The solitary nomadic Tsaatan families are constantly on the move herding their beloved reindeer over remote routes amongst the vast East and West Taiga mountains of northern Mongolia.
The Omo Valley, in The Horn of Africa, on Ethiopia’s southern border with Sudan, Kenya and Uganda, is the traditional grazing lands to some of the most remote tribes on our planet.
The Saan people are the earliest community culture in Southern Africa. The leathery-lean Bushmen, as they are also known, have survived for centuries in the African bush and are, probably, our planet’s first conservationists.
The Kingdom of Lo in Nepal is a high altitude desert dotted with treasures of untouched Tibetan culture. This mystical valley of innocence and beauty, set against medieval legend, is unlike any other part of the high Himalaya.
As the last generation reaches the nation’s life-expectancy, unmasking the mesmerising tattooed ladies and personalising their living art is short-lived. The 500-year old tradition of tattooing young ladies’s faces ceased more than 50years ago.
The Omo Valley, in The Horn of Africa, on Ethiopia’s southern border with South Sudan, is the traditional grazing lands to some of the most remote tribes on our planet.
In a small town outside Addis Abba, a crowd dressed in white spilled over walls of a local football stadium which was quickly transforming into a hypnotic centre of celebration.
As the biting Mongolian winter fast approaches there’s 600 goats, sheep, camels and bovid yaks to migrate safely across Mongolia’s western steppes along a route used by nomads over generations.
The Omo Valley presents some of the most isolated communities on our planet. The tribes people are colourful pastoralists with very unique customs. A visit is not for the faint-hearted.
Following up his theory John uncovered these tribes deep in West Papua’s rainforest region before leading a BBC documentary team back into the remote area. It sparked my curiosity.
Amongst Mongolia’s western steppes the Kazakh-infused tradition of eagle hunting is making a renaissance. Hunting with golden eagles is a centuries old tradition with the mastery passed down from father to sons.
