Sometimes they join up with other nomads. There can be well over a thousand animals and people moving at one time. Youngdue last saw his family in the summer of 1997. There is no post office. Letters are delivered by a messenger on horseback.
Communicating takes a long time.
He was six years old when his parents allowed him to enter a Tibetan SOS Children's Village in northern India where he would receive an education. Youngdue stayed in the Tibetan Children's Village for 10 years. As he grew older, he was placed in different branches of Village schools. In 1992, an American businessman altered the course of his life. Currier visited the Children's Village schools and sponsored four of the best and brightest students, giving them an opportunity to attend high school and college in the United States with full scholarships to private institutions.