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Yaks—living our prime existence

The Tibetan plateau may be the roof around the globe. Rising three miles in to the sky, the environment is intolerably thin, water is scarce, and temperatures regularly plummet to –40°F. No trees peep over the rocky, windswept landscape. Even sturdy shrubs find it difficult to survive. Yet there they’re, plenty of them—massive hairy yaks …