Last modified on Thu 4 Feb 2021 07.47 EST
Former free-roaming nomads now mostly resettled in rows of sun-baked block houses in Tibet are facing a struggle for their identity, their spiritual and cultural practices â and even their stomachs.
These yak-tending herders have always eaten meat. In addition to the milk, butter and cheese they derived from yaks, meat was a necessity in their harsh lives.
But a movement spurred by Tibetan Buddhist monks in the region over the past two decades has increasingly urged now sedentary nomads to practise vegetarianism, to pay a âlife ransomâ for the release of animals destined for the slaughterhouse, and to abandon the slaughter of their own animals because they have settled down.
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It’s you who will climb the mountain…
By: Gautam Viswanathan
Nadhira Al Harthy’s experiences climbing some of the world’s most challenging mountains have forever changed her for the better.
Her recent scaling of Nepal’s Ama Dablam has only emphasised the lessons she’s picked up along the way, and serve as a constant reminder to be grateful for all she has in life.
Standing at 6,812 metres, Ama Dablam is considered a technically challenging peak among mountaineers, and Nadhira and her five other climbers required plenty of training and acclimatisation before they could attempt to reach the top. As the first Omani woman to climb Mount Everest, she is not one to take preparation lightly.
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