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  • With a grimace on her pained face, a female Officer Cadet at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst splashes through a water obstacle during  an endurance race. Recruits are running a 5 mile steeplechase around the Academy grounds to assess individual stamina and accumulate team points. Sandhurst is an institution which has bred staff officers since 1800. Today it trains future officers for the demands of leadership and military understanding of military understanding. Students are tested for their command instincts, intellect, strength of character and physical endurance often under great psychological pressure - the demands asked of them in modern warfare. Failure in this test might not necessarily mean dismissal though perseverance or refusal to give up won't harm their prospects.
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  • An Officer Cadet at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst is loaded into the back of a British Army Land Rover ambulance to join the downfacing trainers of a collapsed colleague, after retiring  from an endurance race. Recruits run a 5 mile steeplechase around the Academy grounds to assess individual stamina and accumulate team points. Sandhurst is an institution which has bred staff officers since 1800. Today it trains future officers for the demands of leadership and military understanding of military understanding,. Students are tested for their command instincts, intellect, strength of character and physical endurance often under great psychological pressure - the demands asked of them in modern warfare. Failure in this test might not necessarily mean dismissal though perserverence or refusal to give up won't harm their prospects.
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  • On a stretch of water between East Lock and Hartlake Bridge, middle-aged Canoeists help raise funds for those suffering from PTSD and other mental health issues, for the military veterans charity, Combat Stress, by paddling an endurance distance on the River Medway to Tonbridge, near Golden Green in Kent, on 2nd May 2021, in Golden Green, England.
    medway_canoeists04-02-05-2021.jpg
  • Three soldier recruits wearing shorts and black army boots, one with blood trickling down from the knees to the shins, stand at ease, lined up for inspection after the rigorous steeple-chase endurance race, an individual test with candidates running against the clock over a 1.8 mile cross country course. The course features a number of 'water obstacles' and having completed the cross country element, candidates must negotiate and 'Assault Course' to complete the test. This forms part of  the 14-week long Pegasus (P) Company selection programme. Recruits wanting to join the British Army's Parachute Regiment held regularly at Catterick army barracks, Yorkshire, need to pass this and other tests before earning the right to wear the esteemed maroon beret. A plastic bottle of water stands between recruit number three (3) and six (6).
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  • On a stretch of water between East Lock and Hartlake Bridge, middle-aged Canoeists help raise funds for those suffering from PTSD and other mental health issues, for the military veterans charity, Combat Stress, by paddling an endurance distance on the River Medway to Tonbridge, near Golden Green in Kent, on 2nd May 2021, in Golden Green, England.
    medway_canoeists02-02-05-2021.jpg
  • A local man carries electric cabling uphill on the Annapurna Sanctuary trekking route in central Nepal. With few roads that can transport supplies and raw materials up to remote foothill communities, the only way is often to carry what one needs on the back or by yak. The paths are even but often very steep in places so stamina and endurance are needed to get even modest weights uphill. Nepalis up here often want newer technology and basic electricity to power lights and showers although solar power is another answer.
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  • A young Nepali boy is straining in his last sit-ups during a recruitment test for the Gurkha Regiment, part of a tough endurance series to find physically perfect specimens for British army infantry training. He has to perform 25 straight-kneed sit-ups at a 45° slant both within 60 seconds to pass. 60,000 boys aged between 17-22 (or 25 for those educated enough to become clerks or communications specialists) report to designated recruiting stations in the hills each November, most living from altitudes ranging from 4,000-12,000 feet. After initial selection, 7,000 are accepted for further tests from which 700 are sent down here to Pokhara in the shadow of the Himalayas. Only 160 of the best boys succeed in the journey to the UK. The Gurkhas have been supplying youth for the British army since the Indian Mutiny of 1857.
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  • A young Nepali boy is undergoing a recruitment test for the Gurkha Regiment called the Doko race, part of a tough endurance series to find physically perfect specimens for British army infantry training. He has to carry 30kg of river stones in a traditional Himalayan doko (basket) for 3km up foothills within 37 minutes to pass.  60,000 boys aged between 17-22 (or 25 for those educated enough to become clerks or communications specialists) report to designated recruiting stations in the hills each November, most living from altitudes ranging from 4,000-12,000 feet. After initial selection, 7,000 are accepted for further tests from which 700 are sent down here to Pokhara in the shadow of the Himalayas. Only 160 of the best boys succeed in the journey to the UK. The Gurkhas have been supplying youth for the British army since the Indian Mutiny of 1857.
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  • A young Nepali boy is undergoes a recruitment test of pull-ups for the Gurkha Regiment, part of a tough endurance series to find physically perfect specimens for British army infantry training, on 16th January 1997, in Pokhara, Nepal. 60,000 boys aged between 17-22 or 25 for those educated enough to become clerks or communications specialists report to designated recruiting stations in the hills each November, most living from altitudes ranging from 4,000-12,000 feet. After initial selection, 7,000 are accepted for further tests from which 700 are sent down here to Pokhara in the shadow of the Himalayas. Only 160 of the best boys succeed in the journey to the UK. Nepal has been supplying youths for the British army since the Indian Mutiny of 1857.
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  • A young Nepali boy is undergoes a recruitment test for the Gurkha Regiment called the Doko race, part of a tough endurance series to find physically perfect specimens for British army infantry training, on 16th January 1997, in Pokhara, Nepal. Carrying 30kg of river stones in a traditional Himalayan doko basket for 3km up foothills within 37 minutes to pass.  60,000 boys aged between 17-22 or 25 for those educated enough to become clerks or communications specialists report to designated recruiting stations in the hills each November, most living from altitudes ranging from 4,000-12,000 feet. After initial selection, 7,000 are accepted for further tests from which 700 are sent down here to Pokhara in the shadow of the Himalayas. Only 160 of the best boys succeed in the journey to the UK. Nepal has been supplying youths for the British army since the Indian Mutiny of 1857.
    gurkha_selection01-16-01-1997.jpg
  • A young Nepali boy is measured for lung capacity during a recruitment test for the Gurkha Regiment - part of a tough endurance series to find physically perfect specimens for British army infantry training, on 16th January 1997, in Pokhara, Nepal. 60,000 boys aged between 17-22 or 25 for those educated enough to become clerks or communications specialists report to designated recruiting stations in the hills each November, most living from altitudes ranging from 4,000-12,000 feet. After initial selection, 7,000 are accepted for further tests from which 700 are sent down here to Pokhara in the shadow of the Himalayas. Only 160 of the best boys succeed in the journey to the UK. Nepal has been supplying youths for the British army since the Indian Mutiny of 1857.
    gurkha_selection03-16-01-1997.jpg
  • A young Nepali boy is undergoing a recruitment test for the Gurkha Regiment called the Doko race, part of a tough endurance series to find physically perfect specimens for British army infantry training. He has to carry 30kg of river stones in a traditional Himalayan doko (basket) for 3km up foothills within 37 minutes to pass.  60,000 boys aged between 17-22 (or 25 for those educated enough to become clerks or communications specialists) report to designated recruiting stations in the hills each November, most living from altitudes ranging from 4,000-12,000 feet. After initial selection, 7,000 are accepted for further tests from which 700 are sent down here to Pokhara in the shadow of the Himalayas. Only 160 of the best boys succeed in the journey to the UK. Nepal has been supplying youths for the British army since the Indian Mutiny of 1857.
