Snapping the Yak: How an Iconic Photo Ended Up on Nepal's Currency

It was high up on the Plateau of Tibet in Nepal in 2015 — a six-day mule trek away from civilization — when Geraldine Werhahn took a photo so iconic that it now graces the country’s 5 rupee note. Werhahn, a zoology graduate student at the University of Oxford, had finally spotted a wild yak.