centuries ago revered the place with special devotion. here the hardy braves at 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. since i was a child i live by them 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's 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

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 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 eight hundred century the early rock climbers lived in communities they built log cabins in the 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. faster and 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 school 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 you can see a thing at night it's a good experience every single fan 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 chicken 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 word 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 time. what do you think about the entrance fee payment for

the entrance i don't know who's daring 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. of what looking at the of the respond for example is cold at the old man also you can see a man's profile with the news and i am to be here it that on the rocks to look like people but this is left to people's imagination. on this a little girl and some people like to see what they want to see it all you still dislike to say people need to. cultivate their imagination other than what. the store nature reserve is besides. 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. these are tracks of a male 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 the snow in the mountains is very deep now and sometimes avalanches occur it's hard for roe deer to keep steady up there so they come down to the river. gates guards 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 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 comes in 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 two patrols at a time wardens said again and maxine say they are lucky if nothing happens while they are on duty. you know 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 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. a. 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 contender everywhere possible short fall it's a female cop. she is a foster mother. her mother died during labor three. at the same time. we

hadn't seen the last. we only knew it was them that if we could touch it we didn't expect it to leave. but when we saw it we realized there was a knife. between although she was not breathing. she was placed in intensive care for five minutes and was saved in the end. 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 play the role of an adopted mother. cannot survive out in the cold in winter time. the name of it is one of. you know if you can stand to back legs resting his front legs on something and

looking very tall sometimes he attempts jumping. but when he's done running he likes to get an indiscriminate. deep in wall to leave and just. sometimes people even cannot find him. african to have adapted to their new home normally they feed on. the reserve keepers were hard pressed to find a local replacement. aspen leaves in crowds the winter lasts for six months and giraffes don't have access to fresh leaves during the short summer workers have to stock up on enough fodder the siberian tiger stocking more than enough to last. the entire winter.

industries are rapidly developing. its strength. which became. it can hit doctors' wives policeman swines ministers why sack i just prayed that if you didn't find me if i could slip 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 abuse at least four million

women are affected by abuse every year those are my only two options that i thought that mostly kill him only in jail or he's going to kill it. there are scores of caves around the stalled wing 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 sparely ologist 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 alongside a helmet and most importantly extra flashlights are needed to study the caves

littering the people going to. need to follow standard rules and safety regulations it's those 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 now they are the most experienced especially ologists they're the first to go down once they're 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 space just a jargon pose the main threat another is fear compounded by darkness. how deep we now. it seems like we've covered maybe fifty meters i don't know sixty meters if you measure 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 wall. at the same time a cave is completely vulnerable to human impact this balloon 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 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 up. there's a passage up there and chances are. interesting room. one hundred forty. the group 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.

of snow. ten cents a few years ago one of the recalled. fell through in this place once it was quite a job. 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 stunts. from foreign. competition. between. hundreds of extreme sports. snow and cold weather make even rock climbing more exciting the most experienced

it's 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 maximises the fingers grip on rock with the rock cracks filled with snow ice covered stone surfaces make climbing more difficult and as a result more interesting and exciting. i think man 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 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. strokes without safety equipment are very cautious people might even say they're between target that's why they're still alive it's very important for any climate to feel the borderline that should never be stepped up. 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. of the cliff for three hours and the support team . it's located on the border between

a. reserve city preparations start immediately are fixed and extended the gap. of the border 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 double show every single element of the jump. the cliff is ninety meters high. jumping requires precise calculation if the tension is one meter more. five meters longer. crashed. i think. everything's ready. for.

a snow storm it threatens jumping safety but the team decides to continue its preparations. working independently from each other 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 sharp rocks and stones. can do this many other people to try to free. this. is one of the most famous nature reserves in russia one of the smallest

it is famed not only for. similar. art 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 with. devotion for six generations of people who take an immense pride in calling themselves.

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