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  • Teenage Nepali boys await the start of a recruitment test for the Gurkha Regiment called the Doko race, part of a tough endurance series to find physically perfect specimens for British army infantry training. They have to carry 30kg of river stones in a traditional Himalayan doko (basket) for 3km up foothills within 37 minutes to pass. 60,000 boys aged between 17-22 (or 25 for those educated enough to become clerks or communications specialists) report to designated recruiting stations in the hills each November, most living from altitudes ranging from 4,000-12,000 feet. After initial selection, 7,000 are accepted for further tests from which 700 are sent down here to Pokhara in the shadow of the Himalayas. Only 160 of the best boys succeed in the journey to the UK. Nepal has been supplying youths for the British army since the Indian Mutiny of 1857.
    doko_gurkhas-16-01-1997_1.jpg
  • Comedian and actor David Walliams, completes his epic 8 day, 140 mile swim of the River Thames for Comic Relief. Cheered on by thousands, he raised just over 1m Pounds for developing world and UK causes. One half of the popular TV show Little Britain, Walliams battled stomach illness, agressive swans, the cold and a a mammoth endurance from the English river's source in rural Gloucestershire to the city of Westminster, opposite Parliament.
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  • Comedian and actor David Walliams, completes his epic 8 day, 140 mile swim of the River Thames for Comic Relief. Cheered on by thousands, he raised just over 1m Pounds for developing world and UK causes. One half of the popular TV show Little Britain, Walliams battled stomach illness, agressive swans, the cold and a a mammoth endurance from the English river's source in rural Gloucestershire to the city of Westminster, opposite Parliament.
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  • Comedian and actor David Walliams, completes his epic 8 day, 140 mile swim of the River Thames for Comic Relief. Cheered on by thousands, he raised just over 1m Pounds for developing world and UK causes. One half of the popular TV show Little Britain, Walliams battled stomach illness, agressive swans, the cold and a a mammoth endurance from the English river's source in rural Gloucestershire to the city of Westminster, opposite Parliament.
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  • With bare legs, a runner wears shorts and passes snow-covered roofs of south London Edwardian homes and residential high-rise towers under construction, on 8th February 2021, in London, England.
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  • A male swimmer stands up after doing the Crawl across this scene of fresh water bathing in the Serpentine Lake in London's Hyde Park. This bathing area is where the normally busy Serpentine Swimming Club has the use of this Royal Lake known as Lansbury's Lido. It is now normally open only in the summer, but one traditional event occurs each year on New Year's Day, when the ice is broken and brave bathers dive into the cold waters of the lake. The Serpentine will be used for the swimming leg of the triathlon at the London 2012 Olympics. The pool was formed in 1730, its name from a snakelike, curve. Queen Caroline wife of George II ordered the damming of the River Westbourne and other natural ponds in Hyde Park.
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  • Crews from around the UK and Ireland compete in the annual Great River race on the river Thames, on 23rd September 1995, in London England.
    river_race-23-09-1995_1.jpg
  • A Parachute Regiment recruit is in mid-flight and leaps across a wide space between scaffolding and a rope net during the 14-week long Pegasus (P) Company selection programme. Seen in silhouette, the man is in full stretch, half-way between the gantry he leapt from and the rope net that he is about to meet. It is an image that describes a mid-point, a half-way position between safety and uncertainty. Known as the Trainasium, it is an 'Aerial Confidence Course' which is unique to P Company. In order to assess his suitability for military parachuting, the Trainasium tests a candiates ability to overcome fear and carry out simple activities and instructions at a height above ground level. Recruits wanting to join the British Army's Parachute Regiment held regularly at Catterick army barracks, Yorkshire, need to pass this and other tests before earning the right to wear the esteemed maroon beret.
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  • USA's Gwen Jorgensen (right) in the cycling phase of the womens' Triathlon held in Hyde Park during the London 2012 Olympics. The race was eventually won in a photo finish by the Swiss Nicola Spirig, Lisa Norden (Silver) and Australia's Erin Densham (Bronze)
    olympic_triathlon03-04-08-2012.jpg
  • With his face covered and a well-earned medal around his neck, a male London Marathon runner has collapsed on grass after completing a gruelling 26 miles 385 yards through the capital's streets, before being met by family. With the few possessions around him - bottles of sponsored Lucozade isotonic drinks and clothing bags - he lies motionless with other competitors and spectators around him
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  • A lone rider nears the top of the Jaufenpass, the highest point at 2,094 metres on the road between Meran-merano and Sterzing-Vipiteno in South Tyrol, Italy. Struggling up to the pass's summit, the rider gives a thumbs up as he passes the lettering for a bus stop at the side of the road. South Tyrol has a surface area of 7,400sq km, roughly the same as the Black Forest and is the largest province in Italy with 60% of this is 1,600 metres above sea level. The Jaufenpass (Italian: Passo di Monte Giovo) (alt 2094m.) is a high mountain pass in the Alps in the South Tyrol in Italy. It connects Meran and Sterzing on the road to the Brenner Pass. It is the northernmost pass in the Alps that is completely in Italy. The pass road is very winding, with many switchbacks.
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  • A male swimmer performs the Crawl across this scene of frewsh water bathing in the Serpentine Lake in London's Hyde Park. As the man twists his head to gulp in air, breathing a lungful of oxygen, he passes the lettering stencilled on the poolside warning of shallow water. This bathing area is where the normally busy Serpentine Swimming Club has the use of this Royal Lake known as Lansbury's Lido. It is now normally open only in the summer, but one traditional event occurs each year on New Year's Day, when the ice is broken and brave bathers dive into the cold waters of the lake. The Serpentine will be used for the swimming leg of the triathlon at the London 2012 Olympics. The pool was formed in 1730, its name from a snakelike, curve. Queen Caroline wife of George II ordered the damming of the River Westbourne and other natural ponds in Hyde Park.
    deep_swimmer-21-06-1994_1.jpg
  • As the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson suffers from Coronavirus and remains in intensive care in hospital - with a record 938 UK daily deaths recorded, a total of 7,097, Londoners keep to government guidelines for daily exercise and practicing social distancing in Ruskin Park, a green space in Herne Hill, Lambeth, on 8th April 2020, in south London, England.
