Show more Show less Luvsanbaldan Batsukh rests next to his horse after herding sheep and goats in Khishig-Undur in Bulgan province Luvsanbaldan Batsukh , 25, tried working two years as a construction ...

Luvsanbaldan Batsukh rests next to his horse after herding sheep and goats in Khishig-Undur in Bulgan province - Copyright AFP Miguel MEDINA Luvsanbaldan Batsukh ...

Light and agile, children have long held the reins in Mongolian horse racing. But the hazards of the sport make it anything ...

A quarter of Mongolia's 3.4 million people lead nomadic lives, but hundreds of thousands have moved to the capital in the past two decades A festival in a frigid park on the edge of the world's ...

For millennia, Mongolians have lived off the land with their livestock in round ger dwellings that they pack up and move with the seasons. A quarter of Mongolia's 3.4 million people still lead nomadic ...

One of the most iconic popular images of Mongolia is that of nomadic herders, riding horses and living in gers (yurt tent-houses). The other is of powerfully built Mongolian wrestlers in traditional ...

Freezing from horseback riding in the winter and helping her herder parents tend to livestock during summers spent outdoors -- Bat-Erdene Khulan vividly remembers her childhood on Mongolia's steppe.

ULAANBAATAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - With about 100 sheep and goats, Jugder Samdan makes just enough to scrape by as a nomadic herder in Mongolia, basking in the sun as he watches over his ...

ALTANBULAG, Mongolia — It was another harsh winter on the central Mongolian steppe, with temperatures dropping to nearly 50 below zero and thick snow covering the rolling grasslands. More than a ...