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Changthang
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en Changtang.
en 2000 Atsushi Kanamaru To Kailash Mapping the Tibetan World https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780970171603/ 1st Kotan Publishing 0-9701716-0-9 00-191717 769751049 136 https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780970171603/page/136/ 1 Although the area of Ali Prefecture is around the same size as Italy or the state of Arizona (300,000 sq km), it is dominated by the barren Changthang Plateau and is sparsely populated with only approximately 70,000 people.
en FEBRUARY 22, 2013 Ashok Pahalwan Pashmina goats perishing in heavy snow on Indian frontier Paul Casciato https://web.archive.org/web/20220613214303/https://www.reuters.com/article/india-pashmina-goats-idUSL4N0BM4WD20130222 13 June 2022 w:Reuters Cyclical Consumer Goods Thousands of Pashmina goats may have perished in recent heavy snowfall around the nomadic areas of Changthang on the Sino-Indian frontier of the Ladakh region, officials said on Friday.
en February 14, 2022 Ronald Patrick Glimpses of Northern India’s Vanishing Nomads w:The New York Times https://web.archive.org/web/20220214100629/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/14/travel/kharnak-nomads-ladakh-india.html 14 February 2022 https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/14/travel/kharnak-nomads-ladakh-india.html 0362-4331 1645522 Meanwhile, some 15,000 feet above sea level, I was simply trying to breathe. Here on the Changthang plateau, in a remote region of the Indian Himalayas, the altitude had left me lightheaded and gasping for air.