Kylie Jenner is basking in the sun in a set of new outdoorsy captures.
The Kardashians reality show star took to Instagram to showcase a few dreamy pics, where she donned a simple semi-sheer white and blue patterned babydoll dress with shirred detailing, dainty bows, and cap sleeves.
In the six-photo gallery upload, the 25-year-old can be seen relishing in nature and taking it all in as she threw her head back, face toward the sun, trees and lush greenery surrounding her.
Jenner combed her hands through her hair in one of the images, closing her eyes for most of the shots. The first four looked to be taken during the daytime while the sun was shining bright, while in the last two snaps, the sun had set as she frolicked into the night toward a home-like structure and several lit-up plants.
‘what a day,’ she captioned the post.
See the dreamy captures right here!
In the comments, fans and followers couldn’t get enough of the peaceful-looking pictures.
“Kylie in her soft girl era ,” one wrote, as another followed up with, “A good thing, a girl who laughs and dreams.”
“Fairy girl energy ,” another note read.
Someone else complimented, “The fits we want to see>>>,” as an additional user questioned if the mom-of-two—who shares daughter Stormi and son Aire with rapper Travis Scott—had “changed her style.”
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Several others, instead, wondered who had snapped the pics, with endless Instagrammers flowing in to mention Timothée Chalamet, the rumored new beau of the Kylie Cosmetics owner.
Per Parade‘s previous report, the two were first romantically linked in January, with confirmation of the dating allegations publicly released last month, though the budding fling was said to be far from “serious.”
“They are keeping things casual at this point,” a source revealed to ET at the time. “It’s not serious, but Kylie is enjoying hanging out with Timothée and seeing where it goes.”
Wander the world with wide-eyed wonder from the ease of your armchair, as Our Planet II, an inspiring new Netflix four-episode docuseries (premieres June 14), unveils answers to mysteries about why and how billions of animals relentlessly migrate — phenomenal travel adventures that have criss-crossed our globe for millennia. Silverback Films and its Emmy Award-winning team behind Planet Earth and Our Planet dazzle once again with gorgeous swoop-and-soar, dive-and-discover, cutting-edge cinematography, which showcases intimate storylines that are pulse-racing, perilous, enlightening, tender and joyful. “Only now are we beginning to understand that all life on Earth depends on the freedomto move,” declares narrator Sir David Attenborough, British author, biologist, broadcaster and natural historian, whose famously gold-standard soothing voice resonates. “Experience the extraordinary journeys that shape our world,” he invites. “For many animals, the instinct to move is overwhelming, despite the dangers. But for every trip that ends in tragedy, countless millions reach their destination.” This is an opportunity to peek at far-flung getaways and creatures that you might otherwise never see. Orchestrating this ambitious project, the program’s crew touched down in 21 countries on seven continents, tallying up 934 filming days, 292 travel days and 85 quarantine days. More than 200 people were involved in creating the show, including 50 camera operators. Special kudos to music composers Jasha Klebe and Thomas Farnon, who have scored stellar high notes for this production; the official soundtrack (released June 14) is available to stream/download on Amazon and other major digital music services. Series Producer Huw Cordey and Executive Producer Keith Scholey share their personal behind-the-scenes insights below.
Four thematic narratives — World on the Move, Following the Sun, The Next Generation and Freedom to Roam — weave this extravaganza together. Each episode covers three months of Earth’s orbit, celebrating key animal movements. At every hour of every day, astonishing masses of animals — gigantic and minuscule; in the air, on the ground, throughout the seas — are guided by instinct, sun position and a compass-like mental-mapping agility that is intrinsic to their essence, replicating the same often arduous routes that their ancestors followed eons ago, seeking havens to eat, drink, breed, give birth and secure safety. Each episode culminates with a cliffhanger.
Massive migrations stretch across the African savanna.
Elegant drone shots record landscapes’ grandeur, as well as ride the skies alongside flocks of birds, so proximate that you can stare at their eyes and almost sense the air currents uplifting their wings. Newly advanced low-light camera technology now makes possible documentation of night activities and the infiltration of darkest rainforest hideaways. Underwater camera submergence spotlights splashy revelations.
Gray whales are formidable long-distance travelers.
