Yak hack: Kyrgyz want the world to love their blonde bovine beauties

The Akmatov family have been breeding their variety of the cattle -- which normally have dark-brown hair -- for the past 15 years, and see their growing flock as a symbol of the white yak's revival in a country plagued by climate woes. Peeking curiously from under their milky manes as they bellowed guttural sounds, the 300 or so yaks stood bemused at the sight of rare human visitors to their pasture, 3,000 metres up in the remote mountains of Central Asia. "The cold drops to -40C at night... But the yaks can graze freely...