Charging up the hill

I was struck by a picture in today's Guardian of Chinese horse policemen charging up a hill to keep some remote community posted about the status of the coronavirus. For all the world like a Chinese re-tread of some John Wayne movie.

Google failed to find anything like it, although it correctly identified the snow and came up with a lot of snowy images with a very similar colour mix. While I failed to find the picture on the Guardian website, and I have had to be content with my mobile's take on the hard copy and a very inferior version of what seems to be the same picture taken from the Daily Mail website - although to be fair to them, they may have degraded the public domain version of the digital image for commercial reasons.

I associated to an observation from one of Scott's expeditions to the Antarctic (more than a hundred years ago now) to the effect that common colds and such like ailments couldn't take the polar cold and that the expedition in question was more or less free of them. Perhaps coronavirus doesn't play the same game.