![]() Live at highest altitudes for any cat on earth – to 5000 metres. Longest tail of any cat to protect in freezing cold and give balance on steep cliffs. I’ve been in email contact with Sy and she’s shared her thrilling account of the Mongolia trip searching for snow leopards for the book here. ![]() For me those many years ago finding poop was so exciting, at least we knew the cats were there even if we didn’t see them! Along with Tom (who Sy calls the Professor of Poop), they do however find lots of scat (also known as snow leopard poop). Like my own snow leopard conservation journey in northern India (Ladakh) ten years ago, Sy and Nic didn’t see any of the rare and illusive cats. There are stunning photographs by Nic throughout. Readers will also be stunned by how much perseverance it takes to research and protect this endangered, little-understood species. We learn about local customs of the nomadic herders, other local wildlife like the desert hedgehog and the story of dinosaur finds in the Gobi desert made by adventurers in the 1920’s and 1930’s. With a dazzling as-it-happens narrative and spectacular photographs, readers, young and old, will be fascinated as they discover why these mysterious cats are called ghosts of the mountain. Photo Nic Bishop.Īs well as the story of this snow leopard conservation project, the book covers the history of the region with stories about Genghis Khan who ruled here hundreds of years ago. ![]() Sy scrambling through extreme terrain in Mongolia. ![]()
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