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here the reindeer is interesting for the herders. and when it suffers. people do their best to help. but the distances are. on the roads are. predictable.
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download the official location to yourself and choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorites. if you're away from your television. with your mobile device so you can watch ati any time anyway. the republican via kuta here lies the event some special nomad camp of how. it is situated four thousand four hundred kilometers from moscow and two thousand
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kilometers from alaska. yes yes come here. what's wrong with him. take a look but his hoop is also fallen. but yes he can't get much food from under the snow because of the pain in his leg he's lost weight and need to vet. the contact base right away. to. the nearest villages have to steer one hundred kilometers away thick forest is all around there are no roads c.b. radio is the only means of communication here but go a common horseshoe. roger having missed me. not even for century.
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why it's happened. reindeer are sick we need medicine. it's coming ok good. ramen soon video of left to cook scratch a stiff few hours after news of the crippled reindeer came through ramon is always ready for a long journey even though his car doesn't have a jack wrench or even a rope and it only has a shovel. not what the people began calling me as soon as they knew i was coming they wanted me to bring some basic supplies with me. off and i wished those are all there's no other way to reach them. the reindeer herd isn't even medicine fuck you
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hunters and horse herders also need some good stuff and i think it's going to be a lot of fun. these reindeer also had it for how to steer several days ago the herd left it could use southern most knew not to come since then herders have led them through thick forest to this small country track where they will meet with friends from a village on the way. highway or i how is the journey what about the rain there that's just fine well they're comfortable in the snow so let's not waste any time below them on the truck and get going. well i'm not sure how they feel it's important that they're counting.
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turn the wheels. right. the right time telling year. the reindeer will be specially carried by truck a long track on packed snow would injure their hooves. we are taking them to a festival and hearty spirit there will take part in reindeer team races i myself have trained one of the pairs but i trained them in a forest glade where the snow is usually softer but the main thing now is to get there i wonder how they will react to all the people in the village i hope to be able to win at least one round. out of the. ring to hurdle in a can of his twenty one years old he began herding reindeer in the tighar to finishing school he didn't take him long to get accustomed to tyga life in a can't see didn't used to like visiting had to steer but some time ago he fell in
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love with a local girl indeed himself to the girl's parents and married her all within a week now for the first time in his life he yearns to revisit the village he's not yet seen that two month old daughter. is a long way to how to steer the road is started with potholes frost and lumps of snow all of them are dangerous for reindeer but the biggest problem is keeping them calm last year panic stricken reindeer overturned that trailer that's why in a county and you decide to accompany that charges this time around. traveling long distances alone in your could see it is dangerous settlements are few and far between
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a snowy road is the only guy. i didn't this vast expanse but it doesn't take long for harsh weather to obscure it from view but you know just like rock bottom you could use roads according to challenge for example it could take you ten twenty twenty four hours to cover five hundred kilometers. those planning a trip here could see as remote regions look for would be fellow travelers well in advance they advertise their plans in the press and on local television the way fare is agree on when to depart by phone beforehand even travelling with strangers is better than going it alone romanist lucky his close friend of jenny has agreed to join him on his journey. this small chapel on the hill is the best place for a meeting point. colas of how i. now find how things going.
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i'm going to take a nap in the backseat. of. the winter row takes them along the ice bound linna river thousands of years ago the ravines on its banks provided shelter. which there are lots of rock paintings in the crews here but they haven't yet been studied properly of. the rocks a crumbling away from erosion causing many paintings to disappear. nobody knows when they were made. most of the rock cart features the elk master of the siberian tiger are another animal depicted as the bison one of the main targets for hunters according to archaeologists primitive humans killed off the last bison you could hear some six
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thousand years ago scientists are for. numerous bones of magnificent beasts the ancient nomad camps. but recently direct descendants of the siberian bison reappeared here in the early twenty first century . these large mammals have an excellent sense of smell bison love that's an area because they always smell of hay they keep the bison and good health communicate with them and even help with their private lives . when bison have a matriarchal society the main herd is commanded by a wise mother she is always surrounded by young mothers and. keep away from them they roam by themselves or in small groups but there is a dawn one among them his name is yashica he insists on being with the cows.
