Maasai Men, Kenya

Photograph by David McLain , National Geographic

Maasai men perform a traditional jump dance. The Maasai, nomadic pastoralists of East Africa, divide each year into two: a year of plenty during the rainy season, and a year of hunger.

(From the upcoming National Geographic book Visions of Earth)

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