Photo by Brendan Hoffman hoffmanbrendan Yangchan Dolma pul...

Photo by Brendan Hoffman hoffmanbrendan Yangchan Dolma pulls weeds from her barley field in the village of Thakpoo in Ladakh, northern India. Ladakh is a mountainous, high-altitude desert, but where water is available—usually from rivulets fed by glaciers at higher altitudes that begin melting each spring—life finds a way. People eke out an existence through a hardscrabble lifestyle that has hardly changed in centuries.
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