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Technology has transformed the challenge of reporting on expeditions in remote corners. Traditionally, Nicolas Reynard would have greeted the Korubo with a 35-mm camera and shot roll after roll of film. Then would come a two-day trudge through the jungle, a nine-hour boat ride to the nearest airport, and half a day of connecting flights back to National Geographic headquarters in
Washington, D.C.

Not this time. Reynard captured the Korubo digitally, storing images on a metal item known as a personal computer memory card (PC card). He then loaded the images onto his laptop and zapped them via satellite to North America. The result: a fast, firsthand glimpse of an expedition that made history.

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