PHOTO OF THE DAY November 30, 2004  

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Where Siberia, Russia
When 1996
Photographer Maria Stenzel

A Nenets brigade, or herding group, makes ready to follow their reindeer to summer pastureland. The journey to the treeless tundra within the Arctic Circle is one of some 200 miles (322 kilometers).

(Text adapted from "Nenets: Surviving on the Siberian Tundra," March 1998, National Geographic magazine)

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Nenets: Surviving on the Siberian Tundra," March 1998, National Geographic magazine)


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