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For over a century, Dolpo's yak caravans crossed 5,500-metre passes to trade grain for Tibetan salt. A 1959 border closure — and a film crew —…
By Laxman Rawal · Jul 20, 2026
In 1999, a French-Nepali film crew spent nine months at altitudes most film productions would refuse to insure, filming real village chiefs, lamas and herders instead of actors, to document something that was already disappearing: a yak caravan crossing…
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What this means for you The commercial caravan trade is effectively gone, but the villages, passes and valleys it ran through haven't changed as much as the economics have. Upper Dolpo, Lower Dolpo and the Limi Valley — reached by our multi-week treks into…
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