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Dan | all galleries >> Travel Galleries >> Iceland - 5/2010 >> The Orkney, Shetland, and Faroe Islands > Sheep on the Mountain
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May 2010 J & D

Sheep on the Mountain

Faroe Islands

A boat ride the following morning takes us past cliffs with sheep grazing on the
steep grasslands above them. In the Spring, men use ropes to climb up to these
grasslands carrying the young sheep. The sheep survive on this hilly grassland
by not wandering and not falling to the ocean below. Before winter, the men
climb to the grassland to retrieve their grown animals. A lot of effort but
pasture land is very scarce.


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