Mongolia’s Unforgiving Freeze – Lens

Mongolia’s Unforgiving Freeze

Paula Bronstein wanted to see what life was like in Mongolia as a harsh winter reached an end. James Estrin asked her what she found.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/03/showcase-170/

I really wanted to go to a place where few other journalists were going and where I thought I could tell my own version of the story. It had been 10 years since I had been there. And that’s what I told my editors. I said: “You know, I am not going there to do one story. I am going to do, like, four to five stories.” And that’s what I did.