i see nothing extreme about being here i don't feel the rigors of fly from this place 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 a debt of gratitude to the reserve but. 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 or known as still best 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 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 eight hundred century the early rock climbers lived in communities they built log cabins in a time ago where they spent several months on these pictures give us an idea of what the early crash climbers looked like they climbed to the top of rocks with 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 and told us to competitions. faster and faster we need to see who wins 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 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 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. 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 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 like that of the streets. however but that is packed with tourists even in winter time the nature reserve is the famous place for rest and recreation for thousands of 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 the entrance fee 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 looks to me at the of the response for example is called the old man you can see a man's profile with the news and i am to be here but other acts to look like people but this is left to people's imagination. obviously some people like to see what they want to see still be slanted to say people need to. cultivate their imagination other than what. the store 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. go through 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. gates one of the old guards of the reserves 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. 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 out of time wardens said again maxine say they are lucky if nothing happens while they are on duty. so what you 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. humans. 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. exotic animals from africa. such as. have a marvelous lead to the rigors of the month. 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 every way possible short father to female cop. she is a foster mother. her mother died during labor three. at the same time.

hadn't seen the last. we only knew it was them because we could touch it we didn't expect it to leave. but when we saw it we realised it was a knife. although she was not breathing. she was placed in intensive care for five minutes and was saved. but the life of the female became jeopardized again she was in desperate need of breastfeeding it was suggested. that had just given birth to a pup play the role of an adopted mother. cannot survive out in the cold in winter time. as. by the name of it is one of them. moving again as a member. of ballerina you know if you can stand up on these two back legs would you brisson his front legs on something and looking very tall sometimes he attempts

jumping over low fences but when he's done running and she likes to get him in the swimming. he sinks deep in water leaving just a strong cult site but sometimes people even cannot find him. african giraffes to have adapted to their new home normally they feed on a caution leaves the reserve keepers were hard pressed to find a local replacement out of all the local plants giraffes prefer maple and aspen leaves increase their risk in the winter lasts for six months and giraffes don't have access to fresh leaves during the short summer the zoo workers have to stock up on enough fodder the endless siberian tiger enables stocking more than enough tree leaves to last the zoo inadvertence the entire winter. it can hit dr swan's policeman swans ministers why i just pray.

if you didn't find me if i could just live through the night that i would get my kids out of here because i knew that what was going to happen was that he was going to kill me many victims don't understand that domestic violence includes verbal abuse psychological abuse physical abuse and sexual acts at least four million women are affected by abuse every year those are my only two options that i thought that. kill him in jail or he's going it it killed .

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 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 finalising 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 meter or a meter 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 sense with equipment and food. 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 its tunnels have not been explored but it's not so easy to reach them deep vertical clefts called chimneys. just a 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 the clubs are so deep a torchlight cannot eliminate the office of wall. at the same time a cave is completely vulnerable to human impact this balloon wave which nothing 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.

to examine every. we're going to go along the. passage up there and chances are we'll stumble into some interesting room. one hundred forty. the group to take pictures. and have a rest before the. having a hearty meal 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. it's more. than ten cents

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 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. sports. competition. difficult.

foreign. competition. between. hundreds of. snow and cold weather make even rock climbing more exciting the most experienced and still 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 warm and frost 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 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 these rocks . a leg. professional mountain climber he climbed the highest mountains in the world his first climbing skills he acquired here on these 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 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. 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 all. however right now he moves as slowly as possible so that his friend alexander can take a few good shots. very carefully. not to risk.

the best. safety equipment. it's very important. on the edge not only for. jumpers as well. 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. preparations start immediately ropes are fixed and extended gap.

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. every single element of the jump. jumping requires precise calculation. whether everything is ready. constantly changing suddenly there are strong winds that can turn into a snow storm it threatens safety but the team decides 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 finishes the preparation for jumping. ropes checked properly seventy five meters and. do this like many other people to try it. is one of the most famous nature reserves and. it is famous not only because of.

the nature reserve it is a. city has resulted in a place. for. people who take pride in calling themselves. it's the secret incursion into the country. it's the invasion. of. the us to compete. are still. going on in the.

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brother who's the former prime minister of the country claims the wrong body was very moscow baffled by the claim. ten pm in moscow i match reza good to be with you here on r t our top story billion dollar deals military agreements and high tech a link ups just the results of president medvedev high profile visit to india russian president also sealed a number of agreements on nuclear power aiming to satisfy the growing energy needs of the world's second most populous country artie's charan singh has been following the meetings between the two countries leaders. they have been strategic partners for over a decade and have had very warm really relations for several decades from the soviet times on works and what's why.