Alexanders Rhubarb flowers are protected from wind, weather and radiation, all intense in high altitude.
Nomad woman with typical 108 hair braids.
A nomad family we met in Trakaniri.
A mani pile, consisting of rocks that are engraved with Mantras like On Mani Padma hung.
Pilgrims burning incense, here shukpa, juniper bows at Trakaniri in Lithang.
A nearly completed Mandala made of sand
Yak cows being molken. Yak milk has 5 to 7% fat, very rich!
Dorje, a mobile matsutake dealer we met in Nyachuka
An orchid found in 4200m
Lilium bakerianum var. delavayi growing in 2800m in Nyachuka / Yajiang
Lilium bakerianum var. delavayi.
Veggies and Mushrooms for sale in Nyachuka.
A box full of Himalayan Caesar, Amanita hemibapha.
A proud matsutake dealer stuck with us on the road after another land slide blocked the road.
Velma mixing the tsampa - roasted ground barley flower - into the salty butter tea.
A solar collector to heat water.
Invited for tea at Tashis home after the mushroom hunt.
A farm house in Nyachuka. These houses started to get painted in the late 1990 when Matsutake money enabled farmers to do so. Before that house were unpainted.
Our guide Dorje (left) and Chögyal, one of our 4 drivers
Orgyen Rinchen with one of many matsutake he picked that morning.