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bison returned due to an unprecedented experiment set up by canada's elk islands national park it was the first time in history that would bison were exported to a foreign country once and you could hear they managed to enjoy the temperatures of minus sixty degrees celsius they easily adapted to life in the tyco. remand and you have kenny hit the first obstacle in that journey a vehicle stuck in a snow. plough how can you help sure no problem i'm not being the same situation tomorrow we should always help each other. the reindeer herd heads back to hop out of stock when to camp virus. canal during
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the winter people can only reach this place with snowmobiles in the summer you need a heavy duty truck to nothing else will be able to take you through the thick forest. put is don't gain any profit from rearing forest reindeer. they never stroll to their animals to sell meat no effort is made to ensure the herds continuous growth instead they make a living from hunting. for men who are good to us reindeer are like humans but they differ from them in that they are pure at heart some of them are bad tempered and some are happy. but there are also meat animals among them all of them should be treated like children but if you hurt their feelings just once they will hold a grudge against you as long as they live. a sick grain dig
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gives the hood is cause for concern now they need to examine the entire hood to satisfy themselves that all the other animals the healthy males the last suit and the employers removed new employees will grow in the spring they will harden during the also just in time to bring do races. if we come on come on. the look of your look at them go. stall hold them hold them. ok good well done. this one a strong. wouldn't weights on the necks of the animals give the herd as control without them the beasts would easily escape from their masters and scatter around the woods the eddings believe that reindeer our guardians of the human soul they also believe
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that the rain day was a gift from god to humankind by tradition they roam from place to place together with their reindeer be it summer or winter. remand any of getting have driven for hours with them to baltics for the reindeer. what do you think would be able to get any further it'll be a tough. one just because she got me and we're crossing the river there are no roads anywhere near here that almost like the strong winds blowing up all the time even if you try to clears the way the road becomes blocked off within a very short time so we need to go top speed. jamming up to make sure we don't run into a snow drift. pull me in quite a bit of trouble if we don't forge ahead otherwise we'll get stuck in the snow i'm sure but for the time being we're travelling over hogs. and now in our.
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in winter the ice on the lenna river is two and a half meters thick it is a lifeline for people living in out of the way villages supplying them with food and coal the route opens at the start of winter and last through to the end of may . these are called the land of pillows this is a protected area. few people know that the young could struggle to there's a sacred place shamans perform their rituals here. to maxime off comes from a family of shamans while performing a purification ritual he appeals to a benevolent debts known as. the shaman sounds at the site of the gigantic rupture
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that almost broke the siberian mainland into more than half a billion years ago it was at that time that the fanciful in a pill a spoof on. the shaman pleads with the winds to drive all evil to the arctic ocean and clear the skies to reveal the womb for the summer. fix to treat the white created to ferment and mez milk pulled from a you kuti in both drawn to forms his rituals only in the daytime victim never uses a tumbler eem because of the belief that it sound attractive both evil as well as good spirits. or some set the salmon appeases dark forces by playing a folk instrument called the. very are.
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they a could believe that energy from the center of the earth flows out of the pillows village elders say this is where the spirits like to congregate as for shamans it is their long standing belief that this place reconciles good and evil and life and death or are heard. secret laboratory to mccurry was able to build a most sophisticated robot which unfortunately doesn't give a darn about anything tim's mission to teach creation why it should care about humans and worry that this is why you should care only on the dog.
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on the snow. and then the wall metal causes it to melt. and the more the so melts. the deeper the vehicle sinks. so we need to dig some of it out. don't worry that happens all the time. before we ended up stuck in the snow jenny had been travelling for almost thirteen hours nonstop more than an hour has been wasted him. not a single vehicle has passed by them in the time remembers thought so focused on the ailing reindeer in the village of how to steal. his nerves are strained to the point and this setback is not out. come on get rid of some of the slower from still messing around with you. off off off off.
