The onset of Winter: local khiid and stupas and the first fall of snow-dust on the grassland steppe in Dundgovi Aimag Mongolia. 4 November 2011. Photograph: C.Pleteshner

The onset of Winter: local khiid and stupas and the first fall of snow-dust on the grassland steppe in Dundgovi Aimag Mongolia. 4 November 2011. Photograph: C.Pleteshner

The onset of Winter: local khiid and stupas and the first fall of snow-dust on the grassland steppe in Dundgovi Aimag Mongolia. 4 November 2011. Photograph: C.Pleteshner