About a third of the population are herdsmen, and many families raise one or two yak for themselves. |
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Regular oxygen infusions from my canister prevent me from fainting, but a fellow passenger is not so lucky when we stop for a yak photo-op. |
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After all, this ticket could say that I was taking a mud bath with a yak in the Gobi desert for all we know, right? |
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Altitude sickness, parasites, frostbite and being gored by a yak are some of the reasons most people prefer to travel in their armchairs. |
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A team of Royal Navy marines joined the rescue effort before Conan endured a 17-hour journey back to base camp on the back of a yak. |
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I love that I don't have to make cheese from the juice of a yak, or headache pills from bark, or butter from the hooves of a caribou. |
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We walked through a yak herder's camp where great black beasts snorted columns of white steam. |
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The shrines in their homes are spattered with cooking fat and they recite a mantra in the same breath as they yell at a yak. |
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She'd been sitting quietly up until this point, but decided to have a great old yak in protest while Lee does this really appalling campy dance. |
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Certainly the bombast of cable's top yak show host, Bill O'Reilly, seems anything but cool. |
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He was quick to raise his voice through a cordless microphone to silence the gathering engaged in a yak. |
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Likewise, Laurie Brereton, Latham's numbers man, occasionally walked the floor to have a yak to colleagues. |
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I'm outta here early this week so's I can make the haj to Kalamazoo and yak about Making Senses Out of Scripture. |
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I was mainly doing vocals and they'd tell me what they had been doing all day, mainly we'd get together and yak away, mix all the material up. |
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Csif people would often go over the lab and sit on the couch drinking coffee and just yak about film stuff. |
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And now I'm knackered and going to lie down on the bed, squish my new do with my headset and yak to Walker until it's time for work. |
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So it was easier to let the old blowhard yak away and just nod occasionally. |
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She says deer, elk, Nubian ibex, antelope, bison and yak are particular favourites for canned hunters. |
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In the nearby field, a heavily yoked yak drags the wooden plough through the rocky soil to the singsong tune of his master. |
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I yak about it here and also point you to a most astonishing photo of her preggy balloon-belly. |
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You can make an appointment by calling 931-3385, or just stop in if you happen to be passing by and feel a yen to yak. |
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Draft animals, especially the ubiquitous dzo, a cross between a yak and a cow, play a central part in the farming economy. |
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They could milk and herd the dzo, the cross between a yak and a cow, that meets most of Ladakh's dairy needs. |
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The stone walls and stick ceiling drip with black tar from decades of burning yak dung. |
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They gave us creamy yak yoghurt buried with an inch of tsampa and for once I truly relished its nutty flavour. |
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Devout persons, offering sacrifices of fruit, yak butter or flowers, touch and kiss the idol, which is tinted with red ochre. |
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There his leg was splinted and eight Tibetan yak herdsmen carried Conan for 17 hours to base camp. |
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And of course the yak is as indispensable to the Ladakhis as it is to the Tibetans. |
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As a beast of burden the yak can keep a foothold on even the steepest path and it can be ridden. |
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The Han drink it unsweetened and black, Mongolians have it with milk, and Tibetans serve it with yak butter. |
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Everything from sides of yak meat to items of laundry was thrown onto the pyres. |
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Herdsmen dwell in large tents made of canvas or woven yak wool. |
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And when we were out on bail, staying with the Dalai Lama, My uncle, he gave me a ride on a yak, And I was speechless. |
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It is the home of the yak, which has to be the coolest animal around. |
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They will just yak their heads off about their experiences while they are here. |
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After this trip in the yak country, we went down to more confortable altitudes and took the train to Xi'an. |
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Its members yak continually and try to throw off the speakers when discussing a topic the government is not comfortable with. |
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By the way, the tibetan food is really delicious, with lot of yak meat, milky products, everything very sophisticated. |
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It provides water for irrigation and, in summer, there are summer pastures for sheep and herds of horse and yak. |
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In remote villages under some of the world's highest peaks, the supplies will arrive by yak train. |
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Those 13,, those 13 valuable wild mammals were the cow, sheep, goat, horse, pig, the reindeer, donkey, Arabian camel, Asian camel, water buffalo, yak, gaur and Bali cattle. |
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If you were in a lamasery and one of your duties was to look after a herd of yaks, would you answer a yak who asked you what you were? |
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This is the first time that the seroprevalence of antibodies against BHV-1 has been studied in yak in India. |
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I had a dream about barbecuing a yak as some sort of retribution. |
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Tinle, the man's father and a proud old chief, refuses to grant another young herder leadership of the annual yak caravan across the mountains to exchange salt for grain. |
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Janecek et al. found an anomalous association of yak with taurine cattle, which was explained by the sampling of an animal descending from a zebu via the maternal lineage. |
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Gulliver, too, has no interest in listening to other people yak away midair. |
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He once chased a yak to the top of the mountain to take its picture. |
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I couldn't walk up to my friends and yak on about the shows and discuss what we'd been seeing. |
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Pausing only for a feed of their chocolate cake the two intrepid animal explorers finally arrive at the yabbering yak and zany zebra. |
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Indigenous mountain animals like the llama, alpaca, and vicuña in the Andes or the yak in the Himalayas are adapted rather than acclimatized to the low oxygen partial pressures of high altitude. |
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I was riding a yak up the Himalayas, as you do, when I noticed I wasn't wearing any underwear. |
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At one point, some steppe bison crossbred with the ancestors of the modern yak. |
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Grindelwald tourism and Grindelwald Sports organise various guided tours and excursions, for example glacier tours, rock and ice climbing, river rafting, fun yak, bungy jumping, deep snow adventure, etc. |
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The backbenchers love to yak, but they are devoid of ideas themselves. |
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More rarely, yarn may be spun from camel, yak, possum, musk ox, cat, dog, wolf, rabbit, or buffalo hair, and even turkey or ostrich feathers. |
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I was doing a bit of yak shaving this morning, and it looks like it might have paid off. |
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They grew the food, dug the roads and paid tribute to the Dalai Lama, their spiritual leader, in silver coins, tea bricks and yak butter, which the other high-ups would rifle as they pleased. |
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Such is the extent and complexity of the new motorway network that Beijing drivers have a choice of roads before they join, if they haven't already, the G6 for the ascent into the yak pastures. |
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They live as they have for centuries, walking across frozen expanses with their sheep and their yak, seemingly untouched by the incredible pace of development taking place all around them, save for the occasional solar panel. |
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The people who live there are yak herders who spend time between the villages and the high altitude yak herding camps and are cut off from the outside world for six months a year by deep snow. |
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In recent years, they have broadened their horizon to include bison, yak, cashmere, angora and musk ox, among others. |
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The poor wretched boy was most unhappy at the hardhearted man servant who was thoroughly smearing his ai1 with yak butter, and then plaiting a tight pig-tail with curious twist in it. |
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The next stop was the house of the gup, who was once the reputed strongman of Merak, famous for being able to lift a young bull yak and place it on his back. |
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This included reports of domestic yak showing signs of infection. |
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Lots of Yak trains on the way, Yaks being the only means of carrying large loads up to the villages and base camps of the various mountains. |
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George Hulett and myself were orbiting over the desert at 5500 feet in the Bonanza camera plane when Bruce Lockwood streaked past us, the bright red nose of the Yak 3 a blur. |
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