A circle of elderly men sits on low stone walls, their faces lined like topographical maps. They play Sho , a dice game using cowrie shells and a wooden board. There is no money at stake; the wagers are stories. Every roll of the dice unearths a memory: a yak stampede of 1982, a Yeti sighting during a blizzard of 1974, the week the first television set arrived in town (it showed static for three days until the electrician came from two valleys over).
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