Gallery: Celebrating Mongolia's Beautiful, Brutal Winter Cold
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Khovsgol, Mongolia, February 2013. A woman slides down an ice ramp, made for the Ice Festival on the frozen lake of Khovsgol, the day before the festival started.
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Men practice tug-of-war on the ice before an official challenge begins. During the festival, people play various sports and games on the lake's meter-thick ice.
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Ahead of the festival, a man collects water through a hole he made in the thick ice of the lake.
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A group of camels grazes in a valley south of Khovsgol lake.
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A woman enters a ger in the morning In Khovsgol province, a few miles from the river. Goia slept one night in this hut during her visit.
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A man holds a door of his yurt that is about to be built on a shore of Khovsgol lake, a day before the beginning of the ice festival.
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Two men dismantle a hut (called a 'ger') that has to be moved.
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A man walks among the gers at a camp in the early morning.
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The surface of the frozen lake forms thin cracks and play of light that change according to the thickness of the ice. It’s said that the ice gets as thick as 1.2 meters.
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Two women walk on the frozen lake.
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View of newly developed area, seen from Zaisan Monument in Ulaanbaatar, facing south.
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A tree stands in Sukhbaatar Square, the main central square of Ulaanbaatar. Behind it stands a hotel tower.
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Sukhbaatar square, seen from the Ulaanbaatar Central Tower in the late afternoon.
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A plasmaTV shows an old movie inside a house in the outskirt of Bulgan town in the province of Bulgan.
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