Photo of the Day 440

Lone Horseman, Sukhe Bator Somon, Mongolia, 1985

Photograph by Dean Conger

In the semi-nomadic cultures of Mongolia, the horse is as essential now as it once was in the American West. In addition to transportation, horses are used to produce airag, a beverage made from fermented mare's milk.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Time Catches up with Mongolia," February 1985, National Geographic magazine)