Kumiss to boots.
Mordraut Freyulf
mordraut at moritu.com
Mon Jul 10 05:50:59 PDT 1995
Mikjal Annarbjorn writes >
>Actually, Mongolia has a climate much like the Canadian plains, being
>on about the same latitude. Remember, this is the place where they
>wear felt shoes during the winter, which are about the only kind that
>won't freeze and break in the extreme cold.
Actually, not everyone there wears felt shoes during the winter.
Ulaanbaator is a *reasonably* mordern city. Also, in period they did wear
leather boots as well.
I know of at least one case, second hand, of a Mongolian who wears
Reboks year round. Of course he has cut uppers off of traditional mongol
boots, and attached them so that he does not stand out in the countryside.
>I believe that the Russian army still maintains a brigade of Mongol
>horse soldiers, who are trained for conducting winter operations in
>conditions where mechanical weapons (like tanks, APC and most modern
>rifles) stop working due to extreme cold.
I can understand that, although the Russian tanks themselves are quite good
at working when all other tanks are frozen down.
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