he Evenki live in one of the most remote places on Earth, with people who are as deeply connected to and dependant on the natural world as any.
It's quite surreal spending days riding reindeer through vast, untouched norther forests...Here, after shooting a moose while out hunting, Andrei made his day long trip back to camp to gather help (Alik and myself), round up a dozen or so reindeer, and we journey back to the site of the kill on reindeer-back. Crossing rivers and swamps, weaving our way through the taiga, we eventually came upon the young moose (a feat of navigation in an of itself) he had killed. We processed it, loaded the meat onto the reindeer and journeyed back. Perhaps we were the only people to have been to that spot, and perhaps noone will return there.
Here is the time lapse of the process.