Life in the freezer: the film was released the BBC about migrating Nenets reindeer herders

On the American channel Animal Planet released an eight-minute documentary Epic Animal Journeys. In December 2016 travel BBC photographer Timothy Allen (Timothy Allen) came in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug to photograph the annual migration of the Nenets people with their reindeer. Together with them, he for 16 days, walked 800 kilometers on the frozen river Ob in the dead of winter: the temperature at this time reaches -45°C.

The Nenets, also known as Samoyeds, the indigenous inhabitants of the North of Russia. This is the last people in the world, having preserved the traditions of reindeer herding, when the onset of winter herds driven from Northern summer pastures South of the Arctic circle.

The word Yamal Nenets language roughly translates as "on the edge" or "end of the world".

Nenets Anastasia goes ahead of his flock.

Husband Of Anastasia Maxim.

Maxim throws a deer the harness, to harness him to a sled.

Northern lights over the empty camp.

Timothy Allen in Utah suit and the Director of the film crew That.

At every halt the tribe breaks camp.

The evening Cup of tea. For the sake of survival in the far North, Nenets eating raw reindeer meat with blood in it contains vitamins C and B2, which protect them from scurvy.

In addition to deer, during the migration of the Nenets accompanied by a dog. Here they sleep in a tent.

People watching the camp.

Briton Timothy Allen is known as the operator of a BBC documentary film "earth of humanity" and the photographer shooting wildlife. In 2013 and 2016 he won the international competition for travel photographers, who has been held since 2003.

Movie trailer Epic Animal Journeys.