Children of Panasia Island love the rocks of a cave as a natural diving tower / © Photo: Georg Berg

Meeting in Papua New Guinea

The island nation of Papua New Guinea is considered the country with the greatest cultural diversity in the world. About Polynesian deep-sea sailors and traces of cannibalism

View from Basecamp on Peak Lenin, Kyrgyzstan / © Photo: Georg Berg

Unforgettable on Peak Lenin

In 2019, alpinists from Ukraine and Russia only want to conquer Peak Lenin in the Kyrgyz Pamir Mountains. Another encounter has also made a lasting impression

Hands as stencils for white paint that has been sprayed on by mouth and Reckitt's Blue, a detergent additive made from ultramarine and baking soda that used to be added to laundry detergents in Australia / © Photo: Georg Berg

Indigenous People Day

There are about 5,000 different cultures that are threatened by the destruction of their habitat, climate change and the disregard for their rights

Long Tom Dreaming - Guide Thommo (name changed) explains the 20,000-year-old Aboriginal art of his ancestors / © Photo: Georg Berg

Aboriginal history(s)

The Australian Aborigines’ concept of ownership is different from ours. They belong to the land and not vice versa. Their lives are shaped by it.

Outback Safari with Sab Lord in the Northern Territory, Australia / © Photo: Georg Berg

Sab Lord, the outback legend

Sab Lord grew up in the far north of Australia in close contact with Aborigines. Today he shows small tour groups the remote places of worship

Aerial view of the Moa River in Sierra Leone / © Photo: Georg Berg

Mysterious Sierra Leone

The Mende people live deep in the jungle. Only members of their secret societies can understand the ritual dance of the forest devils

Lengeboom / © Photo: Georg Berg

The village trutz

On February 27, 2016, the former villagers of Borschemich gathered to cut down the old village linden tree. The last landmark of the village, whose inhabitants had to make way for opencast lignite mining against their will, thus disappears

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