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June 09, 2008
Horseman Near a Lake, Mongolia, 2003
Photograph by Gordon Wiltsie

Each fall dwindling grasslands and frigid Siberian air send a thousand people and some 60,000 animals on a treacherous journey out of Mongolia's mountain-ringed Darhad Valley to winter pastures near Lake Hovsgol, where this lone horseman rides. And each spring they pack up and go back.

(Text adapted from and photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Mongolian Crossing: Is Time Running Out on Timeless Migration?" October 2003, National Geographic magazine)

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June 10, 2008
Chinstrap Penguin, Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica, 2006
Photograph by Paul Nicklen

A solitary chinstrap penguin stands at attention on the rocky shore of the Antarctic Peninsula. These penguins, which rely less on sea ice than other species do for their survival, have thrived as climate change has warmed the ocean around Antarctica. Since 1974 their numbers have increased by some 2,700 percent.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Deadly Beauty," November 2006, National Geographic magazine)

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June 11, 2008
Nighttime Igloo, Moriusaq, Greenland, 2006
Photograph by David McLain

Light shines between the ice blocks of an igloo in Moriusaq, Greenland. Igloos are usually dome-shaped and are made of large slabs cut from compacted snow. A skilled native Greenlander can build one in just a couple of hours.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Last Days of the Ice Hunters," January 2006, National Geographic magazine)

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June 12, 2008
Fire Dancer, Bora-Bora, Society Islands, 1997
Photograph by Jodi Cobb

A riot of light illuminates the night at a Bora-Bora resort. Fire dancing is a relatively recent Polynesian tradition, originated by a Samoan dancer in 1946. It is performed with knives wired with cotton towels soaked with a flammable liquid.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "French Polynesia: Charting a New Course," June 1997, National Geographic magazine)

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June 13, 2008
Rancher and Cows, Yukon Territory, Canada, 1978
Photograph by George Mobley

A rancher attends to a mother cow and her calf at the Pelly River Ranch in Canada's Yukon Territory. Life can be hard in this rugged, picturesque territory, where winter temperatures fall to minus 58 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 50 degrees Celsius). A scant 30,000 people call the 186,000-square-mile (482,000-square-kilometer) tract home.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Yukon Fever: Call of the North," April 1978, National Geographic magazine)

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20080614June 14, 2008
Sandstone Pillars, Sahara Desert, Chad, 1999
Photograph by George Steinmetz

Spires of eroded sandstone stand like ancient pillars in the red dunes of Chad's Karnasai Valley in the central Sahara desert. Fierce winds, punishing sandstorms, and occasional douses of rain are slowly turning these rock formations back into the sand from which they were made.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Journey to the Heart of the Sahara," March 1999, National Geographic magazine)

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June 15, 2008
Shadow of a Boy, Qatar, 2003
Photograph by Robb Kendrick

Unfinished homes dot the landscape as a low sun paints a boy's shadow on the wall of a ruined house in the Qatar desert. Qatar has one of the world's fastest-growing economies. Buoyed by oil and natural gas sales, per capita income there topped $60,000 in 2006, with unemployment of less than one percent.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Revolution From the Top Down: Qatar," March 2003, National Geographic magazine)

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June 16, 2008
Laundry on Lines, High Atlas Mountains, Morocco, 2005
Photograph by Alexandra Boulat

Colorful laundry dries on lines in a Berber village in Morocco's High Atlas Mountains. Many Berbers, or Amazigh, fled to the highlands following the Arab conquest of North Africa in the seventh century A.D. Unlike the Berbers who remained with their conquerors, those who went to the High Atlas have until today managed to preserve their identity, their language, and their independence.

(Text adapted from and photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Among the Berbers: A Journey Through Morocco's High Atlas Mountains," January 2005, National Geographic magazine)

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June 17, 2008
Afar Cattle Herders, Ethiopia, 2005
Photograph by Carsten Peter

Zebu cattle driven by Afar herdsmen raise clouds of dust in the baked Danakil Desert near Semerea, Ethiopia. The Danakil is among the most forbidding places on Earth, a land of dry sands, active volcanoes, burning salt flats, temperatures that often top 120 degrees Fahrenheit (49 degrees Celsius), choking winds, and suffocating days of no wind at all.

(Text adapted from and photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Africa's Danakil Desert: Cruelest Place on Earth," October 2005, National Geographic magazine)

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June 18, 2008
Boat on the Andaman Sea, Myanmar, 2005
Photograph by Nicolas Reynard

A Moken fishing boat moves past one of the Sister Islands at sunset in Myanmar's Mergui Archipelago. These boats, called kabangs, are the mainstay of the nomadic Moken culture. Each is roughed out in the forest from a single tree, then hauled to the beach to be fitted with a hull and roof. Some take up to four months to build.

(Text adapted from and photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Sea Gypsies of Myanmar," April 2005, National Geographic magazine)