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 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.

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 rigors of fly from this place i've got electricity a notebook and everything i need it's like. 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 is about to start a new book about the. 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 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 where they spent several months and

these pictures give us an idea of what the early crabs the climbers looked like they climbed to the top of ranks 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 all 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 extreme sports 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 pill is here. i've been around since

i came here from the urals. it's 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 particular 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 like that 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 time. what do you think about the entrance fee payment for the entrance i don't know which direction to go 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. well what let me have the of the respond for example is called the old man you can see a man's profile with the nose and i am to be near it with other rocks 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 that are you still the slight to say people need to cultivate their imagination others who are. the story

nature 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 beasts often approach people's homes in search of food. go through these are tracks of a mail road. 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 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 rove

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 come seen 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 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 foxes and deer live side by side with exotic animals from africa animals from hot climates such as by the name of their have adapted marvelously to the rigors of the siberian climate given the camera she 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. we hadn't seen the last. we only knew it was them touch it we didn't expect it. but when we saw it we realized. she was not breathing. she was placed in intensive care for five minutes and was saved. the life of the female. she was. feeding.

time. you know if you can stand to back legs and his front legs on something and looking very tall sometimes jumping over fences but when he's done running and he likes to get an indiscriminate. he sings deep in water. what sometimes people even cannot find him. african. the reserve keepers were hard pressed to find placement. aspen leaves in crowds. and don't have access to. the.

cosco. i think of it every day. trying to memorise a. long time. ago. i was ashamed that i didn't. i was ashamed that i hadn't been a hero why. do

i think. that i was a good soul. but most older on the other side and i think i'm just a. wealthy british. market. what's really happening to the global economy. the global financial headlines kaiser reports. there are scores of came around. challenges of different complexities to those who venture to explore this is

a favorite venue for people who like the silent beauty of nature rather than the cries of birds and animals. scientists who specialize in the study of caves plan to go down to the bottom of the water show. one of the reserves most beautiful and least explored natural counter and 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 in addition to people going to. need to follow standard rules and safety regulation which. 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 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 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 cames layout is very involved and many of its tunnels have not been explored but it's not so easy to reach them deep vertical cleft called chimneys and spill yellow just a jargon pose the main threat another is fear compounded by darkness. how deep. 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 to collapse are so deep a torchlight cannot a movement at 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 its objective. 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 meters below the group home to take pictures. and have

a rest before the law. 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. still a lot of unexplored out of the passage of. time is running out 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 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. sports. competition. difficult. with thirty three thousand dollars up for grabs in the competition prize fund.

competitions are held in the park for. between. hundreds of extreme. snow and cold weather make even rock climbing more exciting the most experienced 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 wool and mittens this is the climbers know how. each one's hands warm in 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 of these rocks. a leg. a 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. 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.

practice rock 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. strokes without safety equipment are very cautious people even say there. that's why they're still. it's very important for any climate to feel the borderline that should never be stepped. on the edge is the motto not only for rock climbers

but. jumpers as well the young mountaineers think that climbing rock face is not enough rope jumpers attach themselves with a system of ropes and jump into a gap for the sake of a. a free falling. for three hours and. it's located on the border between. reserve. preparations start immediately fixed and extended the gap. lies in your head you concentrate on the technical aspect of your jumps you also take care of the safety aspect you don't need any trouble any incidents make sure doubles every single element of the jump.

jumping requires precise calculation. five metres longer. a crash. whether everything's ready. safety. to continue its preparations. working independently from. snaps the other. which is exactly what it's supposed to. mean while alexander the preparation for jumping on ropes checked properly.

can do this many other people to try it. were. there. is one of the most famous nature reserves in russia one of the smallest. not only for. national park it is famous not only because of its. interesting sights inside. the fact that the nature reserve is a. city that has resulted in a place where. for six generations of people who take an immense pride in calling

themselves.

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says. u.s. senators have voted to end the debate. finally moving on to the big day a vote which is expected on wednesday for more details joining me. in just a few moments. two of the so-called bric nations cement trade ties russia and india secure multibillion dollar deals on a trip by president medvedev. told to reject moscow's report into the april plane crash that killed the polish president and ninety five other aviation experts say the russian probe was opened.

what i am in moscow i match reza good to be with you here on r t our top story the fate of a landmark nuclear control pact between russia and the u.s. is closer to being finalized the u.s. senate has just agreed to end months of debate on the strategic arms reduction treaty also known as the start treaty the next step is a vote that will ratify the deal which senate leaders say will be positive for more on this we go live to washington d.c. where he's going h.q. and is standing by in a does it look like the senate will leave a ratified start treaty under the white house christmas tree. well matt it looks like it senators have voted to end the debate earlier today and we're finally moving on to. which is expected to early in the early afternoon on wednesday and democrats are pretty sure that they do have the sixty seven.