It’s been almost three months since I returned from Mongolia. In that time I have been working on what feels like a mini investigation.
I tracked down interviewees from five different countries, ploughed through PhD papers and tried to make sense of a tradition that is steeped in thousands-of-years of history.
The story about Kazakh Eagle Families is complex and the west has tried to simplify it through sloppy journalism, a Hollywood film that was made with factually incorrect marketing at the time, and tourist blogs that repeat these same narratives over and over.
If you want the truth you have to be prepared to dig, ask difficult questions and listen, really listen. I hope I’ve done justice to this story.
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/longform/2023/9/21/mongolia-eagle-huntresses
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Viv
September 21, 2023
Really enjoyed your article. For a few minutes I was no longer in my office but many thousands of miles away high up in the mountains.