The Maasai are a traditional herding people who have no electricity or running water and live in huts made of dung.

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Social science popularizer Malcolm Gladwell explains in his book Outliers, that people descended from herding cultures such as those that flourished in the Middle East depended for their safety upon the creation and maintenance of public reputations for violence.

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People increasingly took up subsistence herding to escape joblessness in the towns.

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Known commonly as the ski-doo, it first appeared on the Finnish market in 1962 and the Sami people used them to revolutionise reindeer herding.

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Expect to meet the semi-nomadic Merak people, who hold deep animist beliefs and make their living herding sheep.

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Their new 12-day trek is not a cushy luxury trip, but rather a high-altitude hiking adventure and a cultural adventure, since guests spend their nights camping in tents or staying in the homes of local villagers, including the semi-nomadic Merak people, who hold deep animist beliefs and make their living herding sheep.

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