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My rented car with punctured tyres in the middle of nowhere.
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Wild Mongolian horses flee in all directions as we get close.
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For my expedition I needed seven horses to transport all necessary equipment, food and tents.
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Sometimes our horses refused to cross the rivers.
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We crossed snowpeaked mountains with an altitude of 2500 meters above sea level. When the landscape was to steep we had to drag our horses up and down the mountains.
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My chef brought a suitcase with wheels...
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To keep ourselves warm we had to collect "twigs" for fire.
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Early morning after a cold night of minus 30 degrees.
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My chef making dinner after a long day on the horseback.
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I had three local Mongolians working for me fulltime. Here we enjoy the silence night of Northern Mongolia.
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Expedition to visit Dukha
Credits:
robert mcpherson
Updated: 05/22/20
To reach the Dukha nomads I had to catch a local plane from the capital Ulan Batar to a city called Murun. From there on I had three local Mongolians working for me fulltime. We had to drive 150km in an old jeep. It took us 15 hours to drive 150km. There were no roads and my head banged the roof several times. We reached a small village called Ulan Uul at night. I slept over with my drivers family who also appeared to be a nomad himself. From Ulan Uul village it was not possible to drive closer to reach the Dukha nomads. We had to ride horses for four days until we reached the Dukha nomads who lived in the sub-arctic landscape of Northern Mongolia. We crossed high snow peaked mountains and slept in tents with minus 30 degrees.
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