Kate Karko's conventional, comfortable upbringing did not prepare her for meeting her Tibetan husband, Tsedup, in Northern India where he was living in exile. They came to live in England and after a total of nine agonising years away from his family he was eventually given permission to travel home as a British citizen. Kate left her job as a designer on a magazine for life in a tent on the Roof of the World. She was welcomed as one of the tribe, given the name Namma, and lived with them on the vast and remote grasslands of Amdo at the far east of the Tibetan Plateau.
From milking yaks to collecting dung, cracking open the ice on the stream to wash each morning and battling with her lack of communication skills, it was a constant education in another way to be. She observed the nomads' ancient shamanic rituals and buddhist religious practices and through their worship of nature, she discovered a love for her new environment.
This book is about an exchange of cultures. A sharing. It is about discovering another people and discovering another self, an intimate portrayal of the life of the Tibetan nomads.
