When moving camp, first all the chums are disassembled and put onto sledges. Then the herders lasso the specially trained transport reindeer they need for the sledges. The men drive the herd off on the sledges and the women and children begin the migration on argysh, the whole caravan snaking over the landscape in a column up to 2km long. When they find a suitable place to set up camp, usually on raised land with a large flat area nearby where the herd can be easily rounded up, the head of the group sticks his khorei into the ground at the place where he wants the centre of his chum to be. Everyone then starts unloading sledges, unharnessing reindeer and setting up chums, with the head’s chum always on the far right as viewed from behind and the entrances of all chums facing the same way.