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.

Dong Lei / Yurts on shaded hillside, Zoige marsh and mountains in background. Ruoergai National Nature Reserve, Sichuan Province, China. October 2018.

Cyril Ruoso / Man wearing traditional costume in ger. The last man alive to remember an encounter with a wild Przewalski horse (Equus ferus przewalskii). Great Gobi B Strictly Protected Area, Mongolia. 2018.

Staffan Widstrand / Wild Wonders of China / Mongolian Shepherd's tent or Yurt and grazing sheep, Bayanbulagu Gatcha, grassland steppe, Inner Mongolia, China. May 2016

Staffan Widstrand / Wild Wonders of China / Mongolian Shepherd's tent or Yurt and grazing sheep, Bayanbulagu Gatcha, grassland steppe, Inner Mongolia, China. May 2016

Staffan Widstrand / Wild Wonders of China / Mongolian shepherd and school teacher Qi Qi Ge, outiside her daughter's tent or Yurt, Inner Mongolia, China. May 2016

Paul Williams / Film crew working on Big Cats series lived for 4 weeks in gers / yurts when filming the rare Pallas's cat. Altanbulag, Mongolia 2017

Paul Williams / Traditional yurts at sunrise, Altanbulag, Steppe grassland, Mongolia, June 2017.

Paul Williams / Double rainbow over traditional gers / yurts, steppe grassland, Altanbulag, Mongolia, June 2017.

Mark Taylor / Kyrgyz family erecting a traditional yurt. Kyrgyzstan, August 2016.