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  • The day after UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson imposed unprecedented restrictions of movement for millions of Britons who were told to stay at home unless their key jobs or journeys were essential. Told to take a single exercise session per day, self-employed Russell who has been displaced from the indoor gym at Brockwell Lido, jumps with his skipping rope at a clear space for those wishing to work out on a soft surface, where south Londoners use their local green space for a daily activity in Brockwell Park in Herne Hill SE24, on 24th March 2020.
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  • In the foreground we see the strong forearm of a British army soldier whose blood group O-Negative has been tattooed in large letters beneath an image of a Japanese Geisha girl. He also wears a watch with aq green strap matching his working army fatigues uniform. Behind him are two part-time territorial army conscripts who are sitting on their  army-issued rucksack Bergens awaiting further orders to serve on active duty from Sandhurst military academy to the Balkans during Operation Resolute, the  National Support Element to support NATO action. The dominating figure in the foreground stands upright though we don't see his face. His two conscripts sit on the ground looking dejected or perhaps worried about their forthcoming duties. They are still in civillian clothing, jeans and t-shirts but will soon change into uniform.
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  • A jogger runs past an office foyer entrance featuring dots and circles (and shadows) on exterior windows in the City of London. The man is about to head south over London Bridge and passes these offices whose window theme is a series of dots, currently popular in the City of London - the capital's oldest financial district.
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  • A dog owner and her two pet pugs with coloured leads who refuse to go any further while crossing a small bridge over a narrow canal in Dorsoduro, a district in Venice, Italy. Standing near the top of the small bridge that spans a minor canal in the western sestriere, we see the lady in a yellow dress holding red and blue leads that correspondingly hold the reverse dogs' collar colours. they refuse to move, stubbornly laying on the cool pavement during a midsummer heatwave.
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  • A tired elderly visitor to the capital yawns next to the Information kiosk at the London Eye, on 20th July 2017, on the Southbank, London, England.
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  • An instructor with the Royal Gurkha Rifles points a recruit towards an objective while on tactical training manoeuvres on heathland above Farnborough, on 5th August 1996, in Farnborough, England. Nepali-born boys belong to an elite Regiment of the British army. Every year 60,000 boys attend recruiting sessions in villages and towns in the Himalayan Kingdom but only 150 are selected each year to serve on active duty across the world. They fly to the UK for basic soldier training where they learn the skills required for infantry, transport, communications or clerical duties. Their reputation as a fierce but intensely loyal fighting force and many Victoria Crosses were won for bravery during World War 2. Here they are seen cradling modern SA-80 rifles while dressed in camouflaged helmets with oak leaves.
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  • A male jogger exercises in a wide landscape of late winter light of south London's Ruskin Park. Jogging downhill along a path between silhouetted trees, the man is seen against the strong, low sun in the west. Surrounding the open space are the Victorian homes of Londoners who look out onto this protected location, owned by Lambeth and Southwark councils. It is early December and the winter has yet to grip the capital - the first snows being a short time away - and the mild weather attracts this male to a quiet moment during the day.
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  • Crews from around the UK and Ireland compete in the annual Great River race on the river Thames, on 23rd September 1995, in London England.
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  • In pouring rain, United States Air Force pilots stand like canmouflaged statues in the undergrowth near Fairchild Air Force Base, Spokane, Washington. They are listening to a USAF survival instructor giving them advice about another challenge they are about to face, a few hundred yards ahead in the woods, so they listen intently in the saturatedconditions. They stand motionless, green figures in a green maze of foliage, wearing waterproof cagoules covering their backpacks which are shiny as the rain trickles down. They look like hunchbacks of the forest. The week-long survival course is held at the military facilities around Fairchild where the Air Force conducts a survival, escape and evasion course which combat pilots need to pass before rejoining their units for real-time warfare. This part of the lecture is held in the forest and forms part of an extensive physical and psychological assessment for young aviators on active service. In the future any one of them may be shot down behind enemy lines and need to use the lessons passed-on here to help facilitate their rescue by US forces. One pilot who passed this course in 1991, himself a Spokane-born boy, was F-16 pilot Scott O'Grady. He put his skills learned here to the test while evading Serb forces before being airlifted to safety and a hero's Presidential welcome.
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  • We see the head and shoulders of a man in military uniform who stands motionless beside the American flag.  he is at a graduation ceremony for United States Air Force pilots who have just passed a week-long survival courseheld at the Fairchild Air Force Base, Spokane, Washington. Its highy-trained personel conducts a survival, escape and evasion course which combat pilots and air crew need to pass before rejoining their units for real-time warfare. Conducted, in hangars and the surrounding forests, it forms part of an extensive physical and psychological assessment of young aviators on active service. In the future any one of them may be shot down behind enemy lines and need to use the lessons passed-on here to help facilitate their rescue by US forces. One pilot who passed this course in 1991, himself a Spokane-born boy, was F-16 pilot Scott O'Grady. He put his skills learned here to the test while evading Serb forces before being airlifted to safety and a hero's Presidential welcome.
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  • A boy soldier collapses on the ground suffering fatigue and dehydration on the rigorous 10-mile march conducted as a squad, over undulatiing terrain with each candidate carrying a bergen (back pack) weighing 35 pounds.(plus water) and a weapon. Three senior trainers help revive the lad with smelling salts who fell under the weight of his backpack and weapon carried on a hot day and without drinking enough fluids. The march must be completed in 1 hour and 50 minutes. This forms part of the 14-week long Pegasus (P) Company selection programme. Recruits wanting to join the British Army's Parachute Regiment held regularly at Catterick army barracks, Yorkshire need to pass this and other tests before earning the right to wear the esteemed maroon beret.
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  • A lone walker passes by a partially-collapsed broken sign announcing the summit of Rannoch Moor, Scotland UK, 1,350 feet above sea level. He is hunched against a driving wind at this altitude and the country he is walking over is bleak and boggy, a wetland high up in the Scottish Highlands. Thick tufts of grass and moss lie about in this tough terrain, held in great affection for long-distance hikers. Rannoch Moor is a large expanse of around 50 square miles (130 km²) of boggy moorland to the west of Loch Rannoch, in Perth and Kinross and Lochaber, Highland, partly northern Argyll and Bute, Scotland. Rannoch Moor is designated a National Heritage site.
