Hunter's Moon by Philip Caputo

Author:Philip Caputo
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.

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His “swim” took more out of him than any of us realized. He’s listless and subdued, spending the rest of the morning in the tent. Recalling Elise’s tale of the man who had seemed to recover from exposure only to die in his sleeping bag, I check in on Trey a couple of times.

Rick and Elise leave to take more photographs and return in midafternoon. We lunch on caribou steaks, seasoned with pepper and fried in butter. Rick shows Trey an image on his Nikon—it’s the ram, which he captured with a 300-millimeter lens as it stood this morning on the ridgetop, facing the camera, great horns curled in a natural coronation. It looks as if it’s posing for its portrait.

“I’ll make a print, send it to you,” he promises. “Way better than a wall hanger. You’ve got a story to tell.”

Trey’s glance rises from the view-screen and roams over our faces.

“Thanks … Y’know…”

“No problem. Not like I’ll have to make prints in a darkroom like in the olden days.”

“No … I mean … all of you … thanks for, y’know, saving my life.”

Rick pauses to peel the backing off a piece of nicotine gum. “Sure,” he says. “You can thank us by doing something serious with it.”

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