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to say is one of the world's great rivers because the whole of rested in hoff. we've come most quenching. this is denise tributaries in the south. the money all the way to the i see kara c and pull of that surgery in the middle. the victoria was a cost you called the land of the 5 elements. what's your decision that everyone knows the full main elements here at the water, the at, and 5 point a comcast here is unique because it's described as a line to follow you've elements. why? well, let's start with the meaning mountains and landscapes on soft comcast. the indigenous population of culture as here. cool themselves the children of the mountains. so it's a very old local police for the weather. now. what uh we have a huge roof i. e n a c, which you'll thousands of streams and hundreds of lakes. i see,

it looks like the idea is how satisfied it is covered with snow in winter, and it melts on the day of the spring at twin oaks and you let them, the ju policy wasn't even filling the streams that the fire comcast sherman's worship fi. it's presenting electric tools and electrons. vanya, there's an error, is unique, and hawk has the built in to look about the great spirits in the sky of the great spirit of act, which is supposed to rain over. how has the 5th element is unique to this place? we talking here about special historical and cultural heritage such as the menus. wilks had 2 clips, one of a coined sculptures, etc. that's why, how has the it is known as the land of 5 elements. and let me just to see, you mentioned the any say here, the world's 5th largest. we have lots of interesting facts. can you tell me about that? no. the units say is the main router way of co cause the a,

it flows through the whole republic, expanding of 4000 kilometers is the longest river in the world to give you some perspective. it's 110th of the lens of the equate to which is an immense distance every year to live as o foot 650 kilometer cube of move that into the ocean. that is a loss of water. just imagine a cuba for to, with each side measuring one kilometer. and here we're talking about $650.00 of such cubes. we can talk about, begin to say it's very beautiful for stuff is cost. you can see it here. and how does this ducks very along the length release of the, in a se varies greatly and this reflects krakowski a itself. the depth of the roof of varies from just a few meters in some places up to 70 meters. in of is it's the result of tx tonic

events in this area. it created very uneven terrain and late to begin this phase, which is fill these cos. it's very diverse for such a large river must be home, some unique floor and phone, a little wildlife lives in the going to say, i don't these banks now the roof uh, originates into, uh and goes all the way to the all creek ocean, which means it's a home to an astounding variety of fluoride and fullness report flows through different habitats, ranging from alpine meadows, at the source. down to the cold choose of the arctic ocean. the across is tundra, tiger foothill steps, and all kinds of other landscape. understandably, very different species of wildlife are to be found in or near the roof of the upper course of the, in the se runs through the habitat of the snow leopard. an extremely rare animal

while pull up as a room, the expenses and the are its most a lot of diversity. phone of the refund itself, the similarity which we half re fish species, he like land or siberian time. and as well as more wide spread ones like a cru see in comp coleman called a hike, etc. mm hm. oh just one. so i see i've heard that the industry has been called the musta or the father. is that because of the, the critical role that he plays in the culture, an ecosystem here gets to some people call it fall, begin to say for a reason. it's the main which way of our region and the source of inspiration for a huge number of legends. some of these tell the story if it's all right and the city, the innocence built to be the son of the 2 rivers, the house and the became the mother and father. the son was very playful and stuff and but they cherished him and lovingly cool tim line s c, which is yes and can name for the in

a say your name on the origin of its present name on it would often flush the surrounding areas its level kept going up and down, but eventually he grew up and also when his parents leave to go away, they let him go and again, and so he left his dea, a child with home and wounded all the way to the arctic ocean. but another tale about the industry is very romantic and beautiful. it includes some of russia's best known natural gems, such as by count on the on g r a river. you see, like michael on the greatest lake is supposed to have had many sons over 360. how many streams flowing through it? and only one pretty door to be on guard. i do not get a seat tapped to locked up, never show to anyone, and hope that she would marry that we could to live nearby them. however, legend has it that she heard room is spread by see goes on, maybe merchant sailing by about the have sent me in a say he was supposed to be

a really fine fellow. so she fell in love with him and decided to marry him against her fault as well as of she daunted towards him by call and go mad and through a huge role being garbo, this walk is still known as sherman walter got like kind of wanted to block kind of passage, but the young guard insisted on having things her way or you can reach, be in a say on the off the road. the vienna say is to meet the force of nature, but that hasn't stopped engineers here in 3 minutes with you on know shoshanna sky, hydro electric them to find out exactly how they money is to harness the power of this might the siberian river. the

