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Our 4 drivers and two guides, all Khampas,

DSC_3659 s.JPG Orgyen Rinchen with one of many matsutake he picked that morning.ThumbnailsOur guide Dorje (left) and Chögyal, one of our 4 driversOrgyen Rinchen with one of many matsutake he picked that morning.ThumbnailsOur guide Dorje (left) and Chögyal, one of our 4 driversOrgyen Rinchen with one of many matsutake he picked that morning.ThumbnailsOur guide Dorje (left) and Chögyal, one of our 4 driversOrgyen Rinchen with one of many matsutake he picked that morning.ThumbnailsOur guide Dorje (left) and Chögyal, one of our 4 drivers

Khampas are people from the Kham region in Eastern Tibet, these days divided and ruled under Tibet AR's Qamdo/Chamdo Prefecture, Sichuan's Ganzi/Kandze & Ngawa/Aba TAP, Yunnan's Deqing/Dechen TAP and parts of Qinghai's Yushu/Jyekundo TAP = Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture.