That’s why “this salt tradition developed in both Svaneti, Georgia, and Uttarakhand, India, two mountainous places where salt had to be carried over difficult terrain”, explains Naomi Duguid ...

After a night of snowfall—the first of the season in Svaneti, a region high in Georgia ... a burly former boxer with a salt-and-pepper beard, leads the men—and one recalcitrant bull ...