Searching for the Snow Leopard by Shavaun Mara Kidd

Author:Shavaun Mara Kidd
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
Published: 2020-09-16T16:00:00+00:00

When they had spent more than two and a half hours apart, the cub suddenly appeared next to his sister, whom he greeted with head rubs. We breathed a sigh of relief. It did not seem to have been an easy task for the cub to find them in the immense landscape of mountains and snowy canyons.

For the remainder of the afternoon, the two cubs played games of chase and rolled in the snow as their mother guided them down the valley. It was apparent that she wanted to leave the area, probably in search of food, as we hadn’t seen any ungulates that would serve as prey for the snow leopard and her grown cubs.

As the sun went down behind the mountains, the temperature fell, and the snowy landscape began to turn a shade of blue. Undeterred by the approaching night, the snow leopard family continued to descend down one side of the canyon as we followed on the opposite side, attempting to keep up. We knew we should return to the village before it was completely dark, but our guide Tenzin alerted us: “Look, there is a group of blue sheep. Let’s wait a little longer.”

Suddenly, the snow leopard mother shot out, chasing one of the sheep. It was almost dark, and through the view-finder of my camera I could hardly see what was happening. But Tenzin yelled at me, “Shoot, shoot!” I quickly pressed the camera shutter, without knowing what I was shooting. But in the imperfect and grainy image, the success of the pursuit was visible. It was not a good photo, but it was an incredible experience.

The next day, we would go out once again to the mountain to follow the life of this special family.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.