Two yaks looked on with expressions that probably pass, in the yak world, for unabashed admiration.
But who needs a flush toilet when you have wild open yak pastures and alpine meadows?
The only company I found here were yak herders, bearded vulture and a host of 8, 000m peaks.
SCAT's website shows it flies Boeing 757s and 737s along with the Yak-42 and the An-24.
Everything from sides of yak meat to items of laundry was thrown onto the pyres.
In yak-skin boats, they float down the river that he has fashioned from bamboo and fibreglass.
The last reported crash of a Yak-42 in Russia was in June 1982 aboard an Aeroflot airlines flight.
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Burning yak dung in a wood-burning-style stove was the only form of heat at night, Ms Lloyd said.
News of the tragic accident of a mid-sized Yak-42 Russian aircraft sent shockwaves throughout the global ice hockey community.
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After complaints from yak herders, the Bhutanese banned foreign climbers from crawling up the face of their sacred mountains.
On the trail, yak trains amble down from higher villages, and porters sprint past with seemingly impossible weights hanging from their heads.
Later in one of the yurts I sat in a cross-legged circle with a group of guests eating balls of rancid yak butter.
The most rewarding goal is a three- to four-week trek from the one-yak town of Taplejung to the north and south base camps of Kanchenjunga.
The Yak-42 plane was carrying the team to Minsk, the Belarusian capital, for the start of the new Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) season.
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Very little is known about wild yak biology, such as how often the animals breed and how many young yaks survive to adulthood.
The yak is the third-largest beast in Asia, after the elephant and rhino, but due to its remote location has never been officially weighed.
It is reported that the Soviet Union has, among other things, utilized Olivetti-supplied machine tools to fabricate its new YAK-41 supersonic, short-take-off-and-landing naval fighter aircraft.
The machine tools allegedly sold by the Italian firm, Olivetti, to a Soviet aeronautics factory where they were used to build the YAK 41 fighter-bomber.
Beijing was never likely to open Tibet up for filming so the movie was shot in Argentina, a herd of yak were ordered over the Internet.
The former king, Jigme Singye Wangchuck, had announced the end of the absolute monarchy three years earlier before an audience of yak herders in a remote mountain village.
But the achingly poor town doesn't appear to have a blade of grass the dust next to the sidewalks is four inches thick let alone a horse, although a yak wanders by.
When the Nepali authorities refused to let the canoe into Everest National Park without a permit, Pugh was forced to hide it under tarpaulin and smuggle it in on the back of a yak.
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My small group of journalists were flown from Brussels to Poland and then around the country on one of the smaller planes in the Polish government VIP fleet, a Soviet-built Yak 40.
But it would appear that one Thai Buddhist sect has decided, nay declared, that Steve Jobs is now half of a yak inhabiting a crystal and silver castle in the afterlife.
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Discover the astonishing variety of Himalayan wildflowers, quaint village hamlets, pristine forests, yak herder camps and mountain vistas, culminating at the Selela Pass , the only location in Bhutan where the wild red poppy is found.
The civilians were two brothers who were in a car that was being searched by the police at a checkpoint when the strike occurred in the Deh Yak district of Ghazni province, according to district chief Fazel Ahmad Toolwak.
Yak-42 planes are made in Russia.
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Recently, Syria has attempted to get some of its Mi-24 attack helicopters refurbished by Russia -- a move which prompted an international outcry -- and has ordered Yak-130 advanced training jets and MiG-29 fighter jets that have yet to be delivered.
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