Orjan is a Swedish PhD student who bought a one-way ticket to Mongolia to work at the base camp of our long-term research project. These are his adventures…
At about noon, Kim and Namshur all left the camp. Mije is driving and Oyuna came along. She has been complaining about a bad tooth ache for a while and on the 13th she asked if I could give her some of the drugs we use for the snow leopards and pull the tooth…
I don’t want to be rude but I’m not too keen on killing the cook either so I said no. Though I offered her to go to Dalandzadgad with the crew to visit a dentist instead and she took the offer. I think that dentist and blacksmith is the same thing out here and there is probably not much hope of getting any other pain relief than Vodka. I would hesitate to go to the dentist too under these conditions.