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the reindeer herd isn't even medicine. hunters and horse herders also need some goods but i think it's going to be a lot of fun. these reindeer also headed for how to steer several days ago the herd left it could use of the most moonlight camp since then herders have led them through thick forest to this small country track where they will meet with friends from a village away. hi there. how is the journey what other reindeer. are there just fine they're comfortable in the snow so let's not waste any time below them on the truck and get going oh well i'm not sure how they feel it's important that they're come.
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turn the wheels to the right. to the right time telling it. the rain day will be specially carried by truck a long trek compact snow would injure their hooves. we are taking them to a festival in the steerage 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 than 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 hurt in a candy store called 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 and did 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 studded 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 cookie it is dangerous settlements a few and far between
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a snowy road is the only guide in this vast expanse but it doesn't take long for harsh weather to obscure it from view. on this large rock bottom you could use roads a quantity challenge for example it could take you ten twenty twenty four hours to cover five hundred kilometers. the first 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 to wayfarers agree on when to depart by phone beforehand even travelling with strangers is better than going it alone for a man is lucky his close friend if jenny has agreed to join him on his journey. this small chapel on the hill is the best place for a meeting point. cole's most high. non-flying how's this going. i'm
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going to take a nap in the back seat. of. the winter road takes them along the ice bound linna river thousands of years ago the ravines on its banks provided shelter. there are lots of rock paintings or new cures 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 rough cart features the elk master of the siberian tiger another animal to pick is 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 have found numerous bones of the 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 an area because they always smell of hay they keep the bison in good health communicate with them and even help with their private lives. woman bison have a matriarchal society there but the main herd is commanded by a wise mother she is always surrounded by young mothers and the cubs bulls 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. by. eisen returned due to an unprecedented experiment set up by canada's elk island
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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 tai-chi. remand and you have kenny hit the first obstacle in that journey a vehicle stuck in the snow. below hi can you help you're sure no problem i know i mean the same situation tomorrow we should always hope each other. the reindeer herd heads back to help out of stock when to camp virus stream canal
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during 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. but is don't gain any profit from rearing forest reindeer in your course here 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. it
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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 a last suit on them clothes removed new on clothes will grow in the spring they will harden during the old so just in time to bring do races. we come on come on. the look of your look at him go quick. stop hold him hold him ok good. this one is strong. wooden 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 are 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. or do you think you'll be able to get any further it'll be a tough. one just because the gamut we're crossing the river there are no roads anywhere near here well there's a 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 speed. 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'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 go to this is sacred place shamans perform their rituals here. normal. to maxime off comes from a family of shamans performing a purification ritual he appeals to a benevolent dad see. the shaman sounds at the site of the gigantic rupture that
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almost broke the siberian mainland into more than half a billion years ago it was at that time 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 of the sun. good to treat the white creator to fermented mez milk pulled from a u. 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 attracts both evil as well as good spirits. or some set the salmon a piece is dark forces by playing a folk instrument called a. barrier.
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thanks. was stuck. with had to give the spades up. washington because axel is sitting on the snow. and the wall metal causes it to melt. the more the slow melts. 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 run manuf jenny had been travelling for almost thirteen hours nonstop more than an hour has been wasted him. not
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a single vehicle has passed by them in that time remembers thoughts of focused on the ailing reindeer in the village of how to steal. his nerves are strained to the minute 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 don leave ledges 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 bull tack where he lives in and he usually orders his ammunition from your cook but this time it's late. eat. an egg net and again not even got visitors. so high the people in town of send this i mean listen ok thanks just on time i was about to go hunting. could skin the hunger last district respectfully called canady got to go after the famous literary character in james fenimore cooper's
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novels the to share a thorough knowledge of the animal behavior legend circulating in your eulogize cannot ease 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 you freeze to death they would cling to your body to keep you warm in the snow poses. 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 huskies smell their prey
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even through thick snow underwater underwater traps are set up when muskrats gather for a feast with 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 dog 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 a new good as it is their most important day of the year in accordance with an old and think 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 stock before the start of lame display races people visit the faire 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 it could school nearly twenty four hours after the news of its illness came through so i may tell you good to see you did you get it. yes here this should be given before everything else all the instructions of the. last minutes of journey twenty four hours in all that's ok you made a long time. frame to heard a joyous stand procopio mixed. based it's important for him to get to campus for sunset it's a long way off and. meanwhile
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festivities are in full swing to steer the reindeer herd as entire families flock here from every known much camp and so in your county they want to know who's good is best going. after powers because there's a tricky turn mayor. although in the counties in town he can't see his little doorstep 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 wins the mountain range
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normally safety is ensured by sending two snowmobiles on a long trek through the tide whatever is needed for survival out here is loaded onto the sleighs reduced down nose to today's a day of festivities he sighs again sponsoring 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 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 range to illnesses this can also tell
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exactly how much medicine arranged in 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. there you go. to the smallest native ethnic group in the cutest south they have a hey. to the same simple for centuries if the rain did disappear so play a banks. when friends around a sick one feels better i think he will go on living. sigrid
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