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AJ EPISODES
Episode 1: Siberia, Winter 1992



	START FROM THE BEGINNING: Episode 1 Siberia, Winter 1992 Episode 2 Kauai, Hawaii, Winter 1984 Episode 3 Osaka, Japan, Summer 2005 Episode 4 Monte Verde, Costa Rica, Summer 1989 Episode 5 Aspen, Colorado, Winter 1983 Episode 6 Mali, Fall 2001 Episode 7 Sydney, Australia, Spring 1991 Episode 8 Brisbane, Australia, Summer 2006 Episode 9 Antarctica, 1999 Episode 10 Belen, Nicaragua, Spring 1990 Episode 11 On the Mediterranean, Spring 2000 Episode 12 Buenos Aires, Argentina, Summer 2003 Episode 13 LAX, Summer 2003 Episode 14 Lagos, Nigeria, Spring 2000

Theyd just seen a frozen waterfall and were coming back down the mountain when Renaldo got lost. The wind was pushing snow into their eyes and turning the clumps of hair sticking out from under their caps into icicles. Growing up in Nicaragua and, more recently, Los Angeles, Renaldo had never seen snow before, let alone tundra, and in no time David and Kolya had gotten ahead of him.

At the fork, Renaldo did his best to remember which of the two paths theyd come up, but fast-falling snow had already obscured their footprints.

Not wanting to fall further behind, he arbitrarily chose the path on the right and stumbled through some snow-packed pine trees. Suddenly, pushing branches out of the way, he found himself above a cliff.

The drop was only about twenty feet, but the streamthe same one rushing behind the silver shield of ice upstreamgurgled over the rocks in dangerous-looking waves at the bottom. So beautiful, he thought.

He could see about two hundred yards, maybe more, into a wide open arena where flurries of soft snow jerked around in a wild whipping cascade, gentle and enraged, and where the stream was winding and burbling. Above him the mountains disappeared into the clouds as if they were evaporating into them. The trees looked like scales on some enormous, sedentary dragon.

I have to remember this, he thought, because this is why I came. I have to remember every detail.

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