81-Year-Old Herds Sheep and Goats in Annapurna

Myagdi. Wearing a Dhaka topi on his head. Wearing a white bhangra outside an waistcoat and trousers. Wearing knee-high gumboots. The activity of 81-year-old Lalbir Tilija, running after flocks of sheep and goats, is no less than that of youth and adolescence.

Lalbir, met in the Khayrekhola area of Annapurna Rural Municipality-5 in Myagdi, at an altitude of four thousand two hundred meters above sea level, in the second week of Bhadra, was busy following the herds of sheep and goats that had left the khark (grazing pasture) for the grazing area.