A young yak herder, Wangchuk, captured a footage of snow leopards with camera traps provided by the Bhutan Foundation and biologist Tshewang Wangchuk, also a National Geographic Waitt grantee. The yak ...

The Yak Herder’s Son, a 20-minute documentary by Tenzin Phuntsho, a Bhutanese living in Canberra, was one of the films selected for screening at the festival and it was the first film to be screened ...

[Photo by Palden Nyima/chinadaily.com.cn] Thousands of Tibetan herders in Nagchu city benefit from selling their yak milk to a local dairy company, which provides them with a stable income source.

Graphics by Agnes Chang. Audio read by Hannah Beech and produced by Sarah Diamond.

Now, youth are interested in taking up this age-old profession of Yak rearing. The film looks at the problems and challenges of local Yak herders and the role of science and technology in bringing ...

So there's a genuine topographical possibility for a creature to exist largely unseen. Yak herder Lakpa Dolma with her husband in the mountains of Phungi Thenga in Nepal. Until you've walked for ...

For 57-year-old herder Morup Namgyal, like thousands of other seminomadic goat and yak herders from the Changpa pastoralist ...

A Tibetan herder weaves using yak hair to make yak hair tents in Nagchu city of the Xizang autonomous region. [Photo by Palden Nyima/chinadaily.com.cn] She said that pottery making was passed down ...

Without Johann Gottfried Herder (1744–1803), we simply would not understand Shakespeare in the way we do. In fact, much literature and art besides Shakespeare would neither look the same nor be the ...

Community health workers like Shurentsetseg are the backbone of the health system in Mongolia, one of the most sparsely ...

As a long-time sufferer of mild depression and anxiety, I find travel bittersweet. Lost luggage, delayed transport, ...