This is an interesting article. From what I can tell, Kufri is about 8200 ft. in altitude. Yaks in the United States tend to do well at much lower altitudes but there seems to be a temperature component as well. I have never heard of one dying from too low an altitude. Domestic yaks are [...]
More on Yak Meat and Cholesterol.
Yakkity-yak, cholesterol lack. May be duplicate but I just gotta keep on yakkin’. Yak Meat Cholesterol
Brief Story from NYT about The Himalayan Yak restaurant
It seems that even in NewYork the best place to get yak is Colorado. I think his description of yak meat is accurate. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/28/nyregion/28entry.html
Yak Cheese Helping Tibetan Nomads
Western China’s most abundant resource, the humble yak, are now helping Tibetan nomads.
Farmed in the region for centuries, the yak has been a traditional source of sustenance.
But now, Yaks are also providing luxury fibres and gourmet cheese to some of the world’s leading fashion houses and hotels.
They’re apart of social enterprises – businesses which aim to achieve social, environmental and financial goals.
Check out the link and the video.
Yaks in Berthoud Colorado
BERTHOUD — When someone mentions yaks, thoughts surface of hardy, cold-weather animals helping Sherpas carry gear up Mount Everest — not grazers on land west of Berthoud.
But if you think you spot the long-haired pack animals on the Colorado country, don’t blame your glasses.
Punching Yaks and Sour Butter
They make the women tough round here.
I kid you not, we saw one punch a yak, full in the face.
I guess the yak wasn’t doing what it was told. And it didn’t seem to take too much notice of the punch either.
We got the impression it probably happened on a fairly regular basis.
The female yak-herder just clenched her fist and pow! She gave the animal one, right on its nose.
From our Friends at Bijou Basin Ranch
Eileen and Carl Koop can’t knit a stitch, but these ex-New Yorkers – he’s a former software engineer, and she’s a chemist — know from yarn. Their Bijou Spun skeins are spun from pure yak down, or yak down mixed with wool, bamboo, nylon or alpaca. Each spring, they painstakingly comb their 15 yaks on Bijou Basin ranch in Elbert County, and send the collected fiber off to be washed, processed and spun. We talked yak recently with Carl.
Alaska Zoo welcomes newborn Tibetan yak
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The Alaska Zoo welcomed a newborn Tibetan yak Monday morning.
The baby yak was born around 8 a.m. and is calf number four for his mother, Priscilla.
Most newborn yaks can walk within one hour and run within three hours.
The zoo says everybody, including the other yaks, seems to be very interested in the new guy.
Yak Butter from Textures of Seoul
It was by chance that I tasted yak butter, and it was not because I became so comfortable as to walk up and milk one of the roaming lady yaks myself, closing my winnings into a glass jar and shaking it forever and a day. We had gone horseback riding–this was included in our tour package–and the horse herder who guided us invited us back to his ger for tea. We met his two young boys, whose heads were clean shaven like their daddy’s and who, at a stature half of my own, handled our horses like they were puppies, and his wife served us cow’s milk tea, home baked bread (because that is all there is so far from town) and yak butter.
Yak Cheese Signature Stuffers! Pizza Hut and KFC are coming to Kathmandu
Nepal is one of the last countries in the world without an international fast-food chain, but that is about to change. Varun Beverages, a Nepali Pepsi bottler (owned 70% by The RJ Group, an Indian conglomerate) plans to open a Pizza Hut in Kathmandu this fall. A KFC is expected to follow. (That said, a Nepali Times article from August 2008 reported that Pizza Hut was scheduled to open before the end of last year.)
