On one sunny morning when everyone else was busy fighting, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, one Chukcha and one Kalaaleq (Greenlander) were busy eating reindeer meet, drinking tea made out of tundra berries and making plans for the future.
They were sitting in the Chum, a mobile home made out of reindeer skins; it was cool and pleasant inside. There was no electricity, but there was plenty of light. There was no air-condition, but people were not sweating. Children ran in and out all the time; they were not depressed or bored. They were not missing gadgets.
Today they were learning...
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Yesterday we celebrated the first ever Polar Explorer Day - a new professional holiday in Russia. Whose day is that? Arthur Chilingarov explains: “Many think that the world’s community of polar explorers is a cozy club. A tiny one, with fancy membership cards. That’s not true. Firstly and most significantly, it is a community of Arctic people permanently living and working in the Far North. They are Arctic’s first and most important explorers – from Greenland to Siberia”.
Two great explorers - one from Greenland and another one from Russia - said that they will unite Arctic peoples.
On...
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Avannaa is an eyewitness cultural expedition to the world’s most isolated communities affected by climate and societal change. Avannaa offers a unique view of the people and their natural habitats in the hardest-to-reach places that otherwise stay invisible to the eyes of decision makers and general audiences worldwide.
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