or the alex a nice to meet you, but also to wants an impressive view. this is what so unique about the sand, sushi and sky, hydro electric down the district. you know, you can see it's really a unique structure which was considered to be a feet of soviet hydro engineering. it was great to me. nobody had ever built and arch them across such a wide canyon before outage. to let you know what you meant to them as 240 to meet as high or do i need to make the switch the longest onto them in the? well, i think it's, it's only if what you meant. the length of it is crest is more than a kilometer on it, killing me. it's bullshit the dam. this high creates a water pressure of 200 meters. can you imagine that the water with the other side of them is roughly at the level of the bottom of those big glasses? how much concrete did you use to build such an impressive structure? 9000000 cubic meters of concrete was used to build the damage on 9000000. and how

can you imagine $9000000.00 of those to give you an idea that the amount of concrete would be enough to build a 2 lane highway from moscow to effective us. still cause you will still get a more narrow post to the moon. i'm good. only amazing. amazing. and how did you even go about starting to build this dom did you have to block the unit? say 1st, this is unit say is truly a magnificent river. moving $7000.00 sometimes up to 9000 cubic meters of water per 2nd in some yes, we would know so many years. they managed to harness it this year and this is how they did it. it was, they built a temporary dime of us and rocks across the river. there's most come and then over there, under the 1st 2 letters of the load where the spillway is now, they installed released gates, which have been closed since then. then a time was chosen when the industry was like its lowest point. we don't these up periods when it gets the least amount of water from its tributaries event they,

we rooted its flow through those gates. that's blocking the unit, say anything like a full, quickly completing the dam. no, the cell no restrictions kind of hard to relate to dummy's. also in the dennis bulk of world records as being the strongest structure of its type, more gives it such strength because i've mentioned would require 9000000 cubic meters of concrete to build up what she was doing. why so much with most the actually this an area of strong size make activity in us. we do get us quakes here, although we haven't had one in quite a while with the customer as a rule. they originate in 2 of the well mongolia, but they can reach your area or as well. so you have an extremely wide canyon and seismic activity and see what but it was too tempting to build a dime here because the unit. so you have such a high flow rate and can provide enough water pressure to 1010 turbines. you could have the biggest and rush off we know for each of them, generate $640.00 megawatts, okay? which means that each of these tub buttons,

or hydro units can prefer to use as much electricity as a relatively large standalone hydro electric power plant. there are 10 of them here . what, why is it so strong? but it contains a lot of concrete when the structure was made extremely durable due to the strength of seismic activity, according to the specifications, it should be able to withstand a magnitude 8 quake and the covering of right underneath it. nevertheless, i say back in 2009 the, there was a disaster, and most of the 70 people died will cause this disaster. and what lessons have you learned from it to prevent it from happening again? the subjects in the bolts securing the color of one of the tub binds broken down the road to shut up into the machinery hole, which at the nobody had ever thought that was possible for them. it was a huge lesson, no 70, for all of us. would also have a hydro engineers around the world when your input and conclusions have been drawn from the incident and the site on associated scale. hydro electric power station has been extensively motor nice since then the hydro units are being replaced with

mole mode and then say for once we use the not just restore, we'll have somebody in a multi level safety system as being added, which provides for all imaginable contingencies humans, the sheets of something happen, it'll kick in automatically. so if one system fails from another will be activated who get lost of that modernization. and so you all know. so shantika is probably the most modern and the safest hydro electric power station in the world. that's good to know, standing here. and finally i look say what impacts has such a big dumb out on the surrounding ecosystem here basically architects of the say on the solution scale, hydro electric power station were aware of environmental concerns so. so the nature was f was created here to address those when he was a monitors the environmental situation generalizes the impact of the damn and the reservoir on ecosystems. annual studies show that it was owned, as well as it's still another important thing to note is that the water and going through this loose gates comes from the books from us, the rest of law. but we from the other side of the them,

not from the surface you moving, so it's warmer in winter, 3 times colder. and some of that is why the water in the unit se stays at about 10 degrees celsius solely around for that. and that's which means the dam helps to stabilize the micro at clack, the most deeply. making winters will know. and some of us cool on us. a few things to will know winter's we can now grow apples as a breakout sunday from grapes suitable for winemaking around here. this is inside the area and you'll notice it's hot climate. it's always to be, well, i'd like to try that twine the every client has its own sacred mountain. so we've come to the best mountain range . and the single key was to find out what customs and beliefs the people they have

