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Living with Nomads

Living with Nomads is a three-part BBC documentary hosted by Kate Humble, taking us on a journey to some of the world's most remote wildernesses to meet people who live their lives as nomads. In this series, Kate Humble travels to some of the world's most remote wildernesses to experience life as a nomad. She travels to south west Nepal in search of the country's last community of nomads, the Raute people. The Nenets are an indigenous people in northern arctic Russia. Kate Humble journeys to the far north of Siberia to travel with them. In her final journey of the series, Kate Humble travels deep into the southern Gobi Desert in Mongolia to live with an extended family of cashmere goat and yak herders.

Episode 1 - Nepal


Episode 1 - Nepal
Kate travels to south west Nepal in search of the country's last community of nomads, the Raute people. Almost all of the Raute population has already settled in Nepal and India - just one group of 140 people remain living as nomads.

Episode 2 - Siberia
Kate Humble journeys to the far north of Siberia in the teeth of the Arctic winter to travel with the Nenets. These reindeer herders spend their lives migrating with the seasons up and down the Yamal Peninsula, following their herds from pasture to pasture.

Episode 3 - Mongolia
Kate Humble travels deep into the southern Gobi Desert in Mongolia to live with an extended family of cashmere goat and yak herders. Here in the seemingly barren wastes of Asia's largest desert, nomads have lived cheek by jowl with nature for centuries.


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