or the the, the the we are in august on one of the most ethnically and culturally diverse regions on the entire planet. in fact, this city there been states all the way back to 8th century b. c. and was an important cultural stop on the great. so way, which means it's

a perfect place for us to jump right in and get a feel for everything the,

what is a lead me though, is a local historian, musician and guy with a special passion and connection to douglas dining culture the as well thanks for meeting me here in talks, it's a beautiful, beautiful area. um, so let's get right into a darkest on a 30 different ethnic groups. 14 different languages about 200 different dialects. how can you have so much diversity in such a small, small space? little boy, 2 of the arabs and other travelers who came here. i used to say that i guess done was not just a land of mountains, but also a mountain of languages that i'm a good people living on each mountain, spoke their own language. for the cars, they've got a both wheels,

it the roads were barely possible that will get through the settlements had little contact with each other. so different places had their own different languages, different customs, and different cultures that instead of the, of the kids as me, which it doesn't include to, to, even today. so when you literally go past the next hill, you'll hear a different language come through, boys. they come speak, doug, and that gives other speak luck. no luck, other speak, lives getting go on the bus out and coming up for both of them. so impossible. mountains go to eat and it's the nature of people i knew they'd like to be different from everyone. else at the, traditionally they're attached to what they say is their own language croft and so on. the rest of the 2 languages and doug is done today and comfortable, but unfortunately 25 i'd like for you to go extinct in the near future because language is a disappearing. but just like in the rest of the world, because, and that's very sad, is this a regression will do some scary. so on the issue of how much the calculus to meet a lot of the cases with so much diversity. it's still incredible that there isn't

any in fighting. in fact, there's a word that i believe you have. it's called good. see meaning, highlander? what does this word mean to you? what does it mean to be good? see here, and i guess the majority of people who are free, so free like an eagle or the highlander is self sufficient from a bus perfectly, as we say, new people in the mountains entre rich that are great, all self sufficient for us to pursue this. they have enough focus on right, some of highlanders and guardians of land a bit, it goes into the little settlements were built in how to reach spots where agriculture was impossible, was miserable. and the name dug as done itself means a land of mountains. so that makes the old guest dani, people who go to the phone. if a boat you have a good when someone does a good job, people praise him and we don't get are a real god. it's being called a gun. it's weird because a sign of recognition from the local people. you're talking about relationships between people. everyone here is open, they're friendly and they help each other. in fact, i've,

i've seen this with my own eyes. people can walk into someone's house and there's so much hospitality. but i've also heard that the mountain people are tough. it seems like a paradox. can you explain this paradox to me? no. well, you can walk into any highlanders home and be there on a guest. not just on big holidays and most are going to go. so you can do that at any time close for park. as we say, a guest is a messenger from, i'll probably with this and it with us and doesn't just show up in a mountain village for no reason. he is about to me as if he's here because he must needs something like some one of and the highlanders who hosts job is to help that person is the best way he can so that the visitor is comfortable and the quotes of the guest gets the best room, the best food that you pick, the best treatment, and up to date when you get the money. at the same time, a harsh conditions with temperatures dropping sharply, a nice product must have influenced the local character as well. we saw people can easily get relaxed, but that tempers rise just as quickly difficult was we'll,

there's like a muscle that contracts and relax is going on with it. but maybe that explains the paradox item that it's on that. and that's what i think, at least a, someone who lives. here we go to like a company who is just stephen getting here today. it is not that easy. um, living in the mountains is hard. why do people choose this live to live up here? away from all technology away from all civilization. uh, what the hell, as i said before, and then go to the highlanders main, treasury's his freedom and the vendor with a football. do you what that gives him his he felt free in places like this. there was no walls surrounding him, but nothing blocking is vision or so. you can see an enemy more, a friend approaching from long way away. boy is so if you have a special klein medical, so people found their roots here are 2. and once they settled for whatever reason, they go to death lands on mountain terraces, and they were self sufficient in bush and they had everything they needed. yes,

i think the right alpine meadows above the terrace, foaming below, there was some gardens where you can at least grow apples and pass it. and that was enough to sustain life here in the mountains. you just go to the front page. it's fast moving. i have to ask because you look amazing. so tell me about what you were a lovely in between a. this is traditional highland dress. when you start out at 1st they will white. but during the caucasian will they will mostly read so that wounds wouldn't be so visible. that's why we have this joke and august on the read does the have a color with a jet of cask special breast pockets. the rifle charges the vertex in flint deluxe . we used to have multiples, i can put you because i see that in the front desk doing the pockets helped to reload quickly. but it was easy to remove cartridges when lying down, which is much easier than from a cartridge belt in the prepared to get a cartridge out to a belt, you have to raise the upper part of your body. even though the a little caught up the more and become a to, i'll get a so we see that puckett allowed you to reload and shoot on the well staying press

