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Sichuan's isolated Zhaba move with the times
Published Tue, Aug 22, 2017 · 09:50 PM
Zhaba, China
NIMBLE after years of practice, Trinley Norbu is used to hoisting himself three storeys up the side of a stone house and through the window for a one-night stand in his south-west China community.
While other young men squire their love interests to dinner or a movie, he has honed his climbing skills, long the key to successful courtship for men in the small matrilineal Zhaba ethnic group of Sichuan province.
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