“Renskiljning” is an important stage in the winter transhumance of the semi-domestic herds of reindeers of Lapland : it means “sorting” the reindeers : each family from the Lappish village gathered at the end of the autumn several thousands of reindeers to sort them according to their earmark which corresponds to one of the members of the family before embarking them in January on trucks in direction of the place of wintering on the Baltic coast with the climate relatively softer.
This small video was carried out by - 36 C° at the end of January 2004 by the “Svaipa” village, 40 km of the Polar Arctic Circle.
Often, the winter conditions - as currently in 2007 - prevents the still free reindeers in the mountain from being nourished by themselves because the ground is covered by a layer of ice.
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