This seventy-two-year-old sprightly Tibetan nomad woman lives alone in a sheepfold at the foot of Amnye Machen while the younger family members pass the summer with the flocks higher up in the mountain. When she was fifty-six she circled the sacred mountain, offering full prostrations the entire way: hence, what is usually a seven day walking pilgrimage took her more than two months to accomplish. 2003.