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In search of the snow leopard
| Posted on: Friday, February 12, 2010 |
Category: Cultures |
She wasn't visible at first. Then she moved, rippling silently down a gully of rocks and padding straight up to us. This was Uncia uncia, the snow leopard, one of the most endangered species on earth, and one of the most beautiful.
Arctic wilderness under threat
| Posted on: Wednesday, December 30, 2009 |
Category: Cultures |
In the autumn of 1921 a Norwegian trapper called Georg Nilsen went polar bear hunting on the island of Spitsbergen, high in the Arctic Circle. He promised he would be back for Christmas, but he was never seen alive again.
Trekking the high road in Nepal
| Posted on: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 |
Category: Cultures |
On July 13, 2008 a 34-year-old Frenchman called Olivier Glaise shouldered his backpack and walked out of the village of Jomsom, in the Annapurna region of the Nepalese Himalayas. He was sighted five days later on a high pass to the north but since then has not been seen.
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