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Lives from afar

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Living at high altitude in the Andes, the Q’eros people of Peru are perhaps the last guardians of Inca traditions. Their mix of Christianity and Andean beliefs fascinates photographer Franck Charton who has come to document the ‘Qoyllurit’i’, an impressive religious festival of processions, dances and prayer.

Travelling Photographers (8/10)

Living at high altitude in the Andes, the Q’eros people of Peru are perhaps the last guardians of Inca traditions. 

Peru: People of the High Andes

Since 1963, a unique railway line has traversed Mauritania and its oceans of sand. The 2.5-kilometre-long desert train, with more than 100 wagons, was built to transport iron ore to the Atlantic coast and has become a vital means of transport for the desert inhabitants.

GEO Reportage

The 2.5-kilometre-long desert train, with more than 100 wagons, was built to transport iron ore to the Atlantic coast and has become a vital means of transport for the desert inhabitants.

Mauritania: The Desert Train

Since ancient times Indigo’s rich blue has been in demand  
for clothes and other fabrics. Makers of natural indigo dye in rural Mexico follow an age-old and laborious process, but cheaper synthetic equivalents threaten this tradition.

Mexico's Indigo Artisans

Makers of natural indigo dye in rural Mexico follow an age-old and laborious process, but cheaper synthetic equivalents threaten this tradition.

The Guardians of Colour

A popular destination for holidaymakers, the Canaries are far from a paradise for locals, who had been struggling long before the Covid-19 pandemic. After decades of mass tourism, questions around equality and sustainable development are urgent.

A popular destination for holidaymakers, the Canaries are far from a paradise for locals

Re: Tourism Monoculture on the Canary Islands

In his small apartment in Masuria, Juliusz, 91, dreams of summer. All he wants is to escape to his cabin in the Carpathians, on the shores of Lake Solina, where he lives a simple, rustic life. Krzysztof, at 77, is a youngster by comparison. He came to the forest in 1981 to escape political repression and never left. He believes his life in the countryside is the key to happiness.

Meet the aging hippies who embrace a simple life in the Carpathians, on the shores of Lake Solina

The Vagabonds of the Carpathians

Designer Erik Spiekermann explains how he created the map for Berlin's newly unified public transport network, just after reunification and the fall of the Berlin wall.

Gymnastics

Designer Erik Spiekermann explains how he created the map for Berlin's newly unified public transport network

How a Map Healed Berlin

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In the remote valleys of the Hindu Kush live the Kalash people, the smallest ethnic minority in Pakistan. With a distinct culture and polytheistic religion, they are said to be descendants of Alexander the Great’s troops. But modern life is reaching their valleys and their culture and way of live is under threat.

The Kalash of the Hindu Kush

Ski jumping is not just for men anymore. Since 2014 women’s ski jumping has been included in the Winter Olympics. Stams, a special ski high school in Austria, is training a new generation of young athletes with nerves of steel

Ski jumping is not just for men anymore. Since 2014 women’s ski jumping has been included in the Winter Olympics. Stams, a special ski high school in Austria, is training a new generation of young athletes with nerves of steel.

Women's Ski Jumping

For the past fourteen years, Brice has taken his herd of cows to graze in vast pastures in the mountains, five months out of the year. He loves to run to the point of exhaustion in the Pyrenees, across the steep slopes, ridges and rocks at 3000 metres above sea level. It's a spartan, lonely existence, but for Brice, it is the definition of happiness.

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It's a spartan, lonely existence, but for Brice, it is the definition of happiness

Escape to a Hut in the Pyrenees

Ayurveda, from India, advocates the internal and external purification of the body, and is now being recognised by conventional medicine. We meet a convinced young doctor in Varanasi.

Ayurved is now being recognised by conventional medicine

360° GEO: Ayurvedic Medicine in India

Infamous drug baron Pablo Escobar had four hippos flown over from Africa to populate his very own zoo on his private estate in Columbia. After his death in 1993, the hippos escaped and have been colonising local waterways ever since. Conservationists are now waging a war against this invasive species which is harmful to the local ecosystem and highly dangerous to humans.

Geo Reportage

Infamous drug baron Pablo Escobar had four hippos flown over from Africa to populate his very own zoo on his private estate in Columbia. But then they escaped.

Peru: People of the High Andes - Travelling Photographers (8/10)

Mauritania: The Desert Train - GEO Reportage

The Guardians of Colour - Mexico's Indigo Artisans

Re: Tourism Monoculture on the Canary Islands

The Vagabonds of the Carpathians

How a Map Healed Berlin - Gymnastics

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The Kalash of the Hindu Kush

Women's Ski Jumping - GEO Reportage

Escape to a Hut in the Pyrenees - 360° GEO

360° GEO: Ayurvedic Medicine in India

Pablo Escobar's Hippos - Geo Reportage

Mauritania: The Desert Train - GEO Reportage

The Guardians of Colour - Mexico's Indigo Artisans

The Vagabonds of the Carpathians

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Peru: People of the High Andes - Travelling Photographers (8/10)

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The Kalash of the Hindu Kush

Women's Ski Jumping - GEO Reportage

Escape to a Hut in the Pyrenees - 360° GEO

360° GEO: Ayurvedic Medicine in India

Pablo Escobar's Hippos - Geo Reportage

Mauritania: The Desert Train - GEO Reportage

The Guardians of Colour - Mexico's Indigo Artisans

The Vagabonds of the Carpathians

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