These snowkiters are competing at a tournament in Novosibirsk, Russia. Like kiteboarding on liquid water, the sport of snowkiting uses a parachute-like foil kite, which catches the wind and pulls the boarder along a frozen, snowy landscape. The sport wasn’t invented here in Siberia, but when January sends the mercury plunging, the freezing temperatures create ideal conditions for the sport.
Sailing across the ice
Today in History
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The Old City of Bern
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Arrr, it be Talk Like a Pirate Day
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Night of the ‘Cold Moon’
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Mediterranean red sea stars
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Riding the bore tide at Turnagain Arm, Cook Inlet, Alaska
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Pamukkale, Turkey
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Kjell Henriksen Observatory
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State funeral of Queen Elizabeth II
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Bukhansan National Park, South Korea
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Black bear cub emerging into spring
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From the mind of Frank Gehry
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The cycle begins anew
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Extraterrestrial Culture Day
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International Polar Bear Day
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Avalanche Lake Trail at Adirondack High Peaks, New York
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A misty morning in Brazil
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There was gold in them there hills…
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Montreux, Switzerland, and all that jazz
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The Guggenheim turns 60
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In Sicily, history is everywhere
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Boxing Day—a shopper’s delight
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Design for Each and All
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Ruins of a royal temple
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Celebrating Labor Day
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Silvereyes in South Korea
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Sea lion in a kelp forest, Baja California, Mexico
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Too awesome to be a planet
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Colosseum, Rome, Italy
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Ring of fire
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Santo Antão Island in the Republic of Cabo Verde
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