Drakensberg

San people started to paint “richly embellished” eland at sites in the Drakensberg Mountains during a period of cooler climate that began around 1500 B.C.E., when the animals—previously a staple food source—were becoming more scarce, as Challis and anthropologist Brian Stewart of the University of Michigan wrote in a 2023 paper.

Lesotho is a small land-locked mountain kingdom that is ringfenced by South African Drakensberg range on all sides.

Impala run through the thorn bush, ibis fly above the lake and lightning forks over the horizon as a storm rolls in from the Drakensberg mountains.

Thabane was born on May 28, 1939, in what was then Britain’s colony of Basutoland, composed of mountains running along South Africa’s Drakensberg range.

He says that he saw his first painting when he was nine or ten years old, in the Drakensberg mountains, where his family hiked on vacation, sleeping in caves.