For travel lovers, destinations abound. Among the favorites: lions and buffalo in Botswana; humpback whales in the Bering Sea; Laysan albatross and tiger sharks in the Northern Hawaiian Islands; lions, zebras and wildebeests in Tanzania’s Serengeti; rarely seen Tawaki penguins in Fiordland, New Zealand; elusive pumas in Patagonia; nesting turtles on Mexico’s Escobilla Beach; elephant seals in the Falkland Islands; Gentoo penguins in Antarctica; gray whales off the coasts of California and Mexico; orcas (killer whales) hunting in California’s Monterey Bay and, in the Himalayas, Demoiselle cranes that forge the most strenuous migration of any bird species, navigating at heights of almost five miles above sea level over the stupendous Asian mountain range and continuing across the desolate Gobi Desert in Mongolia before wintering in Khichan, India, where villagers kindly welcome them.
The migration of Demoiselle cranes is a stunning feat.
Huw Cordey, Series Producer: “The integrity of every habitat is dependent on the animals moving in and out of it, particularly those in the more Northern and Southern parts of our planet. But, even in jungles along the Equator, you have animals moving very large distances. Movement is absolutely fundamental to every single habitat on Earth.”
Keith Scholey, Executive Producer: “It’s also about the life cycles of animals, and how crazy they sometimes are. The journey of the sockeye salmon is familiar, but I think a lot of people don’t realize that they are actually programmed to breed and die. They spend their life as an ocean fish until that one journey up the river.”
Cameras were so close to this bear eating sockeye salmon that “crunching” sounds can be heard.
Scholey: “The scientists in the field, the ones who live in these remote places, are the people who know those stories. We are totally dependent upon their knowledge and their skills. Once we actually get on location, our experienced producers, directors and cinematographers can jump in and choose which of those stories to follow.”
Cordey: “That’s why I don’t believe in storyboards for wildlife films. It’s not that we don’t think very carefully about the sequences that we’re going to film, but if you go into a shoot with a storyboard, you will miss important things. Animals don’t read scripts. They do unexpected things and you have to be prepared. I try to get my teams to tear up the shot list at the airport. But we can’t make films without the scientists, or at least the scientific information that they provide.”
Scholey: “When that perfect combination of scientists and filmmakers come together, it’s really powerful. Sometimes the scientists even look at our footage and say, ‘Wow, I never knew that. That’s really helpful.’”
Cordey: “Obviously this is an entertainment series, and we do need to get the big iconic animals in there. But while the audience might come to it for polar bears and lions, I always think the things they remember are the smaller stories. Locusts, for example. Christmas Island crablets. When it comes to migrating animals, some of the best stories are birds, because of the distances they travel. We tried to use a balanced approach, and keep in mind that some shoots won’t work out the way we hoped they would. Although I have to say that for a project that was three years in the making, covering many different species across every single continent, there was very little that didn’t work out – which is, in my experience, quite unusual. I think we got a little lucky with some of the stories, but our research was also very good.”
Pumas, also known as mountain lions, in Patagonia.
Cordey: “Nighttime and drone technology have vastly improved in the last five years. Macro technology, too – there are some very, very innovative macro lenses out there. Our bee shoot is a good example of a very special grip. It was designed by the cameraman that shot the bee story, and the whole shoot was probably a year in the planning. We were working with some very experienced beekeepers in Germany, as well as a photographer who has done an amazing book on bees and a scientist who had been studying bees for years. That was a classic example of where we’re dipping into years of experience to try to film the very best sequence we possibly can.”
Cordey: “In the case of the Laysan albatross, we had the rare opportunity to spend almost the entire shoot following the trials and tribulations of a single chick. There it was — this big, chunky chick — and we could just stick with it for six weeks. The shoot itself was very interesting: It took six days to sail there from Hawaii, and I believe we are the first natural history series to film the maiden flight of a Laysan albatross. They’re the longest-lived birds of all, and they take this enormous journey around the planet for years before they breed for the first time. The original idea was to do an underwater shoot with the tiger sharks waiting in the shallows at Laysan, but the first day the tiger sharks were around, the crew got into these inflatable boats — and two sharks attacked them. It was like something out of Jaws. The crew was panicked, and basically made an emergency landing on the sand.”
Filming the Pronghorn migration necessitated multiple shoots through some of the least accessible … [+] lands in the Lower 48 states.
