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PHOTO OF THE DAY February 12, 2004  

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Where Yar Sale, Yamal Peninsula, Siberia, Russia
When 1996
Photographer Maria Stenzel

Nenets men engage in a wrestling match at the annual spring festival in Yar Sale. The herders stop at the town on their trek north to summer pastures for their reindeer.

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Nenets: Surviving on the Siberian Tundra," March 1998, National Geographic magazine)

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