Image of The Week: Mongolia – Death on The Steppe

This weeks image is another from the harsh Eurasia Steppe of central Mongolia. Looking at this picture, for some reason you get a feeling that the temperature would be hot and dry, but that couldn’t be any further from the truth. It was actually just above freezing outside with the temperature hovering around 5c to 6c. At night it would drop below freezing and would sometimes snow. This is a harsh land, and we were witnessing it mid Autumn. During the winter months the temperature will drop to 30c below with the harsh Siberian winds blowing from the north. During an afternoon hike I stumbled over this yak skull and though it made for a nice capture.

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