A mountain, part of the Amne Machin range, in China's western Qinghai province, June 9, 2019. FREUTERS/Aly Song
AMNE MACHIN RANGE, China (Reuters) - For Ma Junxiao, an ethnic Hui Muslim farmer from remote western China, the daily climb up sheer mountain slopes to look for a tiny fungus is vital to his family's subsistence.
Each spring, Ma travels more than 600 kilometres (370 miles) by road from his impoverished village in Gansu to a jumbled knot of nameless peaks in neighbouring Qinghai province.
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