khampa: Dashing Off
On the first step to the roof of the world, near the town of Litang, the Khampa nomads gather yearly for their horse racing festival. Richard Restell camps out with China's modern-day cowboys.
In 1964 an anthropologist called Michael Piessel made his way to a sleepy town high in the mountains of western Sichuan Province. Here he met the Khampa, a fiercely independent and proud nomadic race who made their living herding livestock across the vast, barren grasslands.
The Khampas stood a good [ read more ]