Cordey: “The changing world is very noticeable at the poles, the ends of the world. We were on a boat in the Arctic for a month, and our sightings of polar bears were virtually nil. We got [an] amazing sequence in the last 48 hours — the crew came across that mother and her two cubs and they were immediately on it. The audience is almost seeing it unfold in real time. The polar bear mother climbs on the island, followed by one cub, and the second cub just couldn’t do it. There were hardened Arctic watchers on that boat who were in tears, because they thought it was just so sad…. In the narration, I think David [Attenborough] handles it very well, because he tells you what’s going on. But as is always the way with David, he doesn’t push it. He just says, ‘Look, this is how it is.’ Where we witness unsettling scenes, we think sometimes you have to show the audience for them to really understand. It’s a delicate balance though, across the whole show. I think we have a duty of care.”
Cordey: “Animals move for a better life. As climate change makes things more difficult, the need to move is even greater. Of course, there’s a huge analogy there with humans, and it’s pretty understandable. If you grow up in a place where you can barely grow food to feed your family, you’re going to want to move.”
Scholey: “The underlying environmental story of Our Planet II is that to have a healthy planet, you can’t have borders. You have to let life roam. We as humans like to divide the world. We like to have territory and we like to protect our borders and stop movement. We have to use our intelligence to look at the natural world and compensate for this tendency of ours, if we want to actually allow the natural world to function. Because so many ecosystems on which we ultimately rely for our agricultural health need to have this movement of nature.”
Balancing Tourism and Conservation
A family of wild elephants in China took a staggering journey. Here, they are sleeping.
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Scholey: “Through my career, I’ve seen this really interesting scenario happen with the natural world. The big picture is that habitats are being destroyed, and there is less wildlife in the world than when I started. So that’s the downside. The upside is that there have been more people studying the natural world, and in some places, there has been intense conservation. That has led to two things: more knowledge, but actually more habituation.”
Cordey: “Places that become more protected get tourism, and through tourism, animals become more used to humans. They don’t see us as a threat. But it is the most extraordinary thing to get that close to a large, dangerous predator on foot, like a puma. That’s the most surprising thing. The crew did come across a male puma that was on a kill. It wasn’t one of the habituated animals, and he looked extraordinarily angry. They had to back off really, really quickly. So it’s not the species, it’s individuals.”
When you paddle along the stretch of the Colorado River that winds through Lake Mead National Recreation Area, you watch the water transform from a deep, dark hunter green to a light, emerald shimmer, transparent enough to expose whole trees submerged in the sand.
It is quiet, soothing.
But the real treat comes when you look up. Turkey vultures circle above the rocky Arizona peaks and bighorn sheep make their way along narrow paths carved into the mountains.
It is amazing to witness such vast, untamed wilderness, let alone to be a part of the scene.
Suburbanites often spend a great deal of time and energy fending off nature. Back home, in Chicagoland, we pave, fence, reinforce. But it is because of nature that we even exist.
There’s nothing like a kayak trip at Lake Mead National Recreation Area in Nevada to remind you how important it is to respect and protect nature, columnist Donna Vickroy says. (Donna Vickroy/Naperville Sun)
My husband and I try to remember that. We live on the edge of a wetlands. We love having nature for a neighbor, although safety and sanity demand boundaries. We maintain a fence to keep the coyotes at bay. Their den is just steps from our back yard. They have never encroached on our property and we have never invaded theirs.
We’ve had opossum on the patio, snakes in the landscaping, turtles next to the shed, and even a few deer that have hopped the fence to graze in my garden.
But we’ve also had the privilege of watching a pair of bald eagles soar overhead one January morning. And every summer, we are inundated with dragonflies, bees and butterflies.
We consider ourselves lucky to be so close to the natural world.
Which is why we enjoy kayaking. Sitting on the water, using muscle to power ourselves along, kayaking enables us to be there without being disruptive.
We have kayaked in the Caribbean, in Hawaii and at Maple Lake in the Cook County Forest Preserves. We’re hoping to do it again soon in Alaska. We’re not athletes by any stretch and we pay for the experience in sore muscles, but we like being outdoors and we like a challenge, even at this stage of the game.
So when my extended family started planning a birthday trip to the concrete, neon jungle known as Las Vegas because an aunt who’d never been there was turning 70, we immediately began Googling things to do besides feeding vices. Don’t get me wrong, we love a good party. But we’re not good losers when it comes to the casinos so we don’t even engage.
