To go with 'MONGOLIA-GENDER-HERDERS-CULTURE, SPECIAL REPORT' by Oliver Hotham and Khaliun Bayartsogt
This photo taken on June 30, 2024 shows Bat-Erdene Khulan (L), a financial consultant who now lives in the capital Ulaanbaatar, talking with her mother Sanduijav Altakhuyag inside their ger (Mongolian tent) in Batsumber in Tuv province. Frozen from horseriding in the winter and teased by other kids for her tan from summers spent outdoors -- Bat-Erdene Khulan vividly remembers childhood on Mongolia's steppe with her herder parents. She has since studied in Luxembourg, raised a child in the city, and earns a comfortable living in finance -- bridging a divide between rural and urban life in a country where the demands of the modern world are extinguishing nomadic traditions. (Photo by Hector RETAMAL / AFP) / To go with 'MONGOLIA-GENDER-HERDERS-CULTURE, SPECIAL REPORT' by Oliver Hotham and Khaliun Bayartsogt