Brian and I were interviewed by AlLeTai Television about skiing (M2 Ektar 100)

Brian and I were interviewed by AlLeTai Television about skiing (M2 Ektar 100)

Brian and I were interviewed by AlLeTai Television about skiing (M2 Ektar 100)

On the road to HeMu (M2 Ektar 100)

On the road to HeMu

On the road to HeMu (M2 Ektar 100)

On the road to HeMu

Our horse at HeMu (M2 Portra 800)

Our house at HeMu (501c Ektar 100)

(M2 Portra 800)

HeMu river (M2 Portra 800)

(M2 Portra 800)

Walking to school (M2 Portra 800)

Kids on their way to school. Skis are made of pine wood with horse skins on the bottom enabling them to slide down hill and grip up hill. The earliest evidence of skiing on earth are 10,000 year old wall paintings of skiing from these mountains. (M2 Portra 800)

(M2 Portra 800)

(M2 Portra 800)

(M2 Portra 800)

(M2 Portra 800)

(M2 Portra 800)

(M2 Portra 800)

(M2 Portra 800)

Photo of HeMu village at 3am, temperature 25 degrees below zero in the dark under only partial moon light. My Canon digital camera died perminantly later in the day. It has taken over 60,000 photos the last nine years including a few hundered good ones :-)

(501c Ektar 100)

Daisy watching the sun rise at HeMu town

Daisy coming home on a sleigh

Daisy, Valorie, Brian & DuLei

(M2 Portra 800)

Silver Birch trees forest the ALeTai mountains (M2 Portra 800)

(M2 Portra 800)

(501c Ektar 100)

(M2 Portra 800)

(M2 Portra 800)

(M2 Ektar 100)

Modern Kazak horse, downtown Kanas supermarket (M2 Ektar 100)

(501c Portra 800)

Homes use coal stoves which also heat oil which circulates into radiator heating throughout the house(501c Portra 800)

(501c Portra 800)

Bathrooms lack heating here (501c Portra 800)

(M2 Ektar 100)

(501c Portra 800)

(501c Portra 800)

(501c Portra 800)

(501c Rollei CN200)

(M2 Ektar 100)

BaiHaBa is the most distant north-west village in China. Due to its proxmity to the Kazakstan boarder forigners are not peritted in BaiHaBa (M2 Ektar 100)

Ha Lang Bie Ke is from the TuWa minority in China (501c Rollei CN200 accidently exposed for 400)

We stayed at the house of the Ha Lang Bie Ke family (M2 Ektar 100)

our bedroom (501c Portra 800)

(M2 Ektar 100)

(M2 Ektar 100)

(M2 Ektar 100)

(M2 Ektar 100)

Bathrooms lack heating in the ALeTai mountains (M2 Ektar 100)

(M2 Ektar 100)

(M2 Ektar 100)

Ha Lang Bie Ke (501c Rollei CN200 accidently exposed for 400 )

(501c Rollei CN200)

NaNa and her cow (M2 Ektar 100)

DuLei, Valorie, Brian, Daisy, AhLangBeiKe, his wife & NaNa (501c Rollei CN200 accidently exposed for 400)

(501c Ektar 100)

(501c Ektar 100)

We had to dig our car out of deep new snow no less than 20 times on the road from BaiHaBa to HaBaHe (501c Ektar 100)

We had to dig our car out of deep new snow no less than 20 times on the road from BaiHaBa to HaBaHe (501c Ektar 100)

Making PopCorn

Northwest of Urho - We crossed the GuErBanTongGuTe desert ( Dzungarian Basin of the Gobi Desert) in such thick fog that we did not see any of it (501c Portra 800)

Skiing in the oil field in the middle of the GuErBanTongGuTe desert that is KiLaMaYi (M2 Portra 800)

The "Chinese Crackdown on Personal Freedom" in XinJiang is real (M2 Portra 800)

Skiing in the oil field in the middle of the GuErBanTongGuTe desert that is KiLaMaYi (M2 Portra 800)

Skiing in the oil field in the middle of the GuErBanTongGuTe desert that is KiLaMaYi (M2 Portra 800)

KiLaMaYi oilfield production exceeds ten million tons per year (M2 Portra 800)

Skiing in the oil field in the middle of the GuErBanTongGuTe desert that is KiLaMaYi (M2 Portra 800)

Daisy at KuiTun XiaGu south of DuShanZi(501c Ektar 100)

DuShanZi refines 20m tons of oil per year from the KaLaMaYi oil field and from the Kazakstan pipeline into China. (M2 Portra 800)

(M2 Portra 800)

Climbing NiTuHuoShan (Mud Volcano) in the fog (M2 Portra 800)

(M2 Portra 800)

(501c Rollei CN200)

Brian and Daisy skiing at DuShanZi TianShan (M2 Portra 800)

Brian and Daisy skiing at DuShanZi TianShan (M2 Portra 800)

(M2 Portra 800)

(M2 Portra 800)

(M2 Portra 800)

(M2 Portra 800)

(M2 Portra 800)

(M2 Portra 800)

(501c Ektar 100)

(501c Ektar 100)

(501c Ektar 100)

(501c Ektar 100)

(501c Ektar 100)

Dawn on road G217 (501c Ektar 100)

KuiTun XiaGu and the Borohoro mountains (BoLuoKeNu Shan) south of DuShanZi (501c Ektar 100)