Jigmet Paley has a confession to make: He is really tired. “Ladakh’s identity is because of pashmina,” says Saugat Biswas, secretary/divisional commissioner, UT secretariat, Leh-Ladakh. No matter where you go in the Changthang, “you won’t find many young people interested in pashmina”, he adds. Sonam Angmo and Stanzin Minglak’s joint venture Lena Ladakh Pashmina, for instance, started as a “slow-textile” …
Just gusts of howling wind, giving them company from sunrise to sunset, followed by clusters of dazzling stars peeping down from the night sky into their yak-skin tents. Living in the remote, Trans-Himalayan Changthan region of Ladakh, at roughly 16,000-plus feet above sea level where, for centuries, they have been shepherding their world-class Pashmina wool-bearing goats, the Changpa nomads may …
The Changpas are leading suppliers of cashmere wool, who originate in the Changthang region of the Tibetan Plateau. [imgcenter> [/imgcenter> Pashmina goats in the Hanle Valley: Through most of the year, the goats are grazed in pastures located at a height of more than 4,500 meters above sea level. [imgcenter> [/imgcenter> While Changpa women remain busy in the mornings and …
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