Unusual Honor

I dont know what to say. A friend has just named a hotel after one of my books! Khanat Chiryazdan, my old guide and the proprietor of Blue Wolf Travel, IMAO the most interesting travel service in Mongolia (especially if you like eagles), has built a hotel in Olgii city and called it…. “Eagle Dreams …

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Interactive Olgii

Belatedly (because of TOO MUCH GOING ON the past few weeks), an unusual interactive video of eagle hunters in Olgii, courtesy of local reader James Cherry. If I were to guess,. I would say it is on the hill on the east side of valley, south of Olgii town, near where Manai used to live… …

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One more quote

From TRD, a Mongolian maxim : “While your father is alive make as many friends as you can, while your horse is alive, see as many lands as you can.”    I get the second at least. But so many sayings are now attributed to Mongolia. One I actually heard there more than once over …

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Hereditary cool?

My late friend Aralbai of Bayan Olgii was sometimes known as “The Coolest Man in the World”,  on the strength of this sort of… call it an Internet poster made (not by us) of him: Here he is in younger days, with his son in 1997 on our first expedition. He was a dedicated hunter, …

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The Real Indy

Paleoblog reminds us that it is Roy Chapman Andrews’ birthday. (HT Walter Hingley, once again). Naturalist, intrepid explorer, bone digger, hunter (he shot a Mannlicher- Schonauer 1903 carbine like mine, Savage Model 99’s, and Savage bolt actions in .250- 3000), writer, self- promoter, and sometime director of the American Museum of Natural History, he was …

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