Rinchen Namgyal, aged 19, sits by the window with his 10 year old dog, Tommy as he waits for lunch on 2nd June 2009. Rinchen and his family run a home stay program in Ulley Valley, a scattered village of only 5 houses, one school, 38 people, 4 school children, and 4 pet dogs. The village is not accessible by road. The homestay program is managed by 'Snow Leopard Conservation Organisation', an NGO that helps families in the mountains that face constant snow leopard attacks on their livestock. Leh town is 3505m above sea level, in the Indian Himalayan mountains, in the valley of Ladakh is located in the Indian Himalayas, in the northern state of Jammu and Kashmir. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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