Sichuan's isolated Zhaba move with the times

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.