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  • A few miles from the finish line, this long-distance runner has stopped in agony to lean against the walls beneath Tower Bridge during th London Marathon, England. Pushing against the solid wall and stretching his cramped leg muscles, he grimaces in pain as other runners speed past on their way completing their personal race. Pushed to his limits, this man needs to continue a few more Kilometres to claim his medal and to claim victory. But he still has to overcome the pain of an overworked body. When glycogen runs low, the body must then burn stored fat for energy, which does not burn as readily. When this happens, the runner will experience dramatic fatigue. This is called "hitting the wall".
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  • A long-distance runner prepares for the London Marathon before the race begins, whilst warming-up in Greenwich Park, London England. Seen in close-up detail, we see his hands and fingers massaging Vaseline jelly into his thighs and groin area to help avoid chafing during the annual 26-mile race through London's streets. He is wearing bright, garish running shorts decorated wth the British Union Jack flag, a sure sign of his patriotic attitude. Other runners are in the background, also preparing clothing that will be taken from the start to the finish line in Westminster.
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  • Grinning from ear to ear, young volunteers throw themselves over a fallen tree during a strenuous activity on a Raleigh International expedition in the rainforests of Brunei, Borneo, one of the remotest and most dangerous habitats on the planet. It has been a life-changing experience for them and their new-found friends from all over the world who will have had to raise several thousands of sponsored Pounds for the privilege of spending two months away from a dull, comfortable life at home, rather than building community projects like bridges or schools. Raleigh International is a charity that provides adventurous and challenging expeditions for people from all backgrounds, nationalities and ages, especially young people. Over the last 23 years, 30,000 people have been involved in more than 250 expeditions to over 40 countries.
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  • The tower containing Big Ben amid the Gothic architecture of Britain's Houses of Parliament and jogger on the Embankment. Passing-by at speed with a slight blur, the male sportsman runs by the racks of colourful postcards showing London scenes, their prices written on makeshift marker on a white board. Beyond is Westminster Bridge that stretches of the River Thames, towards the British Houses of Parliament, with Big Ben's clock tower rising high above. It is a fine sunny day and a woman is writing more prices for tourist mementoes of another board, leaning on the river wall. The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which also comprises the Sovereign and the House of Lords (the upper house). Both Commons and Lords meet in the Palace of Westminster.
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  • A British army Parachute Regiment recruit is suffering from exhaustion on a rigorous assault course conducted over rough terrain and into water. He emerges dripping from the water jump and back into the forest accompanied by instructors who shout encouragement and abuse to get the candidate to a successful stage of this test. This forms part of the 14-week long Pegasus (P) Company selection programme that recruits wanting to join the British Army's elite Parachute Regiment, held regularly at Catterick army barracks in Yorkshire, need to pass (with other tests) before earning the right to wear the esteemed maroon beret.
    paras_course-30-07-1996.jpg
  • British army Parachute Regiment recruits are suffering from fatigue on a rigorous forced march conducted as a squad, over undulating terrain with each candidate carrying a Bergen (backpack) weighing 35 pounds (plus water) and a weapon. The lads are slowly buckling under the weight of backpack Bergens and weapons carried on a hot day and without drinking enough fluids. The 10-mile march must be completed in 1 hour and 50 minutes and it forms part of the 14-week long Pegasus (P) Company selection programme that recruits wanting to join the British Army's elite Parachute Regiment, held regularly at Catterick army barracks in Yorkshire, need to pass (with other tests) before earning the right to wear the esteemed maroon beret.
    paras_p_company-30-07-1996.jpg
  • An elderly gentleman has just emerged from a swim in the cold waters off Paignton, the seaside town in Devon, south-west England. Still to towel himself down, he looks chilled to the bone but stands talking to friends out of view. The man wears dark trunks (costume) and has a large belly but otherwise looks fit and healthy, a true picture of health for a man of his age, after swimming in these seas for many years and enjoying the endorphins that are stimulated after wild, outdoor swims.
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  • A boy soldier is about to collapse on the ground suffering fatigue and dehydration on the rigorous long march conducted as a squad, over undulating terrain with each candidate carrying a Bergen (backpack) weighing 35 pounds (plus water) and a weapon. The lad is buckling under the weight of his backpack and weapon carried on a hot day and without drinking enough fluids. The 10-mile march must be completed in 1 hour and 50 minutes and it forms part of the 14-week long Pegasus (P) Company selection programme that recruits wanting to join the British Army's elite Parachute Regiment, held regularly at Catterick army barracks in Yorkshire, need to pass (with other tests) before earning the right to wear the esteemed maroon beret.
    p_company01-30-07-1996.jpg
  • A boy soldier has collapsed on the ground suffering from fatigue and dehydration on a rigorous march conducted as a squad of soldier recruits, over undulating terrain with each candidate carrying a bergen (back pack) weighing 35 pounds (plus water) and a weapon. Two senior trainers haul the buy up who fell under the weight of his backpack and weapon carried on a hot day and without drinking enough fluids. The 10-mile march must be completed in 1 hour and 50 minutes and it forms part of the 14-week long Pegasus (P) Company selection programme that recruits wanting to join the British Army's elite Parachute Regiment, held regularly at Catterick army barracks in Yorkshire, need to pass (with other tests) before earning the right to wear the esteemed maroon beret.
    p_company02-30-07-1996.jpg
  • While being shouted and screamed at by a tattooed instructor, a squad of 8 soldier recruits experience the extreme exhaustion and stress during an army team event in which they haul a log (a telegraph pole) weighing 60 kg over 1.9 miles (3.1 km) of undulating terrain. Candidates wear only a numbered helmet and webbing but all their energies must go into performing as a team and completing the course in the time allotted. This is supposed to be one of the hardest events of what the 14-week long Pegasus (P) Company selection programme. Recruits wanting to join the British Army's elite Parachute Regiment held regularly at Catterick army barracks, Yorkshire need to pass this and other tests before earning the right to wear the esteemed maroon beret.
    p_company03-30-07-1996.jpg
  • Canada's Cathy Tremblay (#56, left) and Aileen Morrison (#28, right) in the cycling phase of the womens' Triathlon held in Hyde Park during the London 2012 Olympics. The race was eventually won in a photo finish by the Swiss Nicola Spirig, Lisa Norden (Silver) and Australia's Erin Densham (Bronze)
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  • Team GB's Vicky Holland at the front of a group in the cycling phase of the womens' Triathlon held in Hyde Park during the London 2012 Olympics. The race was eventually won in a photo finish by the Swiss Nicola Spirig, Lisa Norden (Silver) and Australia's Erin Densham (Bronze)
    olympic_triathlon02-04-08-2012.jpg
  • Partially-sighted skiing paralympian from the Sochi Olympics, Kelly Gallagher trains with her trainer in the gym at the Sports Institute, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, UK. Helped by her trainer, she practices pull-ups to help build thigh strength while starting a new training regime for the forthcoming winter season. Kelly Marie Gallagher, MBE is a Northern Irish skier and the first athlete from Northern Ireland to compete in the Winter Paralympics. Gallagher won Britain's first ever Winter Paralympic gold medal during Sochi 2014.
