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National Geographic : 1982 Feb
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DUSTED BY SUMMER SNOW, tetheredyaks and their tenders wait amid our tents and suppliesfor the breakup of camp and the next move on the trek around Anyemaqen. As in Tibet, the yak constitutes a mainstay of the Golog economy, providing transportfor goods and humans, meat, butter, lard, hair for rope and woven fabrics, hidefor boots and clothes, as well as dung for heatingand cooking. Naturally animals of such value are maintainedin large herds, as I saw on the high plateaus, where huge areas of pasture are kept as trim as golf greens by yaks and sheep a major reasonfor the decline of the wildlife that would feed on the same grasses. After breakingcamp, we walked out of snow, into rain, and,finally, a glorious glimpse of summer, with wild flowers strewn across a field under the eaves of a jagged peak (left). 261 BOTHBY GALEN ROWELL
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