to the ground to good. it's what benefits to do this. here is just an element of the cost you him, but also a reminder is the highlander is always ready to help if the need arises, are coming from. but you're not supposed to pull your di alphabets scabbard without the good reason. and it took them according to all saying, in order to wear a danco around your belt and that you need, nope, just have a pass code on your head vision, but also a head under your password. and that means that you're supposed to think twice before using a dagger. wouldn't even have familiar with the even when got so you would get into a fight, stepping your opponents with a go like this was considered the calendars and made you a target of a blood feud on the missed to you was supposed to slash you in order to stop your opponent edition, would that even cut his wrist? but stabbing meant killing $200.00 religion from the from pointing of the person like this is perceived as a threat, but you're not supposed to do it. most part of it. even if i just do this, i'll have to answer for this threat to the almighty. if it needs it, so a dagger is just a deterrent go. it pressure fits the budget was it was

a new position for their thoughts or shots. and i see i have so many more questions for you, and i also know that you're a musician, so i'm fascinated to care on this conversation someplace else already. the . so i have to say this is a beautiful, incredibly interesting instrument. tell me the story. what do we have here? um, the instrument like any of our language, we call this instrument on more than normal pandora in russian. elizabeth a, it's the oldest musical instrument in the mountains. got off, a young guy fell in love with a girl but failed to win a hand in marriage. so he killed him to go to come and jump down his new tree 0

because he was the owner of only one dagger. and then he made this instrument with strings fashion, from the goat's gods, and then he sang a very bitter song about unrequited love, just and that the story of how psalms and this instrument appeared in the mountains engulfed, fails with all mountain songs, a very long and have very profound meaning sections in the back in the day one could get a whole sore, a knox as payment for a song. this is the words web, very highly prized here in the mountains. and so with songs for go, businesses. very cool. one things that i can't miss here are all of the terraces. obviously they're not natural, but they've been here for thousands of years. how are they made and why? so that's the terraces here and show me with a 1st example of green terrace farming and the well behind the village of chalk that's on the other side of that rock with a choice, the site of the chalk several months. we did what they think back to the 6 or 7000

years, b c. and yeah, and it's very ancient. it's thought to be now listen to it outside of these terraces of very, very old with it. these lands sustained full fathers. not far from here is a small goes to town or village called it comes to little it's a little bit hunting and some people are calling it the much repeat you of august time. why did everyone pick up and leave from this area? a little disappointing of us. we do coal gums. so to the ghost village and some refer to it as the my 2 peach who lived, i guess, done one of them. it's a unique place that's just behind the backs. so the parking people up end to the doctor, a heavy rain full in 1963. when it was raining and doug as done for 3 straight months, most a bridge down below was washed away. so gum suitable was left without a bridge for several years. you were the most, i am by children. begin to ask the parents to come down from the village. it would be great, of course to revive gums with one it with

a very interesting village because there's been no language. we call it ramos, or i'm sort of looks chest in the mountains and it's never been captured. it's fascinating. so we're from brooklyn. there are many villages like that, housing can nipples of what you want, like it's a little bit unfortunately, every year goes to villages appear in doug as done because people are leaving this apartment. i hope so. the next. so that will be a program and over a public to present of the mountains and support the highlanders who still lived. so it's not so easy to live here, but it really is amazing or is, this is our land. our roots are here and what kind of co, a secular cause there was no other place in the world that we'd rather be coordinate, you kind of stuff with them because we've that and which i want to thank you for an incredibly interesting conversation and for helping us get a better feel for what august done is all about. appreciate it so much. thank you. i'm glad you've enjoyed it. so i hope you've attempted to august down again and again. we'll always be happy to have you here. your a cool knock. now,

as we say in the mountains, look, my home is your home. the home belongs to the one who lives in it. you're welcome to doug is done, especially about conditioning for the fish. what's your dangerous beauty to words describes the landscape of doug a stock? perhaps? no one in bodies that idea more. it's an ever eccentric camille. my myers, he and his family have been practicing the art of types of booking for 6 generations. camille. hi. oh, i see in a 2nd. so it's what's right tom. well, camille, thank you for coming down to see me because there's no way that you are going to catch me up there on the rope. so thank you for that. um,

let's get right into it. why is your village specifically known for type, wrote walk and how did this art evolve? and why do you do it? not civil village didn't invent type, right? walking or anything like that, but at some point many people started practicing this for most of they saw it and then expose it around the world or says people from my village have worked with many sexes by see and abroad. was it not how well a village came to be known as the capital of type, right? walking, they mostly did that to any living with intake and we know it's dangerous through all of the risk. what's in it for you specifically? why do you personally do this? this has become my purpose in life, i tradition and i consider it my duty deposited onto the next generation to improve it. i wanted to become old modem and make it safe for as well. but it's, do you ever get scared? i mean, what's going through your mind when you're up there on the rope, and like what do you feel is always scary on the right for everyone gets scanned, this is normal. you just need to relax and be aware that there is danger and there

