They photographed women bent over at the waist, milking long lines of sheep and goats — a ... Yet they also emphasized that the nomads were not immune to historical change. In their 1990 book Nomads ...

Set in the high plateau of eastern Tibet DROKPA is an intimate portrait of the lives and struggles of Tibetan nomads whose life is on the cusp of irreversible change as once lush grasslands are ...

Some of the best places to see this is in the harshest places, as demonstrated by a new study linking increased oxygen ...

For Tibetan women living at elevations higher than most commercial airlines fly, however, breathing the thin mountain air is ...

Like the long knives Tibetan nomads hang from their belts ... gawking into storefronts at Chinese women in short dresses cutting customers' hair or chatting over cans of Coca-Cola.

They say the move may embolden Beijing to resettle Tibetan nomads who currently live as herders on the Hoh Xil plateau. Unesco noted that the plateau, located in the western Qinghai province ...