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  • Partially-sighted skiing paralympian from the Sochi Olympics, Kelly Gallagher trains in the gym at the Sports Institute, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, UK. Starting to regain fitness after a summer break, she finds the going hard as she starts a new training regime for the forthcoming winter season. Kelly Marie Gallagher, MBE is a Northern Irish skier and the first athlete from Northern Ireland to compete in the Winter Paralympics. Gallagher won Britain's first ever Winter Paralympic gold medal during Sochi 2014.
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  • Partially-sighted skiing paralympian from the Sochi Olympics, Kelly Gallagher trains with her trainer in the gym at the Sports Institute, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, UK. Consulting with her trainer she talks about a new training regime for the forthcoming winter season. <br />
Kelly Marie Gallagher, MBE is a Northern Irish skier and the first athlete from Northern Ireland to compete in the Winter Paralympics. Gallagher won Britain's first ever Winter Paralympic gold medal during Sochi 2014.
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  • Detail of an illustration of two joggers wearing Karrimor sportswear, running in the window of Lillywhites, a retailer on Piccadilly Circus in central London. A man and woman run across the width of the window with a reflection of city architecture in the background while their shadows repeat sprinting arms and legs. Karrimor was founded and based in Lancashire, England, following World War II but as of 2013, the Karrimor brand remains and is licensed and used for marketing and product branding purposes. Sports Direct continue to sell Karrimor branded products, which are as of 2013 largely made in China rather than the UK.
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  • Detail of an illustration of two joggers wearing Karrimor sportswear, running in the window of Lillywhites, a retailer on Piccadilly Circus in central London. A man and woman run across the width of the window with a reflection of city architecture in the background while their shadows repeat sprinting arms and legs. Karrimor was founded and based in Lancashire, England, following World War II but as of 2013, the Karrimor brand remains and is licensed and used for marketing and product branding purposes. Sports Direct continue to sell Karrimor branded products, which are as of 2013 largely made in China rather than the UK.
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  • A local man carries tourism industry supplies downhill on the Annapurna Sanctuary trekking route in central Nepal. With the heavy load on his back, supported in the traditional Himalayan manner of a head strap that steadies the pack, the man makes his steady way down the foothill using a long pole for extra balance. Communities here partly-depend on the agriculture of rice-growing but also on the passing tourist trade. Western trekkers from all over the world walk through these tiny communities on their way up the series of climbing trails of the Annapurna Conservation Sanctuary circuit, a sometimes rigorous walk from the low hills of Pokhara to the higher altitudes of Annapurna, the (26,000 feet (8,000 metre) peak. To be greeted by so much choice is the most rewarding experience and the offer of hot showers is about the best reward for so much exertion.
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  • Walkers pass near the ruins of Milecastle 39 on Roman Hadrian's Wall, once the northern frontier of Rome's empire from Barbarian tribes. Hadrian's Wall (Latin: Vallum Aelium) was a stone and timber fortification built by the Roman Empire across the width of what is now northern England. Begun in AD 122, during the rule of emperor Hadrian, it was built as a military fortification though gates through the wall served as customs posts to allow trade and levy taxation. The 4.5m high Wall was 80 Roman miles (73.5 miles, 117km) long and so important was it to secure its length that up to 10% of the Roman army total force were stationed here. Tough walkers generally take 7 days to trek its coast-to-coast length.
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  • Walkers pass near the ruins of Milecastle 39 on Roman Hadrian's Wall, once the northern frontier of Rome's empire from Barbarian tribes. Hadrian's Wall (Latin: Vallum Aelium) was a stone and timber fortification built by the Roman Empire across the width of what is now northern England. Begun in AD 122, during the rule of emperor Hadrian, it was built as a military fortification though gates through the wall served as customs posts to allow trade and levy taxation. The 4.5m high Wall was 80 Roman miles (73.5 miles, 117km) long and so important was it to secure its length that up to 10% of the Roman army total force were stationed here. Tough walkers generally take 7 days to trek its coast-to-coast length.
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  • A wlker climbs steep path on Roman Emperor Hadrian's Wall, once the northern frontier of Rome's empire from Barbarian tribes. Hadrian's Wall (Latin: Vallum Aelium) was a stone and timber fortification built by the Roman Empire across the width of what is now northern England. Begun in AD 122, during the rule of emperor Hadrian, it was built as a military fortification though gates through the wall served as customs posts to allow trade and levy taxation. The 4.5m high Wall was 80 Roman miles (73.5 miles, 117km) long and so important was it to secure its length that up to 10% of the Roman army total force were stationed here. Tough walkers generally take 7 days to trek its coast-to-coast length.
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  • Wearing a plastic Viking horn helmet, one of three friends make their way along a high-altitude deserted road amid the spectacular wilderness of Glencoe, a valley surrounded by high peaks 3,000 feet (1,000m) high mountains. The landscape is magnificent but unforgiving and walkers mainly stay on well-marked paths or, as these lads are doing - walking along the A82 road that snakes through this Scottish Glen. They admit to having trekked from Glasgow on pagan fertility Wassail rite, once performed in medieval times. This region of Britain, lake many others, was populated by Viking raiders who later settled locally and raised families whose descendents now inhabit the UK. English is full of old Norse words as are place names.
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  • Half-way across the Gulf of Mexico, between Miami and Cancun in Mexico, a rather overweight passenger on Carnival Cruise's Fun Ship Ecstasy struggles to push his obese body around the ship’s top Sun Deck Olympic jogging track. In evening tropical sunlight, the man runs while sweating and panting , punishing himself while listening to a portable Walkman music player (before the era of digital MP3s). Carnival's ships are known for their Las Vegas decor and entertainment, calling its vessels Fun Ships. The MS Ecstasy is a Fantasy class cruise ship featuring two pools, whirlpools, a variety of dining options, nightclubs, a casino, and duty-free shopping, catering to budget travel.
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  • As the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson suffers from Coronavirus and remains in intensive care in hospital - with a record 938 UK daily deaths recorded, a total of 7,097, Londoners keep to government guidelines for daily exercise and practicing social distancing in Ruskin Park, a green space in Herne Hill, Lambeth, on 8th April 2020, in south London, England.
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  • As the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson suffers from Coronavirus and remains in intensive care in hospital - with a record 938 UK daily deaths recorded, a total of 7,097, Londoners keep to government guidelines for daily exercise and practicing social distancing in Ruskin Park, a green space in Herne Hill, Lambeth, on 8th April 2020, in south London, England.
    coronavirus_RuskinPark-16-08-04-2020.jpg
  • As the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson suffers from Coronavirus and remains in intensive care in hospital - with a record 938 UK daily deaths recorded, a total of 7,097, Londoners keep to government guidelines for daily exercise and practicing social distancing in Ruskin Park, a green space in Herne Hill, Lambeth, on 8th April 2020, in south London, England.
    coronavirus_RuskinPark-17-08-04-2020.jpg
  • As the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson suffers from Coronavirus and remains in intensive care in hospital - with a record 938 UK daily deaths recorded, a total of 7,097, Londoners keep to government guidelines for daily exercise and practicing social distancing in Ruskin Park, a green space in Herne Hill, Lambeth, on 8th April 2020, in south London, England.
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  • As the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson suffers from Coronavirus and remains in intensive care in hospital - with a record 938 UK daily deaths recorded, a total of 7,097, Londoners keep to government guidelines for daily exercise and practicing social distancing in Ruskin Park, a green space in Herne Hill, Lambeth, on 8th April 2020, in south London, England.
    coronavirus_RuskinPark-08-08-04-2020.jpg
  • The day after UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson imposed unprecedented restrictions of movement for millions of Britons who were told to stay at home unless their key jobs or journeys were essential. Told to take a single exercise session per day, self-employed Russell who has been displaced from the indoor gym at Brockwell Lido, jumps with his skipping rope at a clear space for those wishing to work out on a soft surface, where south Londoners use their local green space for a daily activity in Brockwell Park in Herne Hill SE24, on 24th March 2020.
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  • As the second week of the Coronavirus lockdown continues and a week before Easter when Prime Minister Boris Johnson reminds Britons to stay locally and not to travel to beauty spots, the UK death toll rises to 2,921, with 1m cases of Covid-19 worldwide in 181 countries, running Londoners enjoy sunshine and spring temperatures in Brockwell Park in Herne Hill, 3rd April 2020, in south London, England.
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  • An exhausted jogger has collapsed and lies on his back on the gravel outside the ICA in London's The Mall.
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  • A jogger runs past an office foyer entrance featuring dots and circles on exterior windows in the City of London. The man is about to head south over London Bridge and passes these offices whose window theme is a series of dots, currently popular in the City of London - the capital's oldest financial district.
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  • Lunchtime jogger runs past hoarding with London Bridge in the background. Making his way along the Thames Path that takes pedestrians along the capital's river, the man athletically runs along the line of this hoarding that continues beneath London's famous bridge on which we see a few pedestrians and a red bus travelling north into the City, the financial district founded by the Romans in the 1st Century who first forded the Thames very close to the site of the present bridge.
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  • A mid-afternoon jogger runs over the junction of Bishopsgate as a London double-decker bus advertising Sky Sports drives south. With a theme of sporting endeavour and personal fitness alongside the corporate message of this broadcaster, advertising its brand on London's public transport. Striding across the box junction on this ancient thoroughfare in the City of London, the capital's financial heart, the man heads south while listening to mp3 music on a personal device.
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  • An early morning regular swimmer swims solitary lengths at Brockwell (Brixton) Lido before crowds arrive. After a 6.30am summer opening time, this Londoner likes to escape the crowds and unwind during a warm spell of weather and before another day of city heat. She swims many lengths of breast stroke (American crawl) in the chilly waters of this unheated pool. The Lido is a magnet, an oasis, for city dwellers to escape, if only for an hour from the pressures of fast urban life. Many enjoy the benefits of outdoor bathing and the friendship of meeting old friends. In the centre, a mother helps her young daughter up from the cool morning water before another hot day in August. Brockwell Lido is a large, open-air swimming pool in Brockwell Park, Herne Hill, London. It opened in July 1937, closed in 1990 and after a local campaign was re-opened in 1994.
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  • Wearing a large green helmet with the number 26 painted on the front, a worried-looking black soldier recruit gazes into the distance in front of a white army  instructor at the large Garrison at Catterick, England. Here, the Parachute Regiment (The Paras) - hold part of their famous basic training programme called Pegasus (P) Company. The most notorious selection procedure in the British Army. After initial recruitment, each student is sent to either pass or fail a set of 9 events from which a total score of 90 points is possible. 58% or more passes, less fails. Events like the 18 mile Forced March followed by a further 5 miles can earn 10 points though this will inevitably prove too much for many young man, desperate to pass P Company and earn his prestigious beret (Like the Foreign Legion).
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  • Four members of the Royal Gurkha Rifles are on tactical manoeuvres on heathland above Farnborough airfield, England. These Nepali-born boys belong to an elite Regiment of the British army. Every year 60,000 boys attend recruiting sessions in villages and towns in the Himalayan Kingdom but only 150 are selected each year to serve on active duty across the world. They fly to the UK for basic soldier training where they learn the skills required for infantry, transport, communications or clerical duties. Their reputation as a fierce but intensely loyal fighting force and many Victoria Crosses were won for bravery during World War 2. Here they are seen cradling modern SA-80 rifles while dressed in camouflaged helmets with oak leaves. The nearest to the camera points his weapon past the viewer with a yellow blank cover attached.
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  • Men Cuban male on a bucking bronco bull coming out of the pen, performing at a Rodeo in the arena. Cuban locals attend a Rodeo in Ciego de Avila province, Cuba.
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  • Men Cuban males performing at a Rodeo in the arena with a cow in a headloack and caught with a rope. Cuban locals attend a Rodeo in Ciego de Avila province, Cuba.
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  • Men Cuban males performing at a Rodeo in the arena with a cow in a headloack and caught with a rope. Cuban locals attend a Rodeo in Ciego de Avila province, Cuba.
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  • Graffiti in Shoreditch asks us 'Let's adore and endure each other' as a couple walk past. This area is famed for it's creative, beautiful and poetic graffiti street art. Two disused tube train carriages sit atop what was one the old railway bridge.
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  • London bus passengers endure the misery of another morning commute into the city. As they sit looking miserable, squashed in the bus, its windows steamed up they are unaware of The Chronicles of Narnia movie poster that shows itself to the outsider. In the panoramic banner often used by the film industry for forthcoming movie productions, we see the main characters from Narnia in heroic, romantic and epic story roles. But the reality of another commute into London is also a heroic experience when wintry conditions often stop the flow of public transport and its infrastructure. The Chronicles of Narnia is a series of seven fantasy novels for children written by C. S. Lewis. It is considered a classic of children's literature and is the author's best known work, having sold over 100 million copies in 47 languages.