is fearful i use the safety harness. i know it's safe and i tried to keep my fair in check. i find you more, you train the easier it gets. this was you who to this of what, and we know that there is a lot of physical work in what you do. i mean it, it takes a sportsman to be able to have that type of control over your body. is it all about your talent and what you can do physically or is there a special mindset that you have to get into physically, anyone can walk and type, right? my mass of what that range of weights was that there are different varieties of this slack line trick line, borderline, etc. right? some young type right? well, because do tricks with those who are afraid of heights can do loan line walks very the right ways loan god, but it's low. you don't have to get up so high so everyone can find something that works for them. that was, that was that, is that and final question is, we know this is your job. we know you're very good at what you do. does it bring you joy? that yes he does. i love what i do, but it's tough boy,

the times i've thought about quitting, but those thoughts are behind me. now there's, i have a goal and i'm going to achieve it to the rest of my main task is to make this a safe environment for the next generation. so they can learn and train. i very my performances and introduce new tricks to get them interested. i want to make type, right, walking popular in to thank you for an interesting conversation. i just wanna say stay safe. c as you make your way through the august time, you will discover, each region is known for its own unique arts and traditions. since at least the 4th century b. c, the people of the top us that runs key area have been making world the same as carpets by hand. and now they've told him of his going a step further to preserve the ancient arts using only natural colors the. this is really cool to be able to be here where they're actually making these carpets. so as i understand these

a carpet started off, it's something more practical to keep homes warm and, but now they're incredible art form. how did this transition happen? they loved ones that was the, these designs have evolved. it wouldn't be like in the old days, up to 2000 years ago. and the conference will produce a purely practical purposes to keep your home or some of those things that they to accomplish. wave is turned into real losses for the 1st people a bid, which would now be called designers. but those own design has created these unique patterns and carpets. so this is beverly to when you've gotten a different, i know that it's more than just beautiful designs that we have here in these carpets. but there's more of a code inside them as well. can you translate some of what this code means in some of these carpets for me that is facing uh yes, it's true. you could say those history and these rugs, the story of the design. so every day objects, one of the things that surround people in that daily lives with me at the board of that was reflected in compet happened. this was ready to

d. those things were connected with the culture of a specific area. the square footage region had its own designs, which one named off to the regions i'm villages or towns where those carpets were made to be able to deal with that credit. or i understand you're gonna show us your uh, a workshop. we actually make the colors. i can't wait to see that with the it will be good to show you our work because the and the art is passed down from generation to generation, with each individual learning their role from an early age. so this is an amazing experience to be able to watch you work. i can tell you that my mom would be fascinated with this experience right now. so this is a pretty big rug. how long does it take to make a rug, besides, or even just a normal size rug, a smart thing to use it? if there's no other work to be done, it's obviously a quicker process. the. so if she only focuses on the carpet, she can, we've just about one square meter per month or the last name yet. that's stuff good

. very cool. and how many people does it take to work on one specific rug? which is sort of a big greg like that needs about 5 leavers working 6 to 8 hours per day and i should spit on us. it's not that can you? there's no formal education for carpet and weavers. when girls are 6 to 8 years old, they are taught how to make not sweet. these are simply movements like this. and then overtime a girl learns this crap from her mother or grandmother of again, there's no formal training, it's a gradual process. let's 1st of snots and pattern making. then the threatening of left overtime. any girl can learn will just every weaver choose is a design herself to colors are selected intuitively based on how they look together when you're leaving. and you see this beautiful pattern emergent. it's very pleasing yes, and when the carpet is finished, your neighbors and relatives usually come to take a look. i will made rug is a source of pride at a good and best. well, thank you for taking the time to show me. it is fascinating. the semester about the

so this is a carpet that you've been working on. it's almost finished. lots of intricate designs. beautiful color is, but to me it tells a story. so tell me the story of what this carpet says appears. this is a dragon. dragon means power and energy it though it stands for beauty, that absorbs everything. that's your body of the dragon. contains all these different elements which gave was the dragon's head. cooling over here is this body, arms and legs which the origin, but this is a highly unusual past. the typical of all culture and reflected in this rug with nashik was pretty slow to make you a copy like this, you need special colors. you should think it has some unusual hughes that this is rose. matter on this color comes from problems that only grow and douglas done that

you can't get this beautiful green shade anywhere else over us. the green is the symbol of the dragon, is very beautiful. you normally see it watching christie would see it. i'm surrounded by all of these yarns that are vibrant and rich in color. how exactly are they made? no sense. it's all these colors come from different pond. seeing you, i'm holding rose meant a room in the could see used to produce rent dies investments we make different shades of red from rose. my, the only because my doing black comes from will not with harry caught me doing different plans who used to make different colors. interesting to deal with are housing. if you have time. do you feel like a kid with the coloring book in some crowns when you're in, they're making these colors? what's going to your mind when you're actually doing the process? okay, there are some that are kind of, it certainly isn't in through learning process. if you do is making a di depends on many things, including your mood, to look at on these reds page, rick ranch and other hughes. the exec shade depends on minute factors for shame.

