I had resisted attending the sky burial.

But more important is a feeling that the sky burial fits in with the isolation and strangeness of the setting.

Schäfer observed Tibetan rituals, including sky burials (he even bought some human skulls).

Tibetans feel very strongly about sky burial.

If vultures are fair game, who is going to do sky burial?

Lobsang, the monk who performed this sky burial, tied a burlap bag around his waist like an apron.

This is not a unified practice; in Tibet, for instance, the body is given a sky burial and left on a mountain top.

From there we walked up to the "sky burial" site.

Thus, the function of the sky burial is simply to dispose of the remains.

Advice on where to go (ie where isn't currently being used as grazing pastures or for sky burials) should be sought from locals.