tv [untitled] February 3, 2013 6:30pm-7:00pm EST
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the republicans be a cootie here lies 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 him. take a look but his hoop is also fallen. 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 to. get out of the context base right away. to. the nearest villages have to steer one hundred kilometers away thick forest is all
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around there are no roads c.b. radio is the only means of communication here but go home in horseshoe. roger having missed me. not even for century. why it's happened. the reindeer are sick we need medicine. it's coming ok good. ramen soon video of left to cook for how to steer few hours after news of the crippled reindeer came through a man is always ready for
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a long journey even though his car doesn't have a jack wrench or even a rope in it he only has a shovel. know what the people began calling me as soon as they knew i was coming they wanted me to bring some basic supplies with me that something must be accomplished those are all there's no other way to reach them. the reindeer herd isn't even medicine fuck you that hunters and horse herders also need some goods 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 away. hi
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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 will load them on the truck and get going oh well i'm not sure how they feel it's important that their county. can. turn the wheels. right. to 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 how to steer it 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 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
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win at least one round. out of the. ring to hurt or 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 he didn't used to like visiting how to steer but some time ago he fell in 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 their two month old daughter. that. 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 their trailer that's why in a kantian you decide to accompany their charges this time around.
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travelling long distances alone in your could see 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 but not just like rock bottom you could use 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 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 wayfarer's agree on when to depart by phone beforehand even travelling with strangers is better than going it alone romanist lucky his close friend if jenny
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has agreed to join him on his journey. this small chapel on the hill is the best place for a meeting point. the coalition of how i. now find our house things going. on going to take a nap in the back seat. of. the winter road takes them along the icebound linna river thousands of years ago the ravines on its banks provided shelter. 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.
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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 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
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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 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 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 their journey a vehicle stuck in a snow. plough how can you help sure no problem i might be in the same situation tomorrow we should
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always help each other. the reindeer herd heads back to help 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. put is don't gain any profit from rearing forest reindeer and 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
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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 in. a sick grained gives the hood is 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 and clothes will grow in the spring they will harden during the also just in time to bring do races. we come on come on. the look of your love look at him go. stop hold him hold i'm. ok good well done. this one strong.
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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 our guardians of the human soul they also believe 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 helmets off. what just because a gamma where crossing the river there are no roads anywhere near that almost like the strong winds blowing up all the time even if you try to clears the way the road
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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 get stuck in the snow machine but for the time being we're travelling over hot. 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 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 the year could struggle to there's a sacred place shamans perform their rituals here. normal.
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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 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 spur from. 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 fermented mez milk pulled from a u. kuti in both the chart on the two forms his rituals only in the daytime victim
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never uses a tambourine because of the belief that its sound attracts both evil as well as good spirits. or some set the salmon appeases dark forces by playing a folk instrument called a. very or a very are. they it 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 occurred.
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thanks. was stuck. with had to give the spades up. watching that because axel is sitting 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 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 here. not 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
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limit and this setback has not helped c'mon get rid of some of the snow from still messing around with you ah. ah . this 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 em initially with you yes but not much. to give something to the dogs. good ninety ivanov expected
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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 cooks but this time it's late. eat. an egg net and the good night even got visitors. so high the people in town of sun 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 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
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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 poison. 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 it 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 their prey even through thick snow underwater underwater traps are set up when muskrats gather
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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 same goes for 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.
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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 and think custom women give the guests white bread and wave spruce branches to ward off evil spirits. traditional dresses and may just 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 morning trade accompanies the merry making. a glass down to baltics for the ailing rain arrive at how to steer from yet could
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scribble nearly twenty four hours off to the news of its illness came through well i may tell you good to see you did you get it. yes here this should be given before everything else all instructions of the. last minutes of journey twenty four hours and all that's ok you made a long time. reindeer herder jeweler stan procopio makes the. haste it's important for him to get to campus for some said it's a long way off it. meanwhile festivities are in full swing to steer the reindeer herd as entire families flock here from every known much camp and so in your country they want to know who's good
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is best going. after hours because there's a tricky turn mayor. although in the counties in town he can't 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 whims the mountain range a race to victory makes the manageable for the final round the festivals main event . well done i did my best
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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 on to the sleighs 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 exactly how much medicine arranged in need the problem however is that sometimes they run short on medical supplies it's lucky if deliveries arrive on time.
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