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As impervious to the bitter cold as her ice-encrusted yaks, a woman in Qinghai, China milks a dri, a female yak. With a hundred yaks, this family is considered prosperous in a culture that counts wealth by the size of a man's herd.
Author: Michael Yamashita
©Michael Yamashita
Photo size: 15.1 Mpixels (43.1 MB uncompressed) - 4745x3174 pixels (15.8x10.6 in / 40.2x26.9 cm at 300 ppi)
Photo keywords: cattle, China, cold, hair, Himalaya, horns, Marco Polo, Mekong River, plateau, snow, Tibet, woman
Published in: Marco Polo Parts I - III, The Mekong