A Changpa Mother in her Yak Wool Tent, Ladakh
The road that comes from Nyoma towards Pangongtso is just a track of compacted sand and pebbles after you leave Loma and remain on the left side of the riverine valley. If you turn right, you may land yourself in Tibet under Chinese occupation and a whole host of difficulties.
You can make out the road or to be fungible, the track, from the tyre marks of the earlier vehicles. Upto Chushul it is still a discernible track with maybe one vehicle passing by in a day.
What you do most times is follow the telephone lines that have been erected by the Army to have a rough idea of where you are heading.
Changpa "reebos" make occasional appearances short of Rezangla and it was in one of them that this photograph was shot.
A Changpa mother suckles her young born child while a slightly older girl eats a mango that came all the way from Delhi.
Everything here is yak wool. Tents made of this material are hard to be seen these days. The thermal efficiency of the wool is amazing. Even the cold wind that comes through small tears and rants seem to warm up by the time it enters the living area. The black background is the yak wool tent and underneath the feet of the mother and children is a yak wool rug made by the lady herself.
Nikon D300
18.0-70.0 mm f/3.5-4.5
ƒ/6.3
18.0 mm
1/20
250
Flash (off, did not fire)
_DSC7424 nef
A Changpa Mother in her Yak Wool Tent, Ladakh
The road that comes from Nyoma towards Pangongtso is just a track of compacted sand and pebbles after you leave Loma and remain on the left side of the riverine valley. If you turn right, you may land yourself in Tibet under Chinese occupation and a whole host of difficulties.
You can make out the road or to be fungible, the track, from the tyre marks of the earlier vehicles. Upto Chushul it is still a discernible track with maybe one vehicle passing by in a day.
What you do most times is follow the telephone lines that have been erected by the Army to have a rough idea of where you are heading.
Changpa "reebos" make occasional appearances short of Rezangla and it was in one of them that this photograph was shot.
A Changpa mother suckles her young born child while a slightly older girl eats a mango that came all the way from Delhi.
Everything here is yak wool. Tents made of this material are hard to be seen these days. The thermal efficiency of the wool is amazing. Even the cold wind that comes through small tears and rants seem to warm up by the time it enters the living area. The black background is the yak wool tent and underneath the feet of the mother and children is a yak wool rug made by the lady herself.
Nikon D300
18.0-70.0 mm f/3.5-4.5
ƒ/6.3
18.0 mm
1/20
250
Flash (off, did not fire)
_DSC7424 nef