Life at 15,400 Feet

Life at 15,400 feet on the Tibetan Plateau, where grass grows for only about three months a year and there is no firewood. Follow one day with a family of yak herders on the shores of Lake Namtso: milking before dawn, drying yak dung for fuel, churning butter tea, and riding out a summer hailstorm. Then travel down to the barley valleys near Shigatse, where the grain for tsampa is harvested, and see how herders and farmers have depended on each other for centuries. Visuals created with AI, based on documented research. People shown are not real individuals. 00:00 Before dawn at 15,400 feet 00:48 Where on Earth 01:36 The camp wakes up 02:24 Milking the dri 04:16 The herd goes out 05:20 Fuel from yak dung 06:56 Water from the stream 08:00 Fire and butter tea 10:08 Making butter and cheese 12:16 The hailstorm 13:36 Down to the barley valleys 14:24 The harvest 16:48 From grain to tsampa 17:52 Evening at camp 18:56 Night falls 19:28 A new day begins #Tibet #TibetanPlateau #YakHerders #Nomads #Documentary