. a role the mountains play and the lives the actual. how did these hills form the so as usual, those like waves from the nick with some to is believe the man made you know that these john county and the us landing spot? well, the trying so joined animals, of course not the range of some do key consists of 5 hills, which you can see over the back in the devonian period 370000000 years ago, they were pushed on by taking tony movements. this is how the cross is split, which is why the soon to key rise smoothly. on one side, i have a shop drop on the other that completely natural phenomenon and the name single key meaning chests. also unusual why they called just? well yes, some of the day if you look at the top of the 1st on the can with a good job of the hill with walking on its shape and resembles a chest separate top layers, white water. while the rest of the rug is red interest. but that's why they became

popular, they known as the single key. as long as the hawk, us name is on low cost, which means sites and more exciting devices. what does matter that's a reflection of the sd and on the glass space of this sacred sites to i'm talking about the 1st single of some, i've had a legend about it. that's when the world was covered in oceans. the midst of this was the 1st mountain to rise out of it. what can you tell me about that? the midst of the sacred mountain is universal, founding cultures all around the world. every civilization has its own sacred mountain and some of the most famous things the limp is for. the greeks may or may rule for the chinese there. as i see for the persians and around the medians, and even the egyptian and aspect pyramids of attempts to replicate the concept of a mountain in this region, starting from the 3rd millennium b. c. the 1st one do was consider the world's mountain. it was a place of great significance accessible and we need to increase and clergy who

performed rituals here for over 3000 years as you travel 3 to 400 kilometers away, other civilizations identified new world mountains. but for those who lived here the 1st soon do remain central onto the site found on the 1st on the own ritualistic in nature. these include various ceramic vessels with several assembled level tools, ones and broken arrow heads this all discarded for the sacrifices and offerings to the son. it is without doubt essentially, what can we take a closer look up to him. okay, excellent. now some believe that this is one of if not the oldest open observatory in the world, how did people back then use this formation to look at the sky? a sewing machine in a single car inside and there were numerous ontological size with no 16 kilometers . a radius of this on the mountain, the close at 8 tied to astronomy. normally when there was a significant saving,

the people, the people called holes in the rocks from your place, slams that specific angles for a new range stones to line with the sun. and having the course they did this to observe an owner of the sun as part of a widespread, something called that cause. the sun call was not unique to this region here is existed across the world, missiles, reading your book, just as the most well known son worship took place in egypt, and it was practice here in much the same way. most the police involve this time profound meaning has been credited. this is why we think the purpose was to join a witness and greet the son of god on the phone book. that's why these places offer referred to as observatories. thing if you look around nearly every mountain in this area, as monuments in some way related to astronomy, owing to the 1st on to where we stand. now, what was the last of the morning? this was the world mountain, little person with the same tree, the dwelling place of the gods, god with a sun and moon touch,

the sky. gotcha. they, it wasn't immensely important to connect the equipment to list state some of it. so in sync with side. so the people of that time is kind of that was the end, but they've just like many cultures across the globe and everything was deeply connected to astronomy team at the senior senior. i'm against the though that replaces like this, reading this one over the well. and one officially about this one here isn't, was one of the oldest sites of his kind, a thing bank to 3000 b c. the street that when it was an active site of worship that go under amazing and role does this some don't play in the lives of people these days. the most today, this area is known as cost. yeah. so this directly, this area was populated by indo europeans until the 2nd century, a d. i went to a few people till cova smith and the south. caustic came to be like a couple quick questions here with today. we also have some of the to perform the annual rituals here to celebrate the summer solstice, which is the,

is great is celebration because the sun is high and the day is long. the people have been considering this a special day of worship of the celebration since pretty historic times school. so today, summit has continued to make offerings to the spirits. and if this tradition is thousands of years old, i thought i was in this particular place. because when i lived for 5000 years, the only relatively miles climbs that the industry in the south of the region. we've now come to a rather chile and drizzly, but no less during the school. he's in the north and to about to embark on an expedition deep into the heck us mounts the. let's just say you, we've us lift, offload very colors. sets off on thoughts into the mountains. so for a cost, yes, i'm here with our guides. you've denny and he's been telling me some interesting

