Discover the Ladakhi Yak

Welcome to Ladakhi Yak, where we celebrate the unique health benefits of seabuckthorn berry products, inspired by the beauty of our happy yak mascot.

Our Brand Story

Ladakhi Yak: The Untold Story of Himalayan Liquid Gold

In the frozen silence of Ladakh’s high passes, where oxygen thins and glaciers weep, grows a berry so potent that Himalayan healers called it "Drembu" – the soul’s sunlight.

This is where our story begins.

My first memory is the sting of seabuckthorn juice on cracked lips as my grandmother whispered: "Child, this is why our women glow at 70 while city faces wither at 40." For generations, our family guarded these wild bushes like sacred texts – harvesting only what the mountain permitted, fermenting oils in yak-skin pouches under the winter moon.

Then came the trucks.

By 2010, "Himalayan" had become a marketing sticker slapped on factory-mixed oils. I watched foreign companies pay villagers pennies for berries, then sell diluted bottles for thousands. The worst part? They’d never even touched Ladakhi soil.

So we fought back.

Ladakhi Yak was born in a stone hut at 14,000 ft with three rules:

1. No middlemen – We work directly with Changthang nomads

2. No shortcuts – Every berry handpicked at -20°C (when nutrients peak)

3. No lies – Third-party tested or it doesn’t leave our hands

Today, when you open our bottle, you’re tasting what German researchers found in Khardung La – 190+ bioactive compounds untouched by civilization, the same that kept my grandmother’s skin luminous through 80 Ladakhi winters.

This isn’t wellness. This is time-travel in a bottle – the closest thing to drinking liquid Himalayas.

For the few who know the difference,
Tashi Angmo
Daughter of Nubra Valley