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yucka – beautiful

Illustrations

All photographs from the author’s collection. Chapter illustrations by the author.

The family tent

Tsedup mother, Annay Labko

Tsedup father, Amnye Karko

View of Machu from the Wild Yak range

Ama-lo-lun, Azjung (the Sky Man) and Rhanjer’s son, Tinlee

Tsedup’s brother, Cumchok Jamtso seated at the centre of a ceremony

A chorten at Labrang monastery.

Tsedup’s youngest brother, Gorbo

Kate’s num

Kate’s dad and boys from the tribe

View of Jerko’s tent

Nawang, Tsedup and Tsedo’s children – Sanjay, Dickir Che, Ziggy and Kate

Kate, Sirmo and Shermo Donker. Me, Sirmo and Shermo pose for a picture before our trip to town.

Milking a yak

Women from Kate’s tribe

Kate, Chloё and Ells on top of the holy mountain.

Tibetan weaving techniques

Dickir Che and Ziggy

Friend Tseqwar, Tsedup’s brother, Tsedo, friend Wharden, Tsedup’s eldest brother, Rhanjer and younger brother, Gondo

Gondo’s son, Dorlo

Tsering Samdup outside the tiger’s lair at Lhamo

Rhanjer’s son, Samlo

Tsedup in winter tsokwa

Gondo’s wife, Tseten, Gondo, Tamba and friend

Tsedup’s sister, Dombie

Dombie’s son Yeshe

Dombie’s daughter Dawa with Dickir Che

Girls in tsokwas – in front, Rhanjer’s girls, Lhamo Tsering and Rinchenchet with eldest daughter, Gurra, center back

Tselo in the grassland

Dickier Che and Rinchenchet knitting

Sirmo’s son, Tsering Dhondup

Kate wearing the rings that Annay gave her

Our son, Gonbochab

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