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  • On a busy Friday night in the Accident and Emergency section of the royal London Hospital, Whitechapel, East London, a city businessman, still in his pin-stripe suit, with his mobile phone and wearing slippers, sits rigid, grimacing in pain on with severe back pain a trolley (gurney) while two medical staff using a clipboard assess his treatment. The Royal London is one of London's oldest hospitals, having been founded in 1740 and is a major teaching hospital in Whitechapel, East London. It is part of the Barts and the London NHS Trust, alongside St Bartholomew's Hospital ("Barts"), which is a couple of miles away.
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  • Nepali boys pose for a group photo under Kathmandu's Boudhanath Stupa after recruitment into the British Gurkhas. Trying for places in the Gurkha Regiment is part of a tough endurance series to find physically perfect specimens for British army infantry training. They will need to perform 25 straight-kneed sit-ups at a 45° slant both within 60 seconds to pass. 60,000 boys aged between 17-22 (or 25 for those educated enough to become clerks or communications specialists) report to designated recruiting stations in the hills each November, most living from altitudes ranging from 4,000-12,000 feet. After initial selection, 7,000 are accepted for further tests from which 700 are sent down here to Pokhara. Only 160 of the best boys succeed in the journey to the UK. The Gurkhas have been supplying youth for the British army since the Indian Mutiny of 1857.
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  • Young Nepali boys in army red march though a Pokhara street after being recruited for the Gurkha Regiment.  Trying for places in the Gurkha Regiment is part of a tough endurance series to find physically perfect specimens for British army infantry training. They will need to perform 25 straight-kneed sit-ups at a 45° slant both within 60 seconds to pass. 60,000 boys aged between 17-22 (or 25 for those educated enough to become clerks or communications specialists) report to designated recruiting stations in the hills each November, most living from altitudes ranging from 4,000-12,000 feet. After initial selection, 7,000 are accepted for further tests from which 700 are sent down here to Pokhara. Only 160 of the best boys succeed in the journey to the UK. The Gurkhas have been supplying youth for the British army since the Indian Mutiny of 1857.
    gurkhas05-16-01-1997_1.jpg
  • Young Nepali boys adjust their spacing during a camp parade after recruitment to the British Gurkha Regiment. Trying for places in the Gurkha Regiment is part of a tough endurance series to find physically perfect specimens for British army infantry training. They will need to perform 25 straight-kneed sit-ups at a 45° slant both within 60 seconds to pass. 60,000 boys aged between 17-22 (or 25 for those educated enough to become clerks or communications specialists) report to designated recruiting stations in the hills each November, most living from altitudes ranging from 4,000-12,000 feet. After initial selection, 7,000 are accepted for further tests from which 700 are sent down here to Pokhara. Only 160 of the best boys succeed in the journey to the UK. The Gurkhas have been supplying youth for the British army since the Indian Mutiny of 1857.
    gurkhas07-16-01-1997_1.jpg
  • Young Nepali boys look at family photos during Gurkha recruiting selection in barracks of Pokhara camp. Trying for places in the Gurkha Regiment is part of a tough endurance series to find physically perfect specimens for British army infantry training. They will need to perform 25 straight-kneed sit-ups at a 45° slant both within 60 seconds to pass. 60,000 boys aged between 17-22 (or 25 for those educated enough to become clerks or communications specialists) report to designated recruiting stations in the hills each November, most living from altitudes ranging from 4,000-12,000 feet. After initial selection, 7,000 are accepted for further tests from which 700 are sent down here to Pokhara. Only 160 of the best boys succeed in the journey to the UK. The Gurkhas have been supplying youth for the British army since the Indian Mutiny of 1857.
    gurkhas04-16-01-1997_1.jpg
  • Wearing a peaked cap and small rucksack, a young adventurer, clambers over rocks in the ancient forest of Monbachtal Bach in Germany's Black Forest. Stretching to climb the rock, the lad of 10 uses his hand and walking stick to balance as he puts a boot higher to gain a sure footing. There is ample covering of moss and lichen on the primeval landscape making it hazardous to conquer but the boy stumbles over the terrain and continues his walk through this beautiful wilderness. The boy is alone in the picture though accompanied by his family but he seems to mange on his own, capable of finding his own limits of endurance and confidence. Geologically, the Black Forest consists of a cover of sandstone on top of a core of gneiss. During the last glacial period, the Würm glaciation, the Black Forest was covered by glaciers.
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  • From a low angle, we see the crowds of racing upper classes in the members' enclosure, gathering to watch a winning horse pass-by at the Ascot races. Top-hatted gentlemen accompanied by ladies in pink and girls in white lace dresses mingle in the area reserved for the privileged at this famous race event. The back quarters of the winning horse with its veins and muscle shine through its paper-thin skin reveal an athletic animal bred for speed and endurance.
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  • Young Nepali boys stride past poor elderly man in Kathmandu street after recruitment into the British Gurkhas. Trying for places in the Gurkha Regiment is part of a tough endurance series to find physically perfect specimens for British army infantry training. They will need to perform 25 straight-kneed sit-ups at a 45° slant both within 60 seconds to pass. 60,000 boys aged between 17-22 (or 25 for those educated enough to become clerks or communications specialists) report to designated recruiting stations in the hills each November, most living from altitudes ranging from 4,000-12,000 feet. After initial selection, 7,000 are accepted for further tests from which 700 are sent down here to Pokhara. Only 160 of the best boys succeed in the journey to the UK. The Gurkhas have been supplying youth for the British army since the Indian Mutiny of 1857.
    gurkhas09-16-01-1997_1.jpg
  • Young Nepali boys admire a young girl on an army walk along Himalayan path during recruitment to the Gurkha Regiment. Trying for places in the Gurkha Regiment is part of tough endurance series to find physically perfect specimens for British army infantry training. They will need to perform 25 straight-kneed sit-ups at a 45° slant both within 60 seconds to pass. 60,000 boys aged between 17-22 (or 25 for those educated enough to become clerks or communications specialists) report to designated recruiting stations in the hills each November, most living from altitudes ranging from 4,000-12,000 feet. After initial selection, 7,000 are accepted for further tests from which 700 are sent down here to Pokhara. Only 160 of the best boys succeed in the journey to the UK. The Gurkhas have been supplying youth for the British army since the Indian Mutiny of 1857.
