Letter from Lhasa: A lambing diary of Tibetan antelopes

by Liu Zhoupeng

LHASA, June 19 (Xinhua) -- In early summer, I embarked on a journey to a sparsely populated area in southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region at an altitude of over 5,000 meters in search of the Tibetan antelopes.

My colleagues and I drove 10 hours along the asphalt national highway on the first day to Nyima County under the city of Nagqu. By the time we arrived, it was past 8 p.m. and we