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| Yakutsk seemed a logical starting point for an
expedition to the New World. Thousands of years ago, descendants of
Yakut-born people presumably moved east toward North America in their search
for new hunting grounds. Flying north from Yakutsk into the Sakha Republic,
the expedition plans to follow the Lena River, where wandering reindeer
herders will be fattening their animals in preparation for the long Siberian
winter.
The team will search for reindeer herders in hopes of finding a summer camp along the river's edge. Today, reindeer herds are still tended by nomadic families that roam the taiga forests of Siberia, an area larger than the United States.   
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