Herding the sheep and yaks
Top: the morning sheep-sorting process; Bottom: yaks brought in for the
lunchtime milking
Milking
The women get up at 3.00am for the first milking. They also milk in the
evenings, and - at peak grass-growing season - lunchtimes (when these photos
were taken).
Making Butter and Yoghurt
Edie helping with the butter separating (L); making yoghurt (R)
Yak Dung - picking, spreading
Picking the dung - a deft overhead flick into the basket (L); drying yak pats -
Method 1
Smearing yak dung thinly onto the grass for quick drying - Method 2 (L); a quick
handwash before preparing breakfast (R) The dried dung is essential as fuel for
cooking fires.
Miscellaneous scenes
Left: a yak being led down to the spring for water (a 1-hour round trip); Right:
our ponies have just been saddled up and are waiting patiently for their loads.
Early morning. The photo cannot capture the noise - thousands of bleating sheep
surrounding the tent.
LEAF-go-VSO
