Treks

For hours every day and often before sunrise, Ghouate and other women from nearby villages would walk 5 km to fetch water from open wells, with girls pulled out of school to help and at risk of violence on the lonely treks.

The state of Texas is associated around the world with the image of cowboys mounted on horses herding longhorn cattle, but at least one Texan prefers to mount a different sort of animal when he goes on treks through his state's wilder desert regions.