One of the great things about coming across old photographs is that they can immediately take you back to that place and moment. The two photographs below were taken in Tibet in 2005. We were travelling around in a small convoy of Land Cruisers and had camped for the night in a valley at about 15000 feet after visiting the expansive Namtso the largest lake in Tibet. One of the photographs taken that day was of men in traditional dress herding yaks by motorbike. Some years later this photo was used as art work for a CD cover by the Tibetan singer Namgyal Lhamo, along with a photo by Galen Rowell (a coincidence that I posted about him 2 days ago?)
The morning these photographs were taken was very cold and dark with constant drizzle. The drivers had parked the vehicles off the road and struggled to get them back up the steep and wet hillside. Just down the track from our campsite was a tent with the mother, child and grandmother sheltering from the weather. Her husband was somewhere up the mounting tendering to the yaks. She offered us hospitality as nomads do the world over regardless of how little they might have. The inside of the tent was as cold as the outside as there was little firewood or dry yak dung available. A family living a harsh and unforgiving life.
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The photographs were taken on a Nikon D70.
