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Staring in disbelief, nomadic Babenzélé Pygmies in the Congo forest eye photographer Nick Nichols’s assistant, Neeld Messler, a hundred feet (31 meters) above them, as he scales a tree to rig a rope.

Text adapted from “Ndoki—Last Place on Earth” (National Geographic magazine, July 1995).

Photograph by Michael “Nick” Nichols






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