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Smoothing the path: Tibet
Diane McKinnon driving a grader
Tibet.
This unlikely looking apparatus is a grader for smoothing the roads of Tibet. Usually it is drawn by a tiny tractor but at times a stocky pony is enlisted to provide the motive power.
Very few roads in Tibet are paved. Most are metal, requiring regular maintainence by road-crews who sport fluourescent red jackets like their Western counterparts.
Diane lacks the standard jacket, but has always fancied herself at the controls of a grader. Here she is fulfilling her dreams perhaps on a less powerful machine than she had hoped!
Thanks to Rodney Lewington who took this photo during a recent tour in Tibet.
Next month: The golden deer.
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revision 18 Mar 2001
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