18)Lingshi Valley, near Tibetan Border, West Bhutan, Jomolhari Trek, 09/23/2004
Heading towards the 15,000 foot pass, up the Lingshi Valley, 3 days walk from a road, we passed the Yak herder(Brokpa) encampment, whence this young girl offered me a haunting look and we exchanged no words. These are ‘Brokpa’, in the sense of being semi-nomadic herders of yak. Surviving via the by-products of the animal, yak-cheese, milk, butter and high-altitude farming.