National Geographic - USA (2021-03)

Pakistani soldiers receive instruction on how to operate a 37-mm antiaircraft gun. Hostilities ended in 2003 when a cease- fire ...

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precisely the full visual evidence of the text in the new policy.” THE MOUNTAINEER I first heard of the Siachen Glacier from a c ...

A well-maintained path leads to a rock patio for prayer at the Gora I post. “We never discuss hardships with our families,” one ...

meaning “cloud messenger.” Using helicopters, the army inserted a platoon of soldiers to occupy the Bilafond La, one of the moun ...

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Soldiers pass a gla- ciated side valley on their way to Gayari, where a similar ice field released an ava- lanche some 2,500 fee ...

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Four enlisted men maintain the post at Urdukas, perched above the Baltoro Glacier at 13,200 feet. Soldiers struggle with boredom ...

is measured in cigarettes and cups of tea, games of volleyball or cricket, prayers and daily chores.  Both India and Pakistan ha ...

Freddie Wilkinson wrote about installing weather stations on Mount Everest in the July 2020 issue. Cory Richards’s photographs o ...

THEY’RE OFF BY CRAIG PITTMAN PHOTOGRAPHS BY ERIKA LARSEN Greyhound racing in the U.S. is on its last leg after Florida ended bet ...

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RIGHT Susan Butchko pets her recently adopted dog, a retired racing greyhound named Remy. She has been fostering and adopting gr ...

of animals in the entertainment field, such as circuses. Derby Lane’s last race was scheduled for December 27. Davis, a slender ...

tracks elsewhere undoubtedly would follow. “In 20 years, will anyone even remember what grey- hound racing was?” This is the one ...

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