High Altitude desert - The Kyrgyz nomads
49 images Created 2 Dec 2014
High Altitude Desert: the pastoralist diet.
The Kyrgyz of the Pamir Mountains in
Northern Afghanistan live at a high altitude way above tree lines, where no crops grow. Survival depends on the animals that they milk, butcher, and barter.
This is part of a global story shot for National Geographic and titled "The Evolution of Diet", on self-sufficient communities, their lifestyle and food habits.
Story here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwlDCHeOpKE
And here with text @Matthieu Paley : https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photography/proof/2014/09/18/we-are-what-we-eat-the-high-altitude-diet-of-afghanistans-nomads/
And here: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/foodfeatures/evolution-of-diet/
The Kyrgyz of the Pamir Mountains in
Northern Afghanistan live at a high altitude way above tree lines, where no crops grow. Survival depends on the animals that they milk, butcher, and barter.
This is part of a global story shot for National Geographic and titled "The Evolution of Diet", on self-sufficient communities, their lifestyle and food habits.
Story here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwlDCHeOpKE
And here with text @Matthieu Paley : https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photography/proof/2014/09/18/we-are-what-we-eat-the-high-altitude-diet-of-afghanistans-nomads/
And here: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/foodfeatures/evolution-of-diet/
