In Search of the Great Tibetan Sheep
Written by admin on March 3, 2010 – 2:29 pm -Imprint on frozen ground to warm up, we waited patiently for the sun on a valley in the early morning of the proposed Khem GYA-Miru Wildlife Sanctuary. I was in the vision of a crackling fire, a pint of beer. The temperature had dropped to 23 oC, the night before Khem windy in the valley at 4500 m. Tibetan argali, the world's largest sheep is what we are after.
During the day, the sun warmed the valley pleasant, and Thinles,Morup, my assistant and I have the ridge above our camp rose to find argali in vain. There were about argali. Tonight we played together with the shepherds and told them of our research. They have informed us that the winter the animals move in the neighboring valley called Tsabra.
But we decided to search the area more to give. The next morning we went to Tisaling. Thinles Morup and wake up early, and I reluctantly doubled over in my sleeping bag. It was still darkoutside, when we struggled out of our tent. The sky is overcast and the wind biting cold penetrated through the thick winter clothes. After walking for once have shone a little ', and away to the east I could see the dark shadows of towering mountains silhouetted against the morning sky.
As we slogged on manure-strewn street, a yak ran down a Sidedal. Soon there was a second to run faster, there was something wrong. I took my binoculars and scanned the tracks dunes. There wasthree wolves in search of breakfast! Perhaps the wolves themselves, whose pain we heard the screaming last night. Stalking closer, we have built behind a bush and Siberia stretched for a taste of this predator-prey interactions.
The wolves began to bite in his legs as he ran back the yak down. Morup was stunned, and a greater sympathy for the suffering, yaks, and drove the wolves, who left the cave alone. Soon, snowflakes turned down. Yak limping woundedCamp Khem, where his owner put into deep sleep! And we continued to walk.
The slope of the Kumur had knee deep snow. Morup and the snow plow could cut deep to show. By the time that over my hands and face were caused by the cold wind has reached lethargy. The landscape in a sea of snowy peaks stretching endlessly to the east, but comforted me. Sorry could not endure and stay longer, because the wind was howling and the snow was a dazzlingBlizzard.
When it comes to frozen flow Mandal Chan, we have our mini-stove and a kettle for tea and pasta Maggie. Morup fumbled in the snow and get a stone on ice to break water, but the ground is not frozen ruthless sparked some stones. But tablespoons of pasta there are often too long and slurped. If the dough smoking, drinking a golden eagle got his head down and passed.
Fortunately, the snow eased soon. E 'was already 1200 hoursWhen we finished our breakfast-cum-dining room, so we wandered back as another drag on our path was. The ascent of Mandal Chan harder than we expected. In any case, we Tisaling in time, but for our sheep there was also pain.
Therefore, the next afternoon, we moved to Tsabra basin, where we were greeted by a flock of thirty argali. What a comment! Over the coming months, he ran with this sheep elegant. This has not beenMany of these mountains that enchanted me, every moment spent there was a total attention and no remorse.
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