Comment by Valentino Martinez on April 14, 2014 at 9:23pm

Photo credit:  Asher Svidensky

And I thought a Mongolian Dude hunting on horseback w/Eagle was cool...then I see this thirteen year-old eagle huntress who travels on horseback and gets to mountain tops to let loose her Eagle to hunt.  She redefines the term COOL in hunting.

The pictures are awesome...

By William Kremer BBC World Service

Most children, Asher Svidensky says, are a little intimidated by golden eagles. Kazakh boys in western Mongolia start learning how to use the huge birds to hunt for foxes and hares at the age of 13, when the eagles sit heavily on their undeveloped arms. Svidensky, a photographer and travel writer, shot five boys learning the skill - and he also photographed Ashol-Pan.

"To see her with the eagle was amazing," he recalls. She was a lot more comfortable with it, a lot more powerful with it and a lot more at ease with it."

 http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26969150?ocid=socialflow_twitter

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