and so it does, and so on and captivate you just truly like a child was evaluated. so you're gonna keep this a good yourself. are you gonna tell me the secrets so that i can help make some colors as well? yeah my, what present if i could share doesn't secrets, but there are many, hundreds and thousands based is because aging, each color is an odd says which leads you to discover new secrets. therefore the no so i can share any secret with you. no problem. good luck with your your, that'd be my guest. i mean, yet. thank you very much. it's been a pleasure of seeing where you work. thanks sarah. pacific. c moving deeper into the caucasus mountains, you will find the village of coupon sheet, well known for a few 1000 years for the exquisite silversmith. russell could tell you if is one of them. it is an incredibly rare experience for someone to come inside the workshop and see where the magic happens. so thank you

for this and honor. for me, i have to ask because the technology that is used to make this beautiful jewelry dates back thousands of years or how have you preserved it? how does it stay the same for so long stick? the combined to jewelry is always preserved as cool heat because the ornaments the designs familiar, they remain pretty consistent for a 1000 years. well, you mentioned in combustion in the history here. i'm interested in how this one specific place became famous for jewelry. and what's your story, how did you get involved this many legends about persian all french influence is sometimes people, quote, french or francs on schools. i mean, the idea being with some foreigners specialty or in the mountains, but i started making weaponry and those anymore. but these are just missed them. unfortunately, it was no historical data about how it all began and what we know about 6 or 7 generations of our families to me, and that's always been a jewelers amongst us. right up until this day is that something that has taught

and such an early age like? is it a skill like reading and writing? i mean, the work is so interesting, the rest of the day, oh, children have him as a business cup on silver as the choice because they hammer away trying to make stuff. so they acquire these skills before they learn how to walk. and i look through as they get older, they see them making something beautiful and they see them helping visits. and so these family traditions, i'm family family is preserved, see me and they used to sing this and develop a so as an inclination. and yeah, it's like when they start school, that's when we begin teaching them the process great on woods, missed and just as they learn to right, they then the grammar. but she might as well which is close to are they just beautiful designs or do they tell a story? what, what do they mean? can you tell me what is behind the meaning of these different beautiful designs in the jewelry? this of my mental and some sort of really all designs would devise from nature

inspired by file is etc. so those natural shades would be modified, them broken down into a different shape. so bring out the beauty of one of these, 2 little offices has his own imagination as his own little quick. so just be meant that every person is different to the even in a sort bracelet like this. so you can see that each link is different from the rest because it's all her mates on the that must it up because i always say the shop employee of sold into every pc create called as well as over knowledge, even kimberly, to or over the decades disruptive thinking for an interesting conversation and a very fascinating experience pressure because she looked. c just as fascinating as the hardest treat income, but she is the traditional culture, still respected in the daily life of people here. this is an incredible space. thanks for taking the time to speak to me here. so it's my understanding that women

help out in the process of making the jewelry here as well, in terms of blackening and in other ways. are there certain parts of the jobs that are only for women and only from and talk to me a little bit about time of the most nation? yes. all the men do. how? demanded judy making help. the blind enamel was blackening with additional engraving. so there in holding some of the processes, a lot of a man handled tasks to do with assembling, polishing the nation and craving for which is a challenging process. i bought from all the silver work. i mean, most women also do embroidery conversation a short for me. i to wish of the way. if you don't mind me asking, i see that you're wearing a beautiful head scarf. and my understanding is that this means something here and come back to you is that a woman bring headscarf? it tells a story. so what does this mean? can you tell me about that? no, yes, she thought traditional debauch ahead scoff. it's called cause because i'm very,

a married woman is causes ation. so i cause tells you the marital status of which where you all mothers look grandmothers giving us and great grandmothers born these kosky. we put them on to live in the house. i'm losing the least cause i am voided by the women of culture themselves. partnership, oklahoma, let me show you my collection of, of some of this cause of so married in san for unmarried government, out of issue this one is made in scoffing you some which you can tell by sort of tassels you had a band with some kind of small patterns, we'll see ya, those us cause that i, where the f remarried, you might know. what am i able to use of look at this is the inverter. i'm working on right now. well, i just started with my pest control or design and then begin to embroider. it's very beautiful. this is something you're working on right now. now, yes, i'm working on it now. incredibly interesting. thank you very much for taking the time to show us part of your culture. it incredibly fascinating. look at the

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