Eric Dragesco / A yurt of a Kyrgyz shepherd family on the steppe. Naryn National Park, Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia, November 2009.

Gertrud & Helmut Denzau / Family group portrait outside their yurt (home), Gobi Desert, Mongolia.

Gertrud & Helmut Denzau / Snow leopard furs (confiscated) used as decoration inside yurt (tent), Gobi Desert, Mongolia.

Nick Garbutt / Yellowstone Expeditions Yurt Camp by star and moonlight. Near Canyon, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA. January 2012.

Shattil & Rozinski / Yurt at night in deep winter snow, Brush Creek Ranch, Saratoga, Wyoming, USA, February 2010

Shattil & Rozinski / Yurt interior at Brush Creek Ranch, Saratoga, Wyoming, USA, February 2010

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / 100 year old Yakut Yurt still used by horse herders at Tarhana in Yakutia, Siberia, Russia, 1999.

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Horse herders playing cards inside 100 year old Yakut Yurt at Tarhana. Yakutia, Siberia, Russia, 1999.

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Goat herder's Yurt, Republic of Tuva, Siberia, Russia, 1998.

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Two Chukchi women and Huskies (Canis familiaris)outside Reindeer skin yurt near Khailino. Koryakia, Kamchatka, Siberia, Russia, 1999.

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Even woman outside her yurt at camp near Khailino. Koryakia, Kamchatka, Siberia, Russia, 1999.

Jerry Monkman / A yurt at Milan Hill State Park in Milan, New Hampshire, USA. September 2009

Kristel Richard / Re-enactement of the movement of the mounted armies of Genghis Khan (emperor of the Mongol Empire) during the Genghis Khan Show, in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. The horses are Mongolian horses. July 2007

Kristel Richard / Re-enactement of the movement of the mounted armies of Genghis Khan (emperor of the Mongol Empire) during the Genghis Khan Show, in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. The horses are Mongolian horses. July 2007

Gertrud & Helmut Denzau / Snow leopard furs (confiscated) used as decoration inside yurt (tent), Gobi Desert, Mongolia.

Gertrud & Helmut Denzau / Child sitting in yurt (home), with felt-lined walls. Gobi Desert, Mongolia.

Jeff Vanuga / Yurt buried in snow at night under a full moon, Shoshone National Forest, Wyoming, USA

George Chan / Mongolians constructing a yurt on their summer pastures at Bayanbulak, Xinjiang Province, North-west China. June 2006, BBC "Wild China" series

Patricio Robles Gil / Kirguitz Sheep herders' yurt in Tien Shan Mountains, Kyrgyzstan

Konstantin Mikhailov / Satellite disc outside ger / yurt, Gobi desert, Mongolia, central asia

Konstantin Mikhailov / Yurt homes on the impoverished outskirts of Ullan-Baator, Mongolia

Konstantin Mikhailov / Yurt homes on the impoverished outskirts of Ullan-Baator, Mongolia

Konstantin Mikhailov / Woman drinking in Ger /Yurt, Gobi Desert, Mongolia

Konstantin Mikhailov / Satellite dish outside traditional gers / yurts, Gobi desert, Mongolia, central Asia

Konstantin Mikhailov / Yurt of nomads with truck, Gobi Desert, Mongolia

HUW CORDEY / Nomadic tribal people outside their traditional yurt with modern satellite dish and solar panels, Gobi Desert, Mongolia, January 2004. Filmed for BBC Planet Earth series.

Pete Oxford / Hoomi / throat singer, Gobi desert, Mongolia

Pete Oxford / Cheese drying outside Kazakh nomad's Ger / yurt / tent home, near Tsengle, Khairkhan Mountain behind, Western Mongolia

Pete Oxford / Kazakh nomad with domesticated Golden eagle {Aquila chrysaetos} used for hunting, Tsengel, West Mongolia

Pete Oxford / Yak herders outside yurt tent, Phobjika Valley, central Bhutan 2001

Pete Oxford / Lanner falcons {Falco biarmicus} outside traditional hut / yurt , with two women, Tsengel Khairshan Mt. Note - used for hunting by Kazakhs. Kazakhstan 2001

Pete Oxford / Interior of Tourist tent / gers / yurt in the Gobi desert, Mongolia. 2001

Pete Oxford / Kazakh nomad couple with Lanner falcon {Falco biarmicus} used for hunting, sitting outside their ger / yurt / tent home, Tsengel, Western Mongolia. 2001

Pete Oxford / Kazakh nomad couple with Lanner falcon {Falco biarmicus} used for hunting, sitting outside their yurt / ger home, Tsengel, Western Mongolia. 2001

Pete Oxford / Horse mare milk, stored in urns inside ger/ yurt,Gorkhi-Terelj NP, Mongolia.

Martha Holmes / Mongolian family outside traditional ger / yurt, Hangay mountains, Mongolia.

Pete Oxford / Two Lanner falcons {Falco biarmicus} used for hunting by Kazakhs, outside traditional hut / yurt door, Tsengel Khairshan. Kazakhstan 2001

Pete Oxford / Kazakh gers / yurt with livestock in landscape. Tsengel Khairkhan Mtn, W Mongolia Eagle hunters -

Martha Holmes / Mongolian family in traditional ger, Hangay mountains, Mongolia 1992

Martha Holmes / Tourists and guides in traditional ger, Hangay mountains, Mongolia, 1992

Gertrud & Helmut Denzau / Elderly couple sitting inside felt-lined yurt (tent) Gobi Desert, Mongolia.

Gertrud & Helmut Denzau / Family sitting in kitchen area inside yurt (tent) about to eat. Gobi Desert, Mongolia.

Gertrud & Helmut Denzau / Men and young boy spinning inside yurt (tent), Gobi Desert, Mongolia.

Gertrud & Helmut Denzau / Portrait of man holding pipe inside felt-lined yurt (hut). Gobi Desert, Mongolia.

Gertrud & Helmut Denzau / Two girls and elder sitting inside yurt beside kitchen area. Gobi Desert, Mongolia.

Gertrud & Helmut Denzau / Elderly women sitting inside yurt (tent), Gobi Desert, Mongolia.

Pete Oxford / Gers / yurt (traditional tent) with livestock, Bogdkhan reserve, nr Ulaanbaatar,

Colin Monteath / Tourist yurt camp in winter, Hustai National Park, Mongolia