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Growing up on top of the world: A nomadic family's summer on the Qinghai-Tibet plateau | South China Morning Post

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Duojie Caidan, a 13-year-old Tibetan boy, lives among mountains in Qinghai, China. Like generations before them, his family are nomadic herders. Duojie and his siblings spend their school holidays on a pasture herding yaks. Their days start at 6am, helping to milk the yaks, and then herding them, which the children …

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