thoughts about these pods. there was insights, a gold rush, the early 18 hundreds earlier in the famous one in california. and the name of the settlements police go lawyer. so if folding down things you have get a, an comes from the russian would priest, which means mine, let us know most gold left to these days. unfortunately with us not to say that there are some treasures to be found here. now i've been checking for a couple of hours or so, but i can definitely say it's as it looks about storing the, the if jenny, this place isn't exactly the easiest to get to. are there any plans to, to make you more accessible to people? oh, that's spelled the country side here, right? and you know, if the, if i agree with you that building a wooden plank trail here would contradict the very idea of coming to this place to enjoying a trip and what and how i can the mountains as opposed to walking on paved walkways,

are these building appropriate roads to access this place would be a great improvement to the facilitates a little bit across. now it's been a while since we've seen in the houses, and i don't think we've actually seen anyone else on our way here. it's not even mode school. so wild life is there any spots there? it's like a city paul can really hear, will have bags instead of square arrows, we give them names. there is a bag called does show with 3 tubs when the mall show with to comes up and that she even visits does show. and we saw it today. it would be no brownback called your would also comes volume. yeah. then the raise, the range, the come from these board is the migrate. so give me who are you, then we'll see them fairly soon, i guess was also a side view and l showed up the season. luckily, we also get the links and both of the readings to plus books is very common. so you think we might see them today? yeah, so it's quite possible i hope so. and with by one of the yvonne of scale lakes, here is this fantastic emerald color. why is it so pride like this?

yeah, only believe that the color is defined by the minerals contained in the late or, but there is gold and silver in the mineral composition. of dislike the crosby's mountains, you will find the lakes of a different color from the deep blue. that's due to a different chemical formula with. but i think this color is quite typical for late in the mountains. now this isn't the suggestion of guinea, but the people swim in these lakes the yes they do. they also dive as well as swim you've got the people come here to train for a swimming competition on lake by called was they often turn up in morning before a day of practice and leaving the evening. you nice. nowhere obviously had the tail end of the summit, but this place is better known among skiers and snowboard is so it's a windsor. what makes it so special for those sports fellow? can i place you are exactly right and the snow you'll find here is you need more of the for the if there is a now pine scheme area where this note is very dense and stated. but there are also

places with power soft snow, like in japan, the piece the, the people who know they sleep to say quick like to get half us of mind and can only then choose the mountains to ski on them depending on the conditions each day throughout the year because i've had this place has been compared to the fairy tale, the 12 months. do you think that's a fair comparison? you can only thing. that's the reason i ended up staying in this place. even though originally i only came here for a day when you go out in the mountains, usually truly get to experience all 4 seasons in a single day from a snowy winter to spring and then to a hot summer. amazing. are you getting you with arrived here and they also late on i see the still some, some ice on the mountain side, but not completely melts even soma. there is a reason why he doesn't know to them as we go up the mountain we may encounter in terms of zone and then a glacial zone. that's reason number one. reason number 2 is where we are

a little bit closer to the northern latitude, even though it is called the south increasing number 3. the slopes here on ne facing, they're also quite steep. so this is the station. and that explains that. i see miracle. you see this is squared away. that's why we've got l pine ice given it's a relatively low altitude vice prepaid nissan. say it is the only place on the, if you with this know, doesn't know at this low altitude people are in a sense that's true. and if it's like this in the summer, one of the conditions like here in the winter, a winter is the crumbling jewel of the mountains. this place gets covered with an enormous amount of snow, very soft snow. in fact, there are these huge, overhanging ledges you can ski on them or jump all to them. but just like when you were a kid also though it gets completely covered in winter, the ice is relatively same, but the layer of snow on top of it is massive. literally 10 meters of snow. that's

up and that's considered normal here. the place where we all know everything gets covered with fresh snow during the winter. snow forms here, mostly due to the wind cracking it across, and it comes from the south from the east, accessed snow from the mountains old accumulates here as from the mountains themselves. they get the snow from the west and from the northwest. i think we should come back here and the wind set to see what it's like then. absolutely, this is a place you simply have to seeing the winter. so if it came back in winter, you have guinea. where would we ski down the mountain side. that's easy. we can calling by ourselves with a group that started from this i was on the mountain, didn't make a jump from one of the ledges there onto this load. and finally have a nice lunch down here on the lake. you make it sounds so easy, but i'm still a beginner. i know it may seem like something only pros can do, but it's actually surprisingly easy. so okay, so i guess we'll find out in a couple of months time, then great, thanks you've getting the,

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