A camel parade is held in the Gobi Desert in southern Mongolia on Feb. 2, 2025.

But Caramel, the eldest Bactrian camel at the Highland Wildlife Park in the Cairngorms, died this week at the age of 21.

Nomads have consumed camel's milk for millennia, relying on it to sustain them while they traversed the deserts of the Middle East, Africa and Mongolia. These herders traditionally keep the camels ...

Gearing up: For a project to photograph the world’s extreme deserts, I wanted to visit the giant sand dunes in China’s Inner Mongolia. The only way into the Gobi is on foot or by camel.