Among the things you might see if you kayak in the Lake Mead Reservoir in Nevada are bighorn sheep making their way along narrow paths carved into the mountains. (Donna Vickroy/Naperville Sun)
A friend recommended River Dogz kayaking at Lake Mead. Our guide picked us up at one of the hotels, supplied us with equipment and led our small group up the river and back, pointing out wildlife and discussing landscape wonders and woes along the way. It was a nice break from the bright lights and crazy chaos of Vegas.
And it was an important thing to do for people who love nature and are concerned about its future.
As you likely already know, there is an undercurrent of worry in America’s West. It is the same concern that plagues all of the world’s pristine places. Climate change is not only making our planet hotter, our storms stronger, our flooding heavier and our wildfires more out of control, it is eating away at water systems. With less mountain snow to feed the waterways, everything dependent on those systems suffers.
During the drive to the launch, I read a recent New York Times story about how dropping water levels are reducing the Colorado River’s power. The consequences extend well beyond the Grand Canyon, all the way to Lake Mead.
As we paddled, I wondered what this beautiful desert landscape would be without this amazing waterway that enables so much life to exist.
The earth is a gift to all of the flora and fauna that live on it. But to humans, it also is a responsibility, because we are the ones with the means to destroy it.
If we can construct a massive artificial playground right in the middle of the desert, we can surely do more to protect what is natural. But we have to want to.
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We have to want to stop overusing plastic, driving gasoline-powered vehicles more than necessary, eating copious amounts of red meat, spraying insecticides, over-fertilizing and buying fast fashion. And we have to want government policies that promote energy efficiency and protect our air and water. We have to be committed to paying this beautiful planet forward.
Columnist Donna Vickroy shoots a selfie of herself and her husband, Jim, as they kayak in the Lake Mead Reservoir in Nevada, about 24 miles outside of Las Vegas. (Donna Vickroy/Naperville Sun)
Like a lot of people of a certain age, my husband and I have our bucket lists of “places we want to see before we die.” Increasingly, our list is changing to “places we want to see before they die.”
We were in Switzerland last year, on a train ride through the Alps, when someone spotted a glacier. Everyone jumped up to snap a photo and talk turned to concern for threatened and disappearing glaciers. There were people from Norway and Argentina in our car. All of us expressed the same fear over the planet’s demise.
It’s not enough to simply get our middle-aged selves out there to see it before it’s gone. It’s not enough to check things off a list. We need to act. And we need to encourage others to act, as well.
Because even places like Sin City will suffer if we don’t take care of the planet that enables it to exist.
National parks are some of the most awe-inspiring places on
Earth. Whether you’re a nature lover or just looking for a break
from the hustle and bustle of daily life, resting in the lap of
nature is sure to leave you feeling inspired and refreshed.
With its breathtaking views, the national parks in Azerbaijan
and Hungary draw the attention of photographers, who want to
preserve these stunning landscapes and majestic creatures forever,
so that we may experience their beauty and wonder again and
again.
Azerbaijani-Hungarian nature photography showcases some of the
most spectacular sceneries.
Speaking with AZERNEWS, President of the Hungarian
Association of Nature Photographers (naturArt) Péter Fáth, gave a
brief on the association’s activities and shared the details of the
nature photography exhibition organized in Baku.
Q: Can you tell us about the history and main mission of
the Hungarian Nature Photographers’ Association? How has the
organization evolved over time?
A: Hungarian Association of Nature
Photographers (naturArt) has a long history, which spans 31 years.
The association includes 70 members. It is open for everyone, who
can take high-quality pictures and can join us.
Q: How did you come up with the idea to organize a
nature photography exhibition dedicated to national parks of
Azerbaijan and Hungary?
A: This initiative came from the Hungarian
Embassy in Baku, which enjoys strong cooperation with Azerbaijani
partners. The nature is beautiful both in Azerbaijan and Hungary.
You can see it through these photos.
Q: What can you say about any particularly striking or
memorable photos in the exhibition?
A: Well, it is very difficult to choose the
best one. We have been organizing the Nature Photographer of the
Year photo competition for almost 31 year. The exhibition includes
some of the best photo works presented at this competition. If I
had to pick one photo, it would be Csaba Daróczi’s War and Peace.
