1: Siberia | Arctic with Bruce Parry

Duration: 59'12''

Synopsis

Bruce Parry meets the Sakha horse people and Eveny reindeer herders in Siberia's Verkhoyansk Mountains to see how they are embracing the challenges of a post-Soviet Arctic.

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