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Large parts of Mongolia, including parts of the Altai Tavan Bogd national park, were still blanketed in snow at the start of summer in June. [Asha Tanna/Al Jazeera]
This year, temperatures plummeted to below minus 40 degrees Celsius in some provinces. Seeing thick snow cover in the middle of June is unheard of, say the nomads. [Asha Tanna/Al Jazeera]
'I have never seen this in all my life,' 70-year-old Äje (left), says about the duration of this winter. [Asha Tanna/Al Jazeera]
Last summer 50 percent of the territories in the west and south saw hay yields decline from the severe drought. The fallout from turbulent weather conditions will have a knock-on-effect for more than just this year. [Asha Tanna/Al Jazeera]
Many wooden bridges in remote areas have been destroyed from flash floods, cutting off access routes, making migration across vast distances longer, harder and riskier. [Asha Tanna/Al Jazeera]
‘Dzud’ is the word Mongolians use to describe harsh winters that have plummeting temperatures and anomalies in snowfall following a summer drought. Dzud is usually associated with large-scale livestock mortality. Between 1940 and 2015, there were official 'dzud declarations' made twice a decade. But this has since increased and it is now happening annually. [Asha Tanna/Al Jazeera]
Even hardy yaks were a casualty this winter. Other livestock like goats not only provide meat and milk but also extra income from cashmere. Goat hair is a lucrative trade and the death of so many will be crippling to herders. [Asha Tanna/Al Jazeera]
The landscape of the Altai mountain range is dotted with half-eaten, decayed carcasses of livestock that have died. [Asha Tanna/Al Jazeera]
Serikgul Askerhan, a herder’s wife and a mother of young children, says her family lost half their sheep and goats and 10 yaks this winter. [Asha Tanna/Al Jazeera]
Every year, Mendei Berdimurat makes a 150km migration on foot with his livestock from his winter camp to the summer pastures. [Asha Tanna/Al Jazeera]
Retired herder Ajken Tabysbek says he has never experienced a winter of continuous snowfall like this in his lifetime. [Asha Tanna/Al Jazeera]
Some herder families will have livestock in numbers up to 400. For many, their wealth is their herd. [Asha Tanna/Al Jazeera]
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