tv Documentary RT February 3, 2013 8:28am-9:00am EST
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the republicans. think some special nomad camp. is situated full thousand four hundred kilometers from moscow and two thousand kilometers from alaska. yes yes come here. what's wrong with him. take a look at his who has 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 needs a vet. contact based right away. to. the
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ramen soon video of left to cook scratch a stiff few hours after news of the crippled reindeer came through a man is always ready for a long journey even though his car doesn't have a jack a 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. but i wish those are all there's no other way to reach them for. the reindeer herd isn't even medicine. hunters and horse herders also need some goods and i think it's going to be a lot of fun. these reindeer also headed for the 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
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a village away. hi there hi 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 willow 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. the reindeer will be specially carried by truck a long trek compact snow would injure their hooves. we are taking them to a festival and how to steer a. bear will take part in reindeer team races i myself have trained one of the
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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. of the. ring to hurdle in a can of his twenty one years old he began herding reindeer in the tighar to finishing school it didn't take him long to get accustomed to tyga life in a can't he didn't used to like visiting how 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 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
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all of them are dangerous for reindeer but the biggest problem is keeping them calm last year panic stricken reindeer overturned their trailer that's why in a kantian you decide to a company that charges this time around. travelling long distances alone in your could see it is dangerous settlements a 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 but 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
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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 our house things going. i'm going to take a nap in the backseat. 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 really curious here but they haven't yet been studied properly. the rocks are crumbling
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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 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 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
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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 the bulls keep away from them they roam by themselves or in small groups but there is a dawn one among them his name is jaska 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 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.
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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 know i mean 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 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. they never stroll to their animals to sell meat no effort is made to ensure the herds continuous growth instead they make
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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 the last suit on them clothes removed new and clothes will grow in the spring they will harden during the also just in time the rain do races. we come on come on. look at your look at him go.
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hold him hold him ok good well done. this one strong. on the necks of the animals give the herders 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 their reindeer be it summer or winter. romanow 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 helmets off. one just michigan we're crossing the
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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. 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 driving over hogs. and now in our. in winter the ice on the lenna river is two and a half meters thick it is a lifeline to people living in out of the way villages supplying them with food cold the root 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 strip god it is a sacred place shamans perform their rituals here.
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victim maxime off comes from a family of shamans while performing a purification ritual he appeals to a benevolent. alcaeus 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 pillars formed. the shaman pleads with the winds to drive all evil to the arctic ocean and clear the skies to reveal the womb for the sun.
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to treat the white creator to fermented mares milk poured from a you bowl on 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 a piece is dark forces by playing a folk instrument called a. very are. they it could believe that energy from the center of the earth flows out of the. village elders say this is where the spirits like to congregate as for shannon's it is the long standing belief the displaced reconciles good and evil and life and death.
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it 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. the more the slow molds. 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
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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. come on get rid of some of the snow from still messing around with you ah. ah . is the hay for the horses yes the hay will last for three days make sure you're done leave ledges behind i hope you got emanation with you yes but not much.
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use something to the dogs. good ninety ivanov expected a package to arrive last night there are no special shops for hunters in the village of bull to 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 ninety 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 come after the famous literary character in james fenimore cooper's
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novels the to share a thorough knowledge of animal behavior legends circulating in your eulogize cannot ease outstanding achievement several years ago he single handedly killed seven will loose terrorizing the people of remote villages the hunter allows only absolutely trustworthy dogs to accompany him into the tiger. dogs are always helpful they won't even let you freeze to death they would cling to your body to keep you warm in the snow piles of. a 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
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controls the numbers of wild beasts out there on his own. prey even through thick 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 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 could come in handy as the saying goes the big hunt and sunrise one and the same.
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a frozen some hangs 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 flocked to the river bank. today is a celebration parade in the hood 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 mate in stock before the start of rain display races people visit the fair laid out on the bank luring trade accompanies the merry making.
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a glass down to baltics for the ailing reindeer arrive at how to steer from yet could nearly twenty four hours after the news of its illness came through though i may see her again good to see here did you get it. yes here this should be given before everything else all the instructions of. the first minute of journey twenty four hours in all that's ok you made a long time. frame to her the jeweler stand procopio makes haste it's important for him to get to camp before sunset it's a long way off. and . meanwhile
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festivities are in full swing to steer rain to her there's entire families flock here from every known much camp and so in your county they want to know who's heard it is. there's a tricky turn. although in the counties in town he can't see his little door 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
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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 sighs again sputtering 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 of a 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 rainy day illnesses this can also tell
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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. 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
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a sick one feels better i think he will go on living. good leverage. was able to build a most sophisticated. simply doesn't sound anything tim's mission to teach creation why it should care about humans in the world this is why you should care only. there are twelve cities in the united states in which half of the people with hiv aids lives with. over six to two percent. this is a problem that frankly is substantially preventable it was like the big elephant in
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