    gurkhas06-16-01-1997_1.jpg
  • Young Nepali boys watch how to perform sit-ups in Himalayas, hoping to be recruited for the Gurkha Regiment. This is part of a tough endurance series to find physically perfect specimens for British army infantry training. They will need to perform 25 straight-kneed sit-ups at a 45° slant both within 60 seconds to pass. 60,000 boys aged between 17-22 (or 25 for those educated enough to become clerks or communications specialists) report to designated recruiting stations in the hills each November, most living from altitudes ranging from 4,000-12,000 feet. After initial selection, 7,000 are accepted for further tests from which 700 are sent down here to Pokhara in the shadow of the Himalayas. Only 160 of the best boys succeed in the journey to the UK. The Gurkhas have been supplying youth for the British army since the Indian Mutiny of 1857.
    gurkhas02-16-01-1997_1.jpg
  • Young Nepali boys attend a line-up in Himalayas, hoping to be recruited for the Gurkha Regiment. This is part of a tough endurance series to find physically perfect specimens for British army infantry training. For example, they will need to perform 25 straight-kneed sit-ups at a 45° slant both within 60 seconds to pass. 60,000 boys aged between 17-22 (or 25 for those educated enough to become clerks or communications specialists) report to designated recruiting stations in the hills each November, most living from altitudes ranging from 4,000-12,000 feet. After initial selection, 7,000 are accepted for further tests from which 700 are sent down here to Pokhara in the shadow of the Himalayas. Only 160 of the best boys succeed in the journey to the UK. The Gurkhas have been supplying youth for the British army since the Indian Mutiny of 1857.
    gurkhas01-16-01-1997_1.jpg
  • Young Nepali boys do a leadership test in Pokhara  camp, hoping to be recruited for the Gurkha Regiment. This is part of a tough endurance series to find physically perfect specimens for British army infantry training. For example, they will need to perform 25 straight-kneed sit-ups at a 45° slant both within 60 seconds to pass. 60,000 boys aged between 17-22 (or 25 for those educated enough to become clerks or communications specialists) report to designated recruiting stations in the hills each November, most living from altitudes ranging from 4,000-12,000 feet. After initial selection, 7,000 are accepted for further tests from which 700 are sent down here to Pokhara in the shadow of the Himalayas. Only 160 of the best boys succeed in the journey to the UK. The Gurkhas have been supplying youth for the British army since the Indian Mutiny of 1857.
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  • Wearing a peaked cap and small rucksack, a young adventurer, scales a giant boulder in the ancient forest of Monbachtal Bach in Germany's Black Forest. Stretching to climb the rock, the lad of 10 uses his hand and walking stick to balance as he puts a boot higher to gain a sure footing. There is ample covering of moss and lichen on the primeval landscape making it hazardous to conquer but the boy has the stamina to get to the top and continue his walk through this beautiful wilderness. The boy is alone in the picture though accompanied by his family but he seems to mange on his own, capable of finding his own limits of endurance and confidence. Geologically, the Black Forest consists of a cover of sandstone on top of a core of gneiss. During the last glacial period, the Würm glaciation, the Black Forest was covered by glaciers.
    germany_holiday37-02082008_1.jpg
  • British Army soldiers gather outside the hospitality chalet of aerospace manufacturer Thales. Standing in mid-day sun, the troops are dressed in ISAF desert uniform, alongside a company-built Watchkkeper an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). Watchkeeper WK450 is a £800 million contract awarded in July 2005 to Thales to provide the British Army with  or all weather, Intelligence, Surveillance, Target Acquisition and Reconnaissance (ISTAR) use. It has a weight of 450 kg and a payload capacity of 150 kg, and will have a typical endurance of 17 hours.
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  • Turkish Aerospace TAL Anka drone, exhibited at the Farnborough Air Show. The TAI Anka is a family of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) developed by Turkish Aerospace Industries for the requirements of its Turkish Armed Forces. Basic Anka-A is classified as Medium Altitude Long Endurance (MALE) Unmanned Aerial Vehicle. Envisioned in the early 2000s for tactical surveillance and reconnaissance missions, the Anka has made progress towards the integration of Synthetic Aperture Radar and combat systems. Anka has made Turkey the 3rd country in the world that can design and produce MALE UAV's after USA and Israel. The name of the drone is inspired from a phoenix-like mythological creature Angha.
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  • Vehicles emblazoned with target motifs pass the Bank of England in the City of London on 18th March 2022 in London, United Kingdom. The Bank of England raised the UKs interest rate, from 0.5% to 0.75% on 17th March as the rate of inflation continues to rise while the country endures the cost of living crisis. The City of London is a city, ceremonial county and local government district that contains the primary central business district CBD of London. The City of London is widely referred to simply as the City is also colloquially known as the Square Mile.
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  • Vehicles emblazoned with target motifs pass the Bank of England in the City of London on 18th March 2022 in London, United Kingdom. The Bank of England raised the UKs interest rate, from 0.5% to 0.75% on 17th March as the rate of inflation continues to rise while the country endures the cost of living crisis. The City of London is a city, ceremonial county and local government district that contains the primary central business district CBD of London. The City of London is widely referred to simply as the City is also colloquially known as the Square Mile.
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  • Vehicles emblazoned with target motifs pass the Bank of England in the City of London on 18th March 2022 in London, United Kingdom. The Bank of England raised the UKs interest rate, from 0.5% to 0.75% on 17th March as the rate of inflation continues to rise while the country endures the cost of living crisis. The City of London is a city, ceremonial county and local government district that contains the primary central business district CBD of London. The City of London is widely referred to simply as the City is also colloquially known as the Square Mile.
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  • Vehicles emblazoned with target motifs pass the Bank of England in the City of London on 18th March 2022 in London, United Kingdom. The Bank of England raised the UKs interest rate, from 0.5% to 0.75% on 17th March as the rate of inflation continues to rise while the country endures the cost of living crisis. The City of London is a city, ceremonial county and local government district that contains the primary central business district CBD of London. The City of London is widely referred to simply as the City is also colloquially known as the Square Mile.
    20220318_city of london targets_001.jpg
  • Vehicles emblazoned with target motifs pass the Bank of England in the City of London on 18th March 2022 in London, United Kingdom. The Bank of England raised the UKs interest rate, from 0.5% to 0.75% on 17th March as the rate of inflation continues to rise while the country endures the cost of living crisis. The City of London is a city, ceremonial county and local government district that contains the primary central business district CBD of London. The City of London is widely referred to simply as the City is also colloquially known as the Square Mile.
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  • Bus passes the Bank of England with the slogan need it now on an advertisement for the company Gopuff in the City of London on 18th March 2022 in London, United Kingdom. The City of London is a city, ceremonial county and local government district that contains the primary central business district CBD of London. The City of London is widely referred to simply as the City is also colloquially known as the Square Mile. The Bank of England raised the UKs interest rate, from 0.5% to 0.75% as the rate of inflation rises, with projections that it will continue to rise while the country endures the cost of living crisis.
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