SHANGRALA'S
WHERE'S
RUDOLPH?
While families across the country took down their festive Christmas
decorations, the migration of reindeer from one grazing area to another
took place. The herd made its laborious way across the frozen plains to
cross the Norwegian-Finnish border. A sign Christmas is really over!
Each year, hundreds of Sami herd thousands of their reindeer in flocks across
Scandinavia's northernmost parts, a journey which takes two months, covering
hundreds of miles.
Around 3,500 reindeer and dozens of Sami make the annual trip across the snow,
dashing from Karasjok, the Sami capital of Norway, over the snowy plains of
northern Scandinavia, and across the Finnish border.
Clouds turn pink against the ice-blue sky as temperatures go way below zero
above the Arctic circle in Scandinavia.
The Sami are the indigenous people of Scandinavia and live in the Arctic parts of
Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia, in an area recognised as Sapmi.
Although traditionally associated with reindeer herding, only ten per cent of
the Sami remain in the reindeer business, with some 2,800 living as full-time
semi-nomadic herders.
Photographer Jan Helmer Olsen used a drone to film the migration of a massive herd of reindeer across
Norway to Finland in temperatures reaching minus 15 degrees.
Mr Olsen said: 'My footage felt very special as nobody ever manages to see how
the herd moves as one body from the air. It's watching a huge flock of birds
in flight."
'Filming the event was a spur of the moment thing as the reindeer stay well away from urban areas and it's a
trek out to find them. Using a drone was always just a hobby to me, but I get a lot
of satisfaction out of the footage as it is so rare for somebody to film from the
sky above.'
While We Didn't See Rudolph Here,
We Know He'll Be Back!
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