2007年7月21日，在印度克什米尔地区列城附近，一名喜马拉雅山区Changpa部落老妇人背着她的孙女站在帐篷外。对于这些在帐篷里居住的人们来说，自然条件就是生活的一切条件。崎岖的地形，恶劣的天气，物资的匮乏都不是问题。但是在临近中国西藏地区的高原地带，恶劣的生活状况正在使Changpa部落人数越来越少，逐渐走向消失。 An elderly Changpa woman carries her grand daughter on her shoulders as they stand outside a tent in Khamak, some 185 kilometers from Leh,India, Thursday, 21 July, 2007. Nature is everything in life for these nomadic tent-dwellers. Inhospitable terrain, harsh climate and the lack of basic amenities do not pose a problem. But in Changthang, a high-aititude plateauin eastem Ladakh, which shares a border with China's Tibet Autonomous Region, the Changpas have started to dwindle and they are on their way to become a vanishing tribe,