Tim making away across the steppe alone nearby the large town of Ayaguz This is the way that Tim usually travels: essesntial survival tools and camera gear on the lead horse, equipment on the first pack-horse, and 50kg of grain on the last horse
This what it is like day in, day out, roaming across this open frozen steppe that spreads out like a white ocean Unusual rock formations and little mountains often appear surreal, poking up like islands on the horizon.
Acet, the local who accompanied Tim for 10 days, leading along a small spur to the valley below The temperature is dropping to -20 and its only November!
A nomad grave out on the steppe These clay-built graves are no older than a couple of hundred years The nomads believed that these graves last as long as is necessary, and it is only natural for these graves to evfentually erode away and return to the steppe.
A frosty morning on the steppe, probably down to about -30 degrees Tim encountered temperatures dropping into the minus thirties for an extended period The horses handle the cold well, but it is very tough to pack them and get moving in these conditions.
The village of Kindikti, a remote village out on the steppe Tim took cover here in November during a three-day snow storm.
Tim taking a break in the morning after breakfast Time to start packing up and getting on the road.