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is the hay for the horses yes the hay will last for three days make sure you don leave ledges behind i hope you got em initially with you yes but not much. to give something to the dogs. good not even know the expected a package to arrive last night there are no special shops for hunters in the village of blue good new york to where he lives in that he usually orders his ammunition from your cook but this time it's late.
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eat. an egg net and the canary visitors. hi the people in town of send this i mean ok thanks just on time i was about to go hunting. in the hunger district respectfully called canady. after the famous literary character in james fenimore cooper's novels the to share a thorough knowledge of animal behavior legend circulating in your. outstanding achievement several years ago he single handedly killed seven will was terrorizing the people of remote villages the hunter allows only absolutely trustworthy dogs to accompany him into the tiger. dogs are always helpful but they won't even let
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you freeze to death they would cling to your body to keep you warm in the snow piles of such dogs can cope with any kind of snow no matter whether it's deep or hard they easily run through it. is unlikely to venture into the tiger without dogs by his side you could go there even without a rifle but you better steer clear of the tiger unless dogs go with you. in that he has hunted on the same hunting ground in the tighar all through his adult life he controls the numbers of wild beasts out there on his own husky smell that prey even through thick snow underwater underwater traps set up when muskrats gather for a feast. the equipment boils down to nothing more complicated than an ordinary open ended cage it's a nonviolent method nothing sharp no bullets or dogs are involved. the
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government assigns quotas to natives living in the country's north allowing them to hunt for muskrat sable and squirrel it took one of your cooties best hunters just an hour to catch ten muskrats without firing a single shot. you take a look at that. but the ammunition he's received from your cook school come in handy as the a cook saying goes the big hunt and sunrise a one in the same. a frozen some times over how to steer only dogs seem able to defy the bitter cold. the villages main road is empty early in the morning all of the residents flock to the river bank. today is
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a celebration parade it is good as it is their most important day of the year in accordance with an old ever think custom women give the guests white bread and wave spruce branches to ward off evil spirits. traditional dress is a major specially for this occasion and the guests are treated to the best meat in stock before the start of rain display races people visit the fair laid out on the bank luring trade accompanies the merry making. a glass down to biologics for the ailing rain arrive at how to steer from it could scramble nearly twenty four hours after the news of its illness came through but i may tell you good to see here did you get it. yes. this should be given before everything else all the instructions of the. first minutes of journey twenty
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four hours in all that's ok you made a long time. ring to her the jewel stand procopio makes haste it's important for him to get to compass for some set it's a long way off. meanwhile festivities are in full swing to steer rain to her his entire family's flock here from every known much camp and so in your country they want to know who's good is best going.
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to get their cars because there's a tricky turn mayor. although in the counties in town he can see his little door so it's minus thirty seven degrees celsius so his family stays at home missing out on the chance to congratulate him on his first ever victory. along with his brother hugh gore in the canteen wims the mounted reindeer race to victory makes the manageable for the final round the festival's main event. well done i did my best. for mr happy because this is my first when the general round is about to start i'll try to win but reindeer can be difficult to write because it.
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plays. normally safety is ensured by sending two snowmobiles on a long trek through the tide whatever is needed for survival out here is loaded on to the sleighs reduced down nose to today's
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a day of festivities his size against bothering anyone before he sets off it's a risky journey but he makes it back safely to the moments when to come. i'm back with the antibiotics let's give him a quick dose you got here pretty quickly. as often doubles vets in winter camps they spend more time with brain dead than they do with people they know all the symptoms and can immediately diagnose rainy day illnesses this can also tell exactly how much medicine arranged in needs the problem however is that sometimes they run short on medical supplies it's lucky if deliveries arrive on time. it'll be ok just relax careful.
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there we go. over this. smallest native ethnic group in the cutest south they have appeared to the same simple calls for centuries if the rain did disappear so poorly of banks. when friends around a sick woman feels better i think she will go on living. live
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the speed. limit. live like a missile or a live. look at him. live.

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