The unique life of Pakistan’s Wakhi shepherdesses - BBC 100 Women, BBC World Service

Deep into Pakistan's Karakoram mountains lies the scenic Shimshal Valley, home to the Wakhi shepherdesses. Every year, over many generations, these women have taken their flocks to high pastures, where they prepare dairy products to barter while their animals graze during the warmer season.

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Their income has brought prosperity to the village and allowed them to build roads and provide an education for their children - but their tradition is about to end.

BBC 100 Women follows the last shepherdesses on their journey up the mountains, on a dangerous trek 4,800m above sea level.

00.00 Introduction
02:30 Setting off on the trek
05:02 Walking barefoot
07:38 The end is close
10:11 The cunning wolves
11:35 "My children died"
13:30 Making butter and yoghurt
15:49 A new road
19:40 The final chapter

Produced and directed by Farhat Javed
Filmed by Nayyar Abbas, Sajjad Beyg, Farhat Javed, Taseer Beyg
Edited by Derrick Evans
Scripting and storytelling by Sarah Dias
Executive producers: Valeria Perasso, Vandana Vijay
BBC 100 Women editor: Golnoosh Golshani
BBC Pakistan editor: Sana Gulzar
Commissioning editors: Claire Williams, Vara Szajkowski

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