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The Eagle Hunters |
| Section: CULTURE / PEOPLES |
| Author: Rebecca Schultz |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2007 |
| Size: 3,428 Words, 20,492 Characters |
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Until a decade ago, falconers around the globe lamented that Central Asian countries barred them from contact with the founding fathers of their sport. The political curtain has now been drawn aside, but nonetheless, so chilly are the winters and so remote the hunters’ homes that few people witness eagle hunting in its original context. In winter 2005, photographer Philipp Engelhorn and I donned all the polar fleeces we could muster and headed out to China’s Xinjiang Province. Despite our background research, we did not imagine we’d face temperatures as low as negative 40 degrees, or roads covered with more than a meter (3') of snow and navigable only by horse-drawn sleigh.
At the northernmost point of Xinjiang is Friendship Peak, the summit where the borders of Russia, Kazakhstan, Mon...
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...odents in the immediate vicinity of a hunter’s home. These traps supply the meat required daily to maintain a strong and well-trained eagle. “If all we wanted was to catch a fox, we’d just use a trap--traps don’t fuss so much,” one hunter joked.
This article appeared in the January/February 2005 issue of Saudi Aramco World. Copyright © 2006 Aramco Services Company. All Rights Reserved.
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