North of the Arctic Circle visits and reindeer peer Sami

340 kilometers north of the Arctic Circle, in Norway such as crown edge stagger coastline, the summer sun for several weeks and do not fall, the midnight sun in the summer snow. Summer has come and gone, Sami reindeer herders has no time to pay attention to. "This time of the year we are busy to fawn marking." Ingrid Gaup said, she refers to each year old shepherd portrayed mark in the newborn fawn on customs ears.

Now Sami

In the Sami people spread in Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Northern Russia homeland, unrelated concepts and solar time running, but with a more important activities closely linked -- that is the reindeer migration.

Now Sami is only a small part of grow up herding reindeer tradition, Ella - O Spike Sweden York Mo Ke is one of them. They are young people of this generation's embrace of the ideal university. "I want to explore the world," she said, "but I hope the reindeer never disappeared from my life."

14 year old Sara high P for the confirmation and a dress. She and her father Niels Pedro, general wear that their hometown is Norway, kainuu in fig.. Reindeer boots in front of their tilt, for the convenience of embedded ski.

Sami called themselves "reindeer herder", the title of accurate interpretation of their former work: on foot or paddled wooden skis follow reindeer to seek for the best pasture and fast pace of migration, through hundreds of kilometers away. But now things have changed, and now people can only grazing in the time period, the annual fixed in certain areas of the traditional reindeer pastures in the. For the maintenance of life, and they need to purchase expensive off-road vehicle and snowmobile, used to defend territory between hundreds of kilometers long fence, and in accordance with the provisions of large-scale migration deer -- even these Provisions conflict with the reindeer. As Ingrid's husband Niels Peder Pu said: "reindeer with nose instead of eyes on. They are moving with the wind."