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Lowly owners exploit rare yaks

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 [...]

Interview – Milking a Yak

An interesting video demonstrating the milking of a yak. Seems a bit of a roadside attraction but yurt is cool!

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.

Wounded Yaks

The symbolism of the wounded yak seems obvious, the artist is raising important questions about the fate of Tibet in the People’s Republic of China. Tibetan artists in Tibet have also been using the yak as a symbol of Tibet. Here are artworks by prominent Tibetan contemporary artists. High Peaks Pure Earth readers are invited to be art critics and to give their own interpretations:

“Rest of Everest” podcast “Yak-Tastic”

This is a terrific video from “The Rest of Everest” Podcast. It is fairly long but it rolls some beautiful Yak Footage!

Yak Babies in Tibet – Video

Video of Yak Babies from www.ResponsibleAdventure.com