tv Documentary RT February 3, 2013 12:29am-1:00am EST
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choose your language. choose the concerns you. choose to get the news that invigorating to. choose the stories that impact your life choose access to your office. the republicans be a killer is the event some special nomad camp of how. it is situated four thousand four hundred kilometers from moscow and two thousand kilometers from alaska yes yes come here. what's wrong with
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him. take a look at his who is also. yes he can't get much food from under the snow because of the pain in his leg he's lost weight and needs a vet. you know that in the context based 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 haven't missed me. not even for century. what's happened. the reindeer are sick we need medicine. it's coming
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ok good. ramen cimbali 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. but 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 i wish i was there all there's no other way to reach them. the reindeer herd isn't even medicine. hunters and horse herders also need some goods but i think it's going to be
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a lot of fun. these reindeer also had it for how to steer several days ago the herd left it could just 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 away. from hi there. 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 will load them on the truck and get going. when i'm not sure how they feel it's important that they're come. to turn the wheels. right. to the right time telling year.
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the rain day will be specially carried by truck a long track compact 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 they 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 love with a local girl indeed himself to the girl's parents and married her all within
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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 kantian you decide to a company that charges this time around. travelling long distances alone in your course it is dangerous settlements are few and far between 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 you know just like what you could use
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roads a coin to challenge for example it could take you ten twenty twenty four hours to cover five hundred kilometers. those planning a trip to you 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 if gainey 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 out how things going. and going to take a nap in the back seat. of. the winter road
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takes them along the ice bound linna river thousands of years ago the ravines on its banks provided shelter. of god all of which there are lots of rock paintings in the crews here but they haven't yet been studied properly of. the rocks are 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 thousand years ago scientists of. numerous bones of magnificent beasts the ancient nomad camps. but recently direct descendants
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of the siberian bison reappeared here in the early twenty first century. these large mammals have an excellent sense of smell bison love that an area because they always smell of hate they keep the bison in 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. 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
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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 tiger. remand and you have kenny hit the first obstacle in that journey a vehicle stuck in the snow. well below hi can you help sure no problem i'm not being the same situation tomorrow we should always help each other. in. the rain to hurt heads back to how part of stuck winter camp virus. canal during the winter people can only reach this place with snowmobiles in the summer you need
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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 grained gives the hood just cause for concern now they need to examine the entire hood to satisfy themselves that all the other animals a healthy males
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a last suit on them clothes removed new and clothes 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 relief look at him go. through. the stall hold him hold i'm. ok good. this one is strong. didn't wait on the necks of the animals give the hood as control without them the beasts would easily escape from the musters and scatter around the woods. believe that reindeer are guardians of the human soul they also believe that the reindeer was a gift from god to humankind by tradition they roam from place to place together with
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their reindeer be it summer or winter. remanding me 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 gamma that we're crossing the river there are no roads anywhere near here that all those strong winds blowing up all the time even if you're trying to clears the way the road becomes blocked off within a very short time so we need to go top speeds. and we have to make sure we don't run into a snow drift which. will mean quite a bit of trouble if we don't forge ahead otherwise we get stuck in the snow machine for the time being we're travelling over hearts. and now in our. 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
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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 coots regarded as a sacred place shamans perform their rituals here. victor maxime off comes from a family of shamans while performing a purification ritual he appeals to a benevolent. alkis the shaman stands at the site of the gigantic rupture that almost broke the siberian mainland into more than half a billion years ago it was at that time that the fanciful yanna pillas formed.
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the shaman pleads with the winds to drive all evil to the arctic ocean and clear the skies to reveal the wolf of the sun. victor treats the white creator to cemented men as milk pulled from a u. kuti in both. forms his rituals only in the daytime victim never uses a tumbler eem because of the belief that it sound attracts both evil as well as good spirits. or some set the some of the pieces dark forces by playing the folk instrument called a. barrier to.
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well i was stuck. with had to give the spades up. because axel is sitting on the snow. and then the wall metal causes it to melt. and the more the slow mo it's. the deeper the vehicle sinks. so we need to dig some of it out. don't worry that happens all the time. before they ended up stuck in the snow remand here jenny had been travelling for almost thirteen hours nonstop more than an hour has been wasted here. not a single vehicle has passed by them in that time remembers thoughts of focused on
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the ailing reindeer in the village of how to steal. his nerves are strained to the point and this setback has not helped c'mon get rid of some of the snow from still messing around with. ah ah . this is the day for the horses yes the hay will last for three days make sure you're done leave matches behind i hope you got em initially with you yes but not much.
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to give something to the dog's. good ninety ivanov expected a package to arrive last night there are no special shops for hunters in the village of boone york to where he lives in that he usually orders his ammunition from your cooks but this time it's late. in the american that you're not even got 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 last 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
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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 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. prey even through thick
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snow and water underwater traps are 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 government assigns quotas to natives living in the country's north allowing them to hunt for muskrat sable and squirrel they took one of your cooties best hunters just an hour to catch ten muskrats without firing a single shot. 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
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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 a celebration for rain it is good as it is their most important day of the year in accordance with an old event custom women give the guests white bread and wave spruce branches to ward off evil spirits. traditional dress is a major especially for this occasion and the guests are treated to the best meat in stoke before the start of rain display races people visit the fair laid out on the bank morning trade accompanies the merry making.
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a glass down to baltics for the ailing rain arrive at how to steer from yet could skip nearly twenty four hours off to the news of its illness came through though may see her you good to see you did you get it. yes. this should be given before everything else all instructions of the. last minutes of journey twenty four hours in all that's ok you made a long time. ring to her the jeweler stand procopio mixed. haste it's important for him to get to campus for some set it's a long way off. meanwhile festivities are in full swing to steer the reindeer herders entire families flock
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here from every known much camp and so in your country up they want to know who's good is best going. to parse the course there's a tricky turn there. although in a candy's in town he can see his little dog 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 when the mountain range a race to victory makes the manageable for the final round the festival's main
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. normally safety is ensured by sending two snowmobiles on a long trek through the tygart whatever is needed for survival out here is loaded on to the sleighs reduced down nose to today's a day of festivities he decides 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 by could be antibiotics let's give him a quick deals you got here pretty quickly. curtis 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 range to illnesses this can also tell exactly how much medicine arranged in needs the problem however is that sometimes
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they run short on medical supplies it's lucky if deliveries arrive on time. it'll be ok just relax careful. there we go. over banks of the smallest native ethnic group in the cutest south they have a head to the same simple cause for centuries if the rain did disappear so poorly of banks. when friends around a sick one feels better i think he will go on living. so
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