In 2019, this photo won CEWE Photo Award, known as the world’s
largest photo competition. The photo War and Peace was selected
from over 400,000 photos submitted to the contest.
Q: How do you hope the exhibition will raise awareness
about the importance of protecting national parks and the natural
world?
A: If people see the beauty of nature, then
there will be more people who want to visit national parks. Through
the exhibition, they will be able to see more natural wonders.
Now in its 20th year, the Australian Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year competition, produced by the South Australian Museum, searches for the best photographs taken across Australia, New Zealand, Antarctica and New Guinea regions.
The competition is open to photographers of all ages, nationalities and experience levels to submit their best shots.
This year there were 2,182 high-calibre entries from 550 photographers across 10 countries, which have now been narrowed down to 95 images.
Acting director of the South Australian Museum Justine van Mourik said it wasn’t easy for the judges.
“From cute creatures and captivating celestial skies to unflinching scenes that capture the reality of humanity’s impact on nature, the 2023 shortlist showcases a wide variety of images that illustrate the beauty, fragility and power of our natural world,” she said.
“Building on the competition’s sustained growth and popularity over two decades, this year we introduced the well-received Macro category, with photographers submitting incredible larger-than-life-sized images of nature’s smallest scenes.”
On Thursday, 24 August 2023, the South Australian Museum will announce the overall winner, category winners, runners-up and the Portfolio Prize for 2023.
Until then, here’s a look at the shortlisted images in the Animals in Nature category.
For more information or to see the rest of the shortlisted images, visit the South Australian Museum website.
Shortlisted images in the Animals in Nature category
Nature has become the colorway inspiration for Breanna Stewart’s PUMA Stewie 2.
The unreleased shoe, which follows the “Ruby” colorway, is titled “Earth.” The new version is mostly comprised of shades of caramel and taupe. Meanwhile, the inserts are made up of jade-green and gray designs. To complete the look, highlighter yellow laces make the shoe pop.
Breanna Stewart’s PUMA Stewie 2 “Earth” is set to release on June 23, priced at $125 USD. You can shop for the shoe on Puma’s website, in Puma stores or other authorized retailers.
In the meantime, check out the first look of Breanna Stewart’s PUMA Stewie 2 “Earth” in the photo gallery above.
In other sneaker news, Nike’s Air Jordan 1 gets a “Brown Elephant” makeover.
Here’s something that, if you’ve paid any attention to skiing news over the past few months, you probably already know: Mammoth Mountain, California, received an absurd amount of snow this winter. And to us at Powder, that’s worth celebrating.
But what does absurd winter snowfall actually look like as we move into the warmer months? Well, this. Check out June Lake Brewing’s recent Instagram upload, which shows an aerial photo of Mammoth Mountain taken by Sergio Gonzalez.
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Wild, wild stuff.
Mammoth Mountain currently has a whopping 97 inches of snow, or about 8 feet, at its base area. Over the winter, the resort saw a record 715 inches of snow at the main lodge.
Due to its deep summer snowpack, Mammoth plans to remain open to skiers into July, weather and conditions permitting. Palisades Tahoe, another Californian resort, is also still offering lift-accessed skiing after a record winter.
Is it fair that Mammoth’s still buried in snow while other resorts throughout North America have been closed for months? Not really. But as a skier, you’ve got to accept that Mother Nature’s fickle when it comes to snowfall distribution.
Sometimes you’re the one getting pitted. Other times, you’re watching others get pitted from afar, hoping that your chance to enter the white room comes with the changing seasons.
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CARLSBAD, CA — Patch reader Ray E. Liles captured this photo at sunset at Robert Frazee State Beach.
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DENVER: Denver Nuggets head coach Michael Malone knows the mind can play tricks on players when it comes to crunch time in the NBA Finals, so he’s trying out some mental games himself. His team needs one more win against the Miami Heat to secure their first NBA championship title, after Friday’s victory in South Florida gave them a 3-1 lead in the series. Back on home court Monday, the odds favor the Nuggets who in the last two games have had the measure of Miami in every department of the game. The home crowd will turn up expecting a celebration and the pundits will talk of Denver needing to simply wrap-up the series but Malone knows that kind of mood spells danger. “My biggest concern going into any close-out game is human nature and fighting against that,” he told reporters. “You’re up 3-1. Most teams, when you’re up 3-1, they come up for air. They relax and they just kind of take it for granted that, ‘oh, we’re going to win this,'” he said. “The neat thing for us is that going back to the (Covid) bubble, we’ve been down 3-1. We’ve come back and won. We know anything is possible,” he said. Three years ago the Nuggets pulled off the relatively rare series comeback twice in the same post-season. They overturned the Utah Jazz’s 3-1 lead in the Western Conference first round and then did the same against the Los Angeles Clippers in the semi-finals. So Malone has told his team to put themselves in Miami’s shoes and play like a team who have to win to survive in the series.
“That’s why my message to our team (on Sunday) was our approach has to be we are down 3-1. They are desperate; we have to be more desperate. They are hungry; we have to be hungrier,” he said. “There is no celebrating after game four. We have another game that we have to win, and the close-out game is always the hardest game ever,” he said. There have only been eleven other cases in the NBA of a team winning from a 3-1 deficit and only once has it occurred in the finals — in 2016 when the Cleveland Cavaliers fought back against the Golden State Warriors. At the same time, while demanding that hunger, Malone has been reminding his team that they must stick with the approach that has taken them to their first ever finals. “Stay in the moment and once that jump ball goes up tomorrow night, our players, every possession, every moment of that game can’t be (thinking) ‘We have to win this game.'” “We have to stay true to ourselves, trust what’s gotten us to this point,” he said. “After game four in Miami, everybody was yelling, ‘Just one more win.’ Hey, let’s just win the first quarter tomorrow night. Take it in small bites. And if you do that possession by possession, quarter by quarter, hopefully when 48 minutes are over, you’ve done what you needed to do.” That is a mindset that requires cool heads and luckily for Malone, his star man Luka Jokic is ice-cool. Asked about how he and the team would handle the emotions of such a momentous game, Jokic was utterly on-brand. “I think it’s not going to be emotional,” said the Serb. “It’s going to be a job that we need to do to be done. I think we are ready. I think we are going to be locked in and ready to go. It’s just going to be a game that we need to win.”
BOGOTA: Lost for 40 days in the Colombian Amazon, four Indigenous children survived eating seeds, roots and plants they knew were edible thanks to their upbringing. And it was in part down to the local knowledge of Indigenous adults involved in the search alongside Colombian troops that they were ultimately found alive.
The four siblings, ages 1 to 13, survived a small plane crash on May 1 that took the lives of the pilot, their mother and a third adult. The “children of the bush”, as their grandfather called them, survived eating yucca flour that was aboard the doomed plane, and scavenging from relief parcels dropped by search helicopters. But they also ate seeds, fruits, roots and plants that they identified as edible from their upbringing in the Amazon region, Luis Acosta of the National Indigenous Organization of Colombia (ONIC), said. “We have a particular connection to nature,” Javier Betancourt, another ONIC leader, said. “The world needs this kind of special relation with nature, to favour those like the Indigenous who live in the jungle and take care of it.”
The siblings were recuperating at a military hospital in Bogota, the capital, and were said to be in good health and spirits Saturday, when they were visited by President Gustavo Petro and other officials. Defence minister Ivan Velsquez praised the oldest, Lesly Mucutuy, 13, for ensuring the survival of the group. “We have to recognise not only her courage, but also her leadership,” he said. “It was because of her that the three little siblings were able to survive by her side, with her care, with her knowledge of the jungle.” Lesly’s 9-year-old sister, Soleiny, “talks a lot,” said Astrid Caceres, director of thechild welfare agency. Tien, 5, is asking for books to read, while the 1-year-old “has a tranquility to work with the nurses that you cannot imagine”, he added.
Manuel Ranoque, father of the two youngest children, said on Sunday that the eldest Lesly told him their mother was alive for about four days after the plane crashed. Ranoque said before she died, the mother likely would have told them: “go away”, apparently asking them to leave the wreckage site to survive. He provided no more details.
Over 80 volunteers from Indigenous territories joined around 100 soldiers in what was dubbed “Operation Hope”. While soldiers planned operational details, Indigenous knowledge was used to adapt to the jungle conditions. Army helicopters broadcast recordings of the kids’ grandmother telling them in the Indigenous Huitoto language to stay put in one spot. Two of the kids’ birthdays passed during their time in the jungle. Tien turned 5 and the youngest, Cristin, turned 1. “The celebration of the birthdays is overdue,” Cacere said.
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