Stumped.

He herds water buffalo in the Himalayas. All day, every day. Has for years. He's also deaf and mute. He stood over us for hours - as we worked on the antennae, as we tested the laptop connection, as we checked our respective email accounts. Despite the little hat, the sockless galoshes, the thick, weathered skin, he was not the strange one on that cold mountain ridge. We were the strange